Exhibition was part of the Mendel Art Gallery's Post-Colonial Landscape series, featured 60 paintings from 1960-1990 selected from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery's retrospective The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.
Art History, vol. 34, no. 3, June 19, 2011, pp. 536-561
Description
Discusses three influences on his work; his teacher, Carlo Altenburg, an abstract painter, Dene methods of mapping trails, and the effect of being isolated from traditional lands.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 36-38
Description
Exhibition review from the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Virginia, 1993-1994.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 36.
Speaker uses examples from the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia to illustrate talk which focuses on federal government's involvement in creation and marketing of Inuit art.
Duration: 1:13:11.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Fall/Winter, 2011, pp. 14-20
Description
Looks at the work of artists Arnaqu Ashevak, Ohotaq Mikkigak, Suvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Tim Pitsiulak, and Jutai Toonoo.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 14.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, pp. 1-2
Description
Description of a travelling art exhibit, The Recognition of Place: Strength & Endurance of Aboriginal Women, which features eight female leaders, some posthumously.
Article found on pages 1-2.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 31-34
Description
Exhibition reviews of:
The Human Face, March 20 to November 13, 1994.
Matisse: The Inuit Face, April 24 to June 19, 1994.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 31.
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.
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.
Proceedings from the second Virtual Roundtable on First Nation Citizenship held June 20, 2011. Roundtable featured discussion on First Nation citizenship, identity, and Nationhood.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 25th Anniversary Issue, Spring, 2011, pp. 14-17
Description
Brief article outlines common themes represented in Inuit art and cites articles found in the magazine which deal with the topic.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 14.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer, 2011, pp. 37-39
Description
Reviews exhibition catalogue Inuit Prints by Norman Vorano, with Asato Ikeda, Ming Tiampo, and Kananginak Pootoogook.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review scroll to p. 37.
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.
BC Studies, no. 172, Winter, 2011/2012, pp. 134-135
Description
Book review of 3 books:The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill.
Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life by Morris Bate, Jim Brown.
Working With Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 134.
Discusses the variety of influences present in such works as the illustrated book Red: A Haida Manga
Excerpt from Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast edited by Aaron Glass.
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.