Galleries, Museums & Exhibitions

Author argues that gun museums—especially those attached to academic institutions—serve to silence the Indigenous voice regarding the history of the American West, promote a white-supremist agenda, and function as a tool of ongoing colonialism in the United States.

Curatorial notes from exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, 2001. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.

Interview with co-curator Steve Loft about Home On Native Land exhibit featuring artists from around the world presenting a variety of new media works and issues facing Aboriginal People in Canada. Duration: 8:05.

Update on the efforts to return to Labrador the remains of 8 Inuit who died in Europe of smallpox during their exhibition tour in 1880-81.

Produced to accompany exhibition which incorporated aspects of two other projects: Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC. One of the main features of the exhibition was a commemorative canoe decorated with tiles created by students from participating schools.

Presents digitized images and lesson plans to enhance teaching and learning about First Nations art.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 1997.

Comments on museums selling Native American art out of an exhibit.

Brief discussion of the Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun works mounted in the exhibition Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations and those of Eric Robertson, Faye Heavyshield, and Shelley Niro featured in Nations in Urban Landscapes.

Describes alterations the artist made to Lothar Baumgarten's Monument for the Native People of Ontario in the Walker Court of the Gallery.

Reviews how the assertion by Aboriginal peoples that they define their own histories served to interrupt and redefine the western idea of scholarly privilege, as it applied to several public representations of indigenous languages and cultures at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.

Uses the work of the self-proclaimed Osage artist to discuss the way that American culture's definition of "Indianness" allowed her to achieve success but created barriers for other Indigenous female artists.

Information related to the college that offers BA and BFA degrees in creative writing, studio arts, new media arts, museum studies and Indigenous liberal studies.

Review of an exhibition featuring the work of 21 students and guest curated by Charleen Touchette.

Discusses the artist's exhibition, Winnipeg Hydro, mounted at the Urban Shaman Gallery.

Focuses on the Dogrib people. For use with the interactive exhibit Lessons from the Land.

[Art History] Thesis (M.A.[?])--Masaryk University, [2021]

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado, 2014.

Comments on media perceptions of contemporary First Nations art which impacts the activities of museums and galleries.

Displays pictures from an exhibit at the Bata Shoe Museum of footwear from Canada's Indigenous people of the Arctic and other regions.

Exhibit focuses on the evolution of government responsibilities and policies.

Discussion of an international initiative to control access to indigenous knowledge, aimed at protecting sacred and secret knowledge and ensuring proper compensation for intellectual property which is shared.

Exhibition review from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, 1996. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.

Review of website: Images of Native Americans created and maintained by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. All website reviews on one document. To access review, scroll to page 748.

Exhibition review from the National Gallery of Canada, 1995-1996 curated by Marie Routledge. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 44.

Website developed for exhibition of the same name as well as the book launch for Warriors of the Plains: The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare by Max Carocci. Contains links to exhibition, catalogue, bibliography, videos and information on the book.

Discusses cultural identity in terms of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Centre and Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.

Review of exhibitions Indigena: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on Five Hundred Year and Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century.

Review essay of art exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, December 15, 1991 to March 29, 1992 featuring 100,00 drawings and prints from West Baffin Cooperative. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.

Describes clothing worn by Native people reflecting the transition to Euro-American dress from photographs in the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum .

Discusses his artistic evolution as demonstrated in various exhibitions.

Discusses the "Coronation Exhibition" of Inuit art mounted in London, England in 1953. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Examines works by Jimmie Durham and James Luna as examples of artists who challenge Western expectations of what "authentic" Indian art is.

Fine Arts and Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Discusses the misrepresentation of Native Americans in the entertainment industry.

Exhibition review. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 32.

Book review of: edited by Gerhard Hoffmann. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 33.

Exhibition review at the Royal Ontario Museum, Gallery of Indigenous Peoples, Toronto, Ontario, 1995. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 40.

(abstract and full text in English) A brief history of the Baker Lake facility, which opened June 3, 1998.

Critiques the two exhibitions Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait and Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska in terms of their success as cross-cultural collaborations.

Discusses the complexities of museum selection and acquisition for both contemporary and traditional Indigenous art.

Overview of the conference addressing issues in Aboriginal performance art.

Fine Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1994.

Describes opening of the Indian Art Gallery at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College.

Reviews exhibition representing North American Indians past and present installed under René d'Harnoncourt and Frederic H. Douglas.

Describes how the Heard Museum created interest in Native American and Indigenous peoples art and discusses how some of this art attempted to make comprehensible what was incomprehensible.

Book reviews: Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest 1840-1934 by Martin Padget. A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars by Stan Hoig.

Attempts to address criticisms of the National Museum of the American Indian by giving an overview of its structure, exhibitions, and total museum experience.