Terreane Derrick is a community-minded creative. She sees the arts as an intricate part of sharing moments. Her art practice is life-driven expressions with capturing presence, breathing art into being, regardless of the situation. Terreane expresses herself by putting pen to the paper page through film, poetry, sketching, writing, storytelling, or simply for the enjoyment of it. Terreane currently lives and creates on the unceded Coast Salish territories. Her motivation is threaded through her upbringing and community engagement with disability in the arts, Indigenous arts and culture, and self-governance as a literal way of being.