Galleries, Museums & Exhibitions

Discusses the performances/installations Artifact Piece, Renewal Ceremony and Chapel for Pablo Tac which challenge mainstream society's stereotype of an "authentic" Indian frozen in the past. Excerpt from thesis.

Interview with the former curator of Iqaluit's Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1996.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, January 18 to September 21, 1997. Entire issue on one pdf. To locate article, scroll to page 50.

Curatorial notes from exhibition of the same name. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 38.

Develops ethical policies and procedures for First Nations' to present their history and culture in conjunction with cultural institutions. 3rd edition.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2003.

Curator discusses Not a Trivial Pursuit: Hunting in Inuit Art and Nanuit: The Polar Bear in Inuit Art. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 29.

Examines two museums with similar goals but different approaches to preserving Kwakwaka'wakw culture and displaying it to the public.

Asserts that the National Museum of the American Indian fails to provide enough context for Aboriginal history and does not challenge colonized perceptions.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2016.

Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2014.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

Exhibition features 30 prints by seven Indigenous artists from the coastal areas of British Columbia: Francis Dick, Maynard Johnny Jr., Edward Joe, Stan Greene, Floyd Joseph, Tim Paul, and Joe David. Contains links to short biographies of artists, images of each artwork, brief bibliography and curatorial essay.

Identifies behaviours and patterns in the treatment of the mainstream art world when dealing with marginalized "other" groups.

Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, September 20, 1997 to April 5, 1998. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.

First Nation owned and operated Frazier Museum near Beauval.

Guide to an exhibition mounted at the Kamloops Art Gallery January 17, 2013 to March 22, 2014, curated by Tania Willard.

Discusses how anthropological images were used to portray the group as racially homogeneous, primitive, and uncivilized.

"This article provides a case study of decolonial counter-memory in contemporary Indigenous artist Alan Michelson's 2009 Third Bank of the River."

Cultural and Heritage Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Newcastle University, 2011.

Article examines the work of contemporary artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, and Caroline Monnet. Discusses the artists’ engagement with current discourse surrounding settler colonialism and their use of the arts to disrupt conceptualization of the Canadian state as inclusive and benevolent.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2019. Refers to the exhibition by Kent Monkman, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience .

Discusses David Garneau's solo exhibition, Métis/sage, mounted at the Urban Shaman Gallery.

Brief article deals with objects thought to be acquired between 1894 and 1902 by E.J. Peck. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 36.

[Communication] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, 2019.

Interviews delegates, asking for their thoughts about Inuit art at the Biennale and the importance of the international Indigenous voice. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.

Provides traditional Métis oral history interviews, photographs and various archival documents in visual, audio and video files.

Features links to information on clothing and moccasins, contemporary artwork and traditional art forms. Presented in variety of media.

Provides access to a variety of Gabriel Dumont Institute's general educational resources, including items on the traditional Métis lifestyle.

Highlights the Europeans role change, exploration, and colonization of New France. Includes links to genealogy, explorers, First Nations, and daily life.

[Curriculum and Instruction] Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.

Review of exhibition mounted at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2001. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia. 2004. Focuses on exhbition about Blackfoot history and culture mounted at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.

Uses viewers' remarks as a basis for assessing whether the exhibition had achieved the curators' educational goals.

Curator's overview of exhibition of the same name. Discusses the work of selected artists, including Norman Akers, George Longfish, Gail Tremblay, Edgar Heap of Birds, Duane Slick, and Nadema Agard. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

An analysis of the cultural values and perspectives manifested within the sculpture program in Vienna, Austria during the 1870s.

Catalogue to accompany exhibition of the same name held January 30-February 28, 2004 at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Discusses expressions of sovereignty through the artwork of four contemporary Iroquois artists; G. Peter Jemison, Alan Michelson, Samuel Thomas, and Marie Watt.

Assesses two major museum exhibits as individual projects and as illustrations of broader issues concerning the representation of Native Americans: Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Chiefly Feast: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History.0892-8339

Artist James Luna discusses what it means to be accepted as an American Indian by examining the criteria for tribal enrollment and critiques the work of self-declared Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham.

Website chronicles the over 600 reported missing indigenous women in Canada and the United States through a commemorative art installation.

Comments on an exhibit which commemorates and honours the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada.