[1][2][3] In 2007 HeavyShield narrated and acted in "Legends of Kainai: Stories from the Blackfoot People of Southern Alberta" produced by the CBC.

[1] My art is a reflection of my environment and personal history as lived in the physical geography of southern Alberta with its prairie grass, river coulees, and wind and an upbringing in the Kainai community (with a childhood stint in the Catholic residential school system).

The past, present and imagined make up the vocabulary used to realize my thoughts and ideas; responses and references to the body, land, language.

– Faye HeavyShield[4]Upon entering the Alberta College of Art she began to explore artistic styles finding herself drawn to working with her hands through sculpture and large-scale installations.

[1] These works often display multiples, whether the forms in body of land, boats, small squares of cloth, or other delicate and often hand-created objects.

In 2004 she created kuto'iis ("blood"), which consists of hundreds of small knotted balls of cloth attached to a wall, painted in red ochre.

Studying the museums classification systems of these objects, she noticed they were stored in rows of drawers or on shelves and often with only small catalog tags.

One piece that came from this study is hours (2007); a book, with no text, consisting of twelve bound pages of woven white seed beads.

This piece is the first time that HeavyShield utilized her own words (eventually bringing her poetry into future work) with framed black and white panels over each pair of shoes, representing "everywoman".