Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Based on the exhibition Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, the focus is on artists from the Southwest and Oklahoma.
Virtual exhibition features portrayals of traditional cultures of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Nuxalk, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Salish peoples.