Luminary, no. 6, Visualizing Fantastika, Summer, 2015, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a superhero team storyline set in Northern Ontario which underscores how the characters can provide real-life negotiations of American, Canadian and Indigenous identity.
Material Culture Review, vol. 69, Spring, 2009, pp. 21-35
Description
Authors tested the recipes gathered by explorers, fur traders, and ethnographers for accurate colour and, after using quills to create similar patterns, resemblance to existing artifacts.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2015, pp. vii-ix
Description
Introductory article to the issue by new editor announcing an emphasis on Indigenous cover art and an, "Artist Statement" commentary by the cover artist.
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 3, June-July 2015, p. 19
Description
Contains a plea from the Hudson Bay Company Archives asking for help identifying people from thousands of photographs taken in northern Canadian communities from 1920 to 1960.
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.
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.
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.
Includes information gathered from three Indigenous Artist Circles, full-day focus group in 2012, and a province-wide survey conducted in 2014. Overall recommendations were: mentorship programs, access to cultural teachings, community building, business and entrepreneurial education, funding resources and more access to employment opportunities.
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
Border Crossings, vol. 34, no. 2, June-August 2015, pp. 78-82
Description
Discusses artist Rebecca Belmore's refusal to attend the "Walking with Our Sisters" exhibition due to the requirements of wearing a dress and smudging before entering in the context of tensions between traditionalist and secular artists and artworks, and Indigenous criticism of Indigenous culture.
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.
Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights.
Duration: 19:57.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 121-131
Description
Discusses the ethnographic exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis that included a group of Nootka and Kwakiutl cultural performers and artists, as well as a traditional native house, a canoe, and other artifacts.
Two part video presentation shows process of making "cup and pin" game from bone, leather, and metal wire. Cree and English.
Part 2
Total duration: 18:56.
Art Gallery of Ontario invited poets to create poems based on works of art. Hynes does a reading of the work she wrote in response to Belmore's installation piece Rising to the Occasion.
Duration: 6:01.