Artists

Discusses the Gitksan artist.

Artist explains the use of collage.

Career of Gary Natomagan from Pinehouse Lake.

Survey of artists judged to be innovators in the areas of carving, clay, glass, installation and jewelry.

Survey of artists judged to be innovators in the areas of music, painting and performing arts.

Survey of sixteen artists judged to be innovators in the areas of photography, pottery, sculpture, weaving, and writing.

Two Inuit artists, Oviloo Tunnillie and Martha Tickiq, are interviewed at the Mario Scott Gallery in Vancouver. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.

Three Inuit artists, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Kananginak Pootoogook, and Jimmy Manning, are interviewed by telephone after attending the Conference on Inuit Art. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

From program: "Ruth Cuthand's art...involves painting herself and her people into their own cultural tradition. Like a storyteller, she brings the tradition to life, and in the process revitalizes it." Exhibit curated by Cindy Richmond.

Historical note:

Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, SK in 1954 and grew up near the Blood Reserve in Alberta. Her heritage is Plains Cree and Scots/Irish. Her Aboriginal culture and memories of her childhood experiences are often the inspiration for her art-making practice.

Uses artist Jimmie Durham and the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World to illustrate the issues connected with Indigenous identity. Jimmie Durham is a self-proclaimed Cherokee artist, whose ethnicity has been challenged by the Cherokee Nation.

Describes various baskets featuring Tathouke birchbark baskets made by Daisy Demientieff, a famous Alaskan craftsman and her daughter Judy Swanson. Includes photographs.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2012.

Discusses Bill Reid's, (1920-1998) life and work and the ways his art can be used to analyze Haida and Canadian politics and cultures.

Comments on an artist, Rebecca Belmore, who created a giant megaphone as a protest piece and toured it across Canada in 1992 including a 3-day stop at the Protectors of the Mother Earth Wiggins Bay Blockade in Northern Saskatchewan. Duration: 26:13.

Brief profile of the noted Inuit sculptor. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 18.

Insight into artist and his motivation to be an artist.

Textiles and Clothing Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2003.

Features original paintings by aboriginal artists, inuit sculptures, and traditional crafts and artifacts. Brief artist's biographies are available....

Exhibition dedicated to photographs of Native Americans taken by the Danish photographer in the late 19th century. Includes links to biography, photographs and influences on the images.

Traces American artist's years in Italy and his painting, Indian Family in 1761.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2008.

Comments on commissioned paintings by Plains Indian warriors with descriptions of the individual scenes.

Displays Bill Helin's custom jewelry, sculptures and paintings in the Tsimshian tradition.

Interview with a prominent western Arctic artist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 28.

Book review of: Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt. To access this review, scroll to page 113.

Film highlights the artist Bill Reid and his explanations why cedar is the ideal material for making totem poles. Duration: 45:00.

Dedicated to the famous Haida sculptor, carver and jeweller. Includes links to biographical notes, Remembering Bill Reid by Barry Herem, quotations by and about Bill Reid and a gallery of some examples of his works.

Discussion of the life and body of work of the 1986 recipient of the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts.

Background of a Cree artist.

Website dedicating to capturing Canadian stories in artifacts. Biography of Angelique Merasty and photographs of her birch bark biting artwork.

Brief description of his career and the sculpture which stands in front of the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.

Autobiographical sketch in which the author, an artist, explains why she decided to become a curator.

Book reviews of 22 books: African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizen by Celia E. Naylor. American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher. Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King. Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia J.

Looks at the poetry, fiction, non-fiction and artwork of Alootook Ipellie. Scroll to p. 75. Chapter from 11th Inuit Studies Conference, Nuuk, Greenland, September 23-27, 1998 edited by Claus Andreasen, Karen Langgard.

Brief commentary on artist Bob Boyer, known for making political statements about the way Aboriginal people have been treated throughout the years.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.38.

Comments on an artist and his work that speaks to commercialism, greed, overindulgence and more.

Review covering Jungen's major ten-year retrospective exhibition of works produced from 1993 to 2005.

Discusses the many themes, including forgiveness, which run through the versatile artist's work and discusses the exhibition held at the University of Saskatchewan entitled Buffalo Boy's Heart On: Buffalo Boy's 100 Years of Wearing His Heart on His Sleeve.

Film of songwriter, singer, Buffy Sainte-Marie, discusses her inspirations and hopes. Duration: 06:16.

Brief discussion of the documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life directed by Joan Prowse.

Features the award-winning Aboriginal singer/songwriter/visual artist. Includes biography, recordings, interview, photos, artwork, and audio clips....

Interview with Buffy Sainte-Marie on her music and her life of promoting traditional Aboriginal values.

Book review of: Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality by John W. Friesen, Virginia Lyons Friesen. Artwork by David J. Friesen. To access this review, scroll to page 114.

Article by a clergyman who lived "amongst the Indians of Canada." G.H. Raley calls for the formation of a federal government-sponsored Canadian Indian handicraft organization to sell Aboriginal handicrafts and providing self-supporting industries in Aboriginal communities. Article from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, London, England.

Comments on two decades of Warlpiri acrylic art and its impact on the social and economic identities of the painters.

Brings together graphic works with recollections of Elders concerning traditional skills, stories and legends, culture and clothing.

"Applied Anthropology course student P. Sullivan interviewing ceramic artist Aksadjuak at Rankin Inlet, N.W.T." [NU]