Discusses how Oscar Howe has created a liner abstract design concept that utilizes the formal elements of line, color and space to bridge the gap between traditional Indian values and the world of contemporary art.
Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 23-24
Description
Excerpts from James Houston's "Report of Purchases" from 1950. Houston, a representative of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, had been sent north to investigate the viability of training Inuit artisans to produce works which could be sold in the south.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1988, p. 36, 39
Description
Discusses Jim and Alma Houston's early involvement in production and marketing of Inuit art.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 27-29
Description
Discusses the initial phase of federal government involvement in the production and marketing of Inuit art.
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File contains 15 negatives showing people at the Prince Albert Indian and Metis Friendship Centre during its' twenty-fifth anniversary on June 16, 1988. The 15 scanned images show eleven negatives showing various people within the Friendship Centre building, and five negatives showing traditional dancers in front of the Prince Albert City Hall.
File contains 4 negatives from a celebration held to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Prince Albert Indian-Metis Friendship Centre. The celebration was held on July 7, 1988. The four scanned images include pictures of chuckwagon races.
File contains 4 negatives from a meeting of the Indian and Metis Saskatchewan Association of Local Northern Governments, presumably held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 12, 1988. Two scanned images show meeting participants at the conference table.
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 225-231
Description
Mixed media artist Tom GreyEyes talks about his art being political messages coming from the Indigenous perspective on colonialism, decolonization and protest.
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Magee Sherer
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Suitable for ages 12 and up.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2010, pp. 4-11
Description
Discusses artists' responses to the impact of residential schools and cultural assimilation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 22-31
Description
Discusses a sculpture competition and a subsequent exhibition, Eskimo Fantastic Art at the University of Manitoba in 1972.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 16-21
Description
Interview with artist who received an Appointed Companion to the Order of Canada medal in 1982.
Entire pdf on one issue. To access article, scroll to page 16.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 4-7
Description
Discusses the National Gallery of Canada's attitude towards acquiring and displaying Inuit art.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 28-30
Description
Discusses exhibition of the same name mounted at the Museum of Inuit Art, February 15 to June 30, 2010.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 28.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 54-55
Description
Comments on an art room named after the famed artist who has been featured on coins and stamps.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
Discusses a painting that appears to be a nineteenth-century Romantic landscape but is in fact a critique of that style of painting which deconstructs both colonial representations of Native Americans and colonialism’s westernization of Native gender and sexuality.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 31-33
Description
Brief discussion of exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 20 to December 5, 2010.
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American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 392-394
Description
Book review of: The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall, 1988, pp. 10-13
Description
Reviews the exhibition initiated by Aboriginals and mounted at the British Museum.
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