Whispering Wind, vol. 43, no. 6, Issue 298, August 2015, pp. 10-14
Description
Describes various baskets featuring Tathouke birchbark baskets made by Daisy Demientieff, a famous Alaskan craftsman and her daughter Judy Swanson. Includes photographs.
To Honor & Comfort Native Quilting Traditions (An Educational Curriculum)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shawn Termin
Description
Guide aimed at middle year students is divided into four sections: Strengthening Community, Design Tells a Story, Expressions of Honor, and Origins of Native Quilting. Discusses eight individual quilters (Aboriginal and Hawaiian): Mary Bighouse (Osage), Sheree "Peachy" Bonaparte (Mohawk), Alice Olsen Williams (Anishinabe), Nancy Crone Naranjo (Eastern Cherokee), Bernyce Courtney (Wasco-Tlingit), Harriet Soong (Native Hawaiian), Ollie Napesni (Rosebud Lakota), and Lula Red Cloud (Ogala Lakota).
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Website for Carey Newman's large-scale art installation, The Witness Blanket, which was created from objects gathered from the sites of residential schools across Canada.
Contains trailer for documentary, background to the project, full view of the work, links to media stories, and artist's statement and biography.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3-4, Nunutsiavut!, Fall/Winter, 2015, pp. 52-57
Description
Highlights the talents of three Inuit women artists whose life and work have made contributions to Labrador Inuit art history.
Entire issue on on pdf. To access article, scroll to page 52.