Arts

Interviews two artists that combine emerging technologies with their art and are also featured in the Kanata Indigenous Performance New and Digital Media Art Project.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2005.

"Dene - beadwork, necklaces by Rosann Naey". Location unknown.

Looks at Colleen Whiten's feminist art installation, Seducing the Receiver (1994-1995) in relation to the Paul Bernardo and John Crawford murder cases.

Book review of: The Dirt is Red Here edited by Margaret Dublin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 78.

Experiences of an Inuit artist performing at a Canadian food festival held in a Chinese restaurant in Mexico City.

Looks at ideology behind decisions about what constitutes authentic art and culture, and how it is viewed by Euro-Canadian society. Excerpt is chapter two of the author's master's thesis: Constructing Locality in Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Art.

Analyzes two "northern" documents beyond geographic boundaries, comparing: The Quest for North: Coppermine and The Idea of North, in terms of dialectical definitions and representations.

Looks at the need for a performing arts centre in Iqaluit.

Focuses on the challenges faced by libraries and other related institutions wishing to reproduce Australian Indigenous artwork.

Examines issue of authenticity and ethnic identity in Native American art and art education.

Discusses the relationship between Indigenous art and the Copyright Act, the problematic double standards in the act, and the affects of changes from primitive to fine art status.

Reports on a project that provides a culturally safe environment where women could recover from mental illnesses and substance abuse by employing art therapeutically.

Overview of projects, "Pipona Oskana Ka-asteki, Winter in Wascana", "Stories About Us", "Aboriginal Eye View", and "Our Future Looks Bright" by students of a pre-certification teacher fine arts education course at the First Nations University of Canada.

Website includes current and past issues of the online version of the news publication covering a wide range of topics including editorials by Winona Wheeler.

Economics, Finance and Marketing Thesis (Ph.D.)--Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, 2009.

Book review of: Edgar Heap of Birds by Bill Anthes.

Overview of articles in the issue.

Brief introductory article to the Indigenous themed issue.

Overview of a conference discussion held with contemporary artists, museum curators, anthropologists and historians regarding cultural artifact repatriation.

Media Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2015.

Discusses the enterprise sector in the community that relies on traditional local resources for food and materials to produce carvings, crafts and garments. Scroll down to read article.

Looks at the artist Oonark.

Book reviews of: Eskimokunstler, Ergebnisse Einer Reise in Alaska (Eskimo Artists, Resutls of a Voyage in Alaska) by Hans Himmelheber. Der Gefrorene Pfad, Mythen, Marchen Und Legenden De Eskimo ( The Frozen Path, Myths, Fairy-Tales and Legends of the Eskimo) by Hans Himmelheber.

Provides introduction to the research topic, methodology, and research questions. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 42, no. 1 (pp. 1-176).

Study examines the philosophy and practice of expressive therapies for trauma and links to Aboriginal culture, experiential learning, spirituality and creative arts.

A pictograph of a bull and a multi-legged creature at Proctor's Narrows. Kipahigan Lake, Sask.

Discusses the market for fake souvenirs and the effect on the Inuit community. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.

Examines the format used to deliver overall library orientation and instruction to this specific group of students and their instructors.

Focuses on the move from the Eurocentric approach to art history and anthropology to more material culture studies.

Summary report of the 2002 conference held under the auspices of Canadian Heritage "to raise awareness amongst key decision makers about Aboriginal artistic expression and lay the ground work for institutional change."

Questions about art and whether it should be referred to in the western sense or whether art is the repository and communicator of those with culturally specific knowledge.

Magazine providing access to current and archived issues including articles covering government, history, environmental issues, the arts and business.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2007.

Book reviews of: The Star-Man and Other Tales by Basil H. Johnston and Jonas George Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and George Littlechild Mythic Beings: Spirit of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt.

Focuses on applications for arts grants.

Book review of: First Peoples Hall by Andrea Laforet and David A. Morrison, curators at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, P.Q.

Describes the mission and goals, organization overview, enabling legislation and mandate, strategic context, and goals, strategies, measures and targets.

Discusses how the Cultural Preservation Endowment Program supports multiple cultural revitalization projects to preserve language, history, art, music, and dance.

Program booklet of a primarily Ontario native hand crafts exhibition in Toronto, ON. Short articles on the various aspects of hand crafts precede lists of exhibitors and their works. Hand crafts include basketry, beadwork, clothing, headdresses, dolls, footwear, snowshoes, pipes and rattles.

Introduction to a special themed issue on the connections and relationships between art, activism, resurgence, and resistance and how Indigenous artistic creation is connected to history, land, and community.

Discusses the Potlach (potlatch) Artists project undertaken in the Pacific Northwest in terms of developing opportunities for marketing and financial support.

Looks at four benchmarks with respect to municipal funding of major cultural organizations and Toronto Arts Council clients: average Canadian expenditures, funding in terms of population and inflation, funding and total revenues generated, and projections for funding growth, which are then used to develop six funding scenarios.