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Aboriginal Artists use Cola Bottles as Inspiration

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andréa Ledding
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, pp. 17-18

Brief article on an Aboriginal artists work chosen to be on display at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

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Aboriginal Culture Viewed Through Urban Aesthetic

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cara McKenna
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 2, May 2012

Comments on the exhibition Beat Nation, that expresses freedom from oppression.

Pages 1,3 of insert entitled Raven's Eye: Special Providing News from BC & Yukon. Scanning is out of sequence for this section.

Entire issue on one pdf. 

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Any Important Form: Louis Riel in Sculpture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frances W. Kaye
Prairie Forum, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 103-133
Comments on two controversial 1967 sculptures of Louis Riel and the criticisms by various Métis organizations.
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Arctic Defenders

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Walker
Looks at Canada's attempts at sovereignty in the north and the eventual creation of Nunavut. Duration: 1:30:00.
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Art of Ron Noganosh

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC/CCA)
Includes biography, list of exhibitions, bibliography and link to images from exhibition.
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The Artist and the Vision

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Ayre
The Beaver, vol. 73, no. 1, February 1993, pp. 47-?
Book review of: Sculpture of the Inuit by George Swinton.
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[Artist Lecture: Nicholas Galanin]

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Nicholas Galanin
Multi-media artist speaks about the various series he has created. Presented as part of the It's Complicated: Art about Home exhibition. Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:09:58.
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[Artists, Natural Resources, and the Environment. Part 1]

Alternate Title
Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research's 2014 Speaker Series, Art in Flux
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roy Kady
Rose Simpson
Kathy Wallace
Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Discussion with three artists about the challenges they face creating their work due to shortages of resources and environmental factors. Part 1 of 2. Duration: 53:30.
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[Artists, Natural Resources, and the Environment. Part 2]

Alternate Title
Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research's 2014 Speaker Series, Art in Flux
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roy Kady
Rose Simpson
Kathy Wallace
Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Question and answer session with three artists discussing challenges they face due to shortages of resources and environmental factors. Part 2 of 2. Duration: 22:32.
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Artists of Change: Breaking Through the Millennium [Part 3]

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Larry Abbott
Rosemary Diaz
Michael Hice
Native Peoples, vol. 13, no. 4, June/July 2000, pp. 50-57
Survey of sixteen artists judged to be innovators in the areas of photography, pottery, sculpture, weaving, and writing.
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Autoethnography and Material Culture: the Case of Bill Reid

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joel Martineau
Biography, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, January 1, 2001, pp. 242-258
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.
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Ayumee-Aawach Oomama-Mowan: Speaking to Their Mother

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marjorie Beaucage
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.
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Bearclaw Gallery

Web Sites » Organizations
Features original paintings by aboriginal artists, inuit sculptures, and traditional crafts and artifacts. Brief artist's biographies are available....
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Bill Reid

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Megan Smetzer
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 113-114
Book review of: Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt. To access this review, scroll to page 113.
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Bill Reid (1920-1998): In Memoriam

Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Canadian Museum of Civilization
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.
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The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of the Haida Gawaii

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John K. Grande
Espace Sculpture, no. 19, Sculpture et Anthropologie, Spring, 1992, pp. 30-33
Brief description of his career and the sculpture which stands in front of the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Brian Jungen

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Geoffrey Carr
BC Studies, no. 175, Autumn, 2012, pp. 148-150
Book review of Brian Jungen by Daina Augaitis. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 148.
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Brian Jungen: Contemporary Mythologies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Rodgers
Espace Sculpture, no. 77, Fall, 2006, pp. 36-37
Discusses works from the survey exhibition mounted at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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Brian Jungen, Selected Works & Interview

Alternate Title
fARTiculate
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Morgan
Brian Jungen
Interview with noted sculptor who uses mass-produced consumer goods in his works.
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Call Me Angakkuq: Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Qatiktalik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 61-86
Article examines the almost 250 facial casts made by Captain Comer of Aivilingmiut and Iglulingmiut peoples from Hudson’s Bay; Qaernermiut, Hauneqtormiut, and Netsilingmiut from the interior areas of the region, Tununermiut people from Baffin Island; and Padlimiut people from an area north of what is now Churchill.
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Canadian Inuit Art and Coops: Father Steinman of Povungnituk

Alternate Title
Canadian Inuit Art and Co-ops
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nelson Graburn
Museum Anthropology, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring/Summer, 2000, pp. 14-25
Discusses the missionary's influence on the arts and his role in the creation of the Povungnituk Sculptures Society and La Fèdèration des Coopèratives du Nouveau Quèbec.
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Canadian Inuit Sculpture

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Inuit Art Centre
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Discusses prehistoric arctic art, modern Inuit sculpture, imagery, materials, methods and regional styles.
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CCCA Canadian Art Database

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Bill Kirby
Canadian Centre for Contemporary Art (CCCA) Database documents the output of many of Canada's leading professional artists.
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Challenging Tradition, Challenging Pop Art: Sonny Assu

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Brief interview provides some insight into artist's work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary art by challenging the perceptions of Indigenous art.
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Chasms and Collisions: Native American Women's Decolonial Labor

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Molly Suzanne McGlennen
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Red Readings, December 30, 2018, pp. 63-79
Article engages with the visual art of two different Indigenous women artists, Sarah Sense and Shan Goshorn, and the work it does to challenge colonial narratives and representations of Indigeneity, and Indigenous women by addressing "chasms of misunderstanding and collisions of cultural representation."
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classiFICTIONs

Theses
Author/Creator
Adrienne Vetter
Art and Design Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Michigan, 2009.
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Collecting Contemporary Native Arts in the Boreal Forest of Western Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William A. Tracy
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 1, Art and Material Culture of the North American Subarctic and Adjacent Regions, 1991, pp. 101-109
Discusses factors that influence value and output such as provenance, market location, and producer-collector (consumer) interactions.
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Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J Stanley
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 89-113
Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.
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