Galleries, Museums & Exhibitions

Exhibition review curated by Maria von Finckenstein. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 28.

Book review of: Inuit Women Artists edited by Odette Leroux, Marion E. Jackson and Minnie Aodla Freeman.

Virtual exhibit of over 300 digitized images and special narratives and interviews of 21 Inuit artists.

Project generates and documents Inuvialuit and curatorial knowledge about the objects in the MacFarlane Collection. Entire issue on one pdf.

To access article, scroll to page 43.

Comments on the Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History project which features the digital MacFarland Collection, documents a delegation's visit to the Smithsonian, and connects interpretations of the collection to on going cultural practices in Inuvialuit communities.

Website includes links to general information, exhibition, history, artists, and art making.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, 2000. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 35.

Critiques art exhibition mounted to celebrate the creation of new territory of Nunavut in terms of whether it accurately represented the Inuit, or was just a reflection of southern views about their art.

Short description of the textile artist's wall hangings which are inspired by traditional Inuit stories.

Discusses the controversy over exhibiting a series of paintings by artist Pamela Masik depicting women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Sparked debate about artistic freedom and social commentary versus the question of who is allowed to speak for victims and issues of exploitation.

Book review of: Ishi in Three Centuries edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber. Scroll to page 211 to read review.

Commentary on an exhibition that featured works by nine Cape Dorset women. Themes included survival, land, animals, families and children.

Discusses the National Gallery of Canada's attitude towards acquiring and displaying Inuit art. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2016.

Museum & Heritage Studies Thesis (MMHS)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2012.

Review of the exhibition Linguistic Secrets.

Exhibition review at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 43.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 1994.

Brief biographical essay on the artist.

Interview with artist.

Discusses the exhibition at Greener Pastures Contemporary Art by the artist Jennifer Murphy.

Discusses the artist's work with particular reference to an exhibition mounted at the Artist's Institute in New York.

Book review of: Journey to the Heart of the First Peoples Collection edited by Marie-Paula Robitalille.

Looks at curatorial philosophy and practices used by the Queensland Art Gallery.

Discusses ceramics created by the artist. Excerpt from An Open Book: A Catalogue of Artworks from the Surrey Art Gallery's Permanent Collection.

This documentary reflects on Kainai (Blood tribe) history, governance, survival, and living culture as it explores the repatriation of artifacts from Europeans. Duration: 1:9:39.

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.

Review of the exhibition Cyborg Living

Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights. Duration: 19:57.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--Dalhousie University, 2011.

Explains paintings in exhibition, Shame and Prejudice at the University of Toronto Art Museum January 26 to March 3, 2017.

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.

Discussion of the photographic exhibition held in 2006 at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Originally published online for GalleriesWest.

Curatorial notes from an exhibition of the same name mounted at the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, 2001. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 48.

A discussion of the artist's life and work, in particular his work on the New Deal Federal Art Project during the 1930s.

Brief discussion of exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 20 to December 5, 2010. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 31.

Looks at art collection on loan and housed by another agency for 15 years. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.

Visual Arts Thesis (MFA)--University of British Columbia, 2016.

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.

Museum Studies Thesis (MMSt)--University of Toronto, 2013.

This booklet written for the Western Development Museum Travelling Exhibition examines the religious attitudes and beliefs of Western Canadians to the land from earliest times to the present. The display seeks to facilitate understanding of man's relationship with the land and God.

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.

Book review of: Land, Spirit, Power by Diana Nemiroff, Robert Houle, Charlotte Townsend-Gault.

Discusses the National Galley of Canada's first exhibit of contemporary First Nations art in the context of nationhood and identity. Scroll down to page 30 to read article.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2011.