Discusses artist's controversial Indian paintings from 1960s and 70s in exhibition mounted by The National Museum of the American Indian; includes brief biography.
Presents several of the artist's late paintings (1880) that emerged as works of protest. From exhibition mounted at the National Gallery of Art, September 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009.
Image showing old cart ruts on the old trail running northwest from Prince Albert. The ruts run left to right, with trees in background. On back of photograph: "Ron Brown on the east of Briarlea Cairn."
Image showing old cart ruts on the old trail running northwest from Prince Albert. The ruts run from foreground to background at centre, with trees and a white car parked in background; summer scene. A man [Ron Brown] walks away from camera.
Distinctive Art of Haida Villages: The Northern Villages
Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
George MacDonald
Description
Discusses the architecture of houses and design styles of totems poles in the villages of Kaigani, Klinkwan, Kassan.
Part 1: Duration: 34:20.
Access to Part 2.
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.
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.
Canadian Diversity=Diversity&eaactue; canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, p. 42
Description
Brief description of project linking research results of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Well-Being Index (CBW) to images of living conditions.
Scroll down to page 42 to read article.
Comments on an appropriate approach to Aboriginal art and the issues of art production, art reception and representation with specific reference to Bush Tomato Dreaming by artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth.
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 47-49
Description
Discusses how American Indians employ visual methods of storytelling to comment on their world. Content based on exhibit from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture entitled, Comic Art Indigène:Where Comics and the Indigenous Meet
[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. 9, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 32-35
Description
Review of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, March 18 to September 11, 1994.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
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. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. [30]-35
Description
Exhibition review of: The Inuit Imagination at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 7, 1993 to March 13, 1994.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 30.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 1
Description
Highlights the accomplishments of Dennis and Melanie Jackson for their animated series, Wapos Bay, including a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.
Article located on page 1.