I started making things when I was around five



I started making things when I was around five. I grew up surrounded by people who made things all the time. From a very early age, I thought it was the work of people to make beautiful things

- Gail Tremblay (Onondaga, Mohawk and Mi’kmaq

The Kitanmax School of Northwest Coastal Art was started because we need to reclaim our traditional performance arts … Up until 1951 we couldn’t practice our arts because of the potlatch ban and the danger of going to jail. Once the potlatch law was lifted, we had to reclaim our arts by relearning them.

Doreen Jensen (Gitsxan)

Class location: TIER 312

Dates & Times: M-W-F 1:30am-2:20pm (January 5 – April 8)

Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette Office: Isbister Building 204-C (474-6720)

Office Hours: Wed. 2:45 – 4:30 pm, or by appointment

Email: farrellr@cc.umanitoba (preferred method of communication)

Please note: I only check my e-mail Monday-Friday 9am–5pm. Do not expect responses during evenings or weekends, and allow AT LEAST 24 hours for a reply. Please save copies of all e-mail correspondence.*

Course description: This is a special topics course exploring Native Women in the Arts with an emphasis on visual arts, performance and film. The first part of the course will be structured around the major exhibition Close Encounters: the next 500 Years (opening January 21) and a mini-film festival organized for this class. Noted film maker, and multi-media artist Shelley Niro (Mohawk) and documentary filmmaker Tasha Hubbard (Cree) are the invited guest artists for this course, courtesy of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.

This course is not organized in chronological order, rather we will begin with an immersion in current arts practices, then back-track to explore historic roots, traditional arts, pioneer artists, and the role of women artists in cultural continuity, activism and changing the face of contemporary art. This course will have an Angel site where readings, images and links related to lectures will be posted 24 hours prior to class, while Power Point presentations will be posted after class. Lecture notes will not be posted and will not be available from me.

PARTICIPATION IN JANUARY’S OUT-OF-CLASSROOM EVENTS IS A REQUIRED COMPONENT OF THIS COURSE. THIS INCLUDES CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND FILM SCREENINGS.

COURSE TEXTS AND READINGS

Cynthia Chavez, Sherry Farrell Racette, eds. with Lara Evans, Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue (SAR Press, 2010).

Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses (National Museum of the American, Smithsonian Institute, 2007).

Students will be assigned one - two readings per week, either from the course texts or readings that will be either distributed in class or posted on the course Angel Site 24 hours prior to discussion.

Key On-Line Resources:

Aboriginal Curatorial Collective

The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective is a professional association designed to advance Indigenous curatorial practice. Web site resources include online exhibitions, biographies and an extensive bibliography of curatorial and critical writing on Aboriginal art.

Beyond Buckskin: About Native American Fashion

A blog on contemporary Native fashion by Jessica Metcalfe, Turtle Mountain Chippewa and recent graduate from the Ph.D. program in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona.

Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses



Identity by Design originated as an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D. C. In addition to the exhibition catalogue (our class text), there is also a website featuring highlights of the exhibiton, artists and curators.

Not Artomatic: a blog wrestling with art

A blog by Lara Evans, a Cherokee artist, professor, art historian and curator. See the “For Students Using This Site” on the right-hand menu of the home page.

COURSE EVALUATION:

Guidelines will be provided for each written assignment on a specified date. A hard copy of the guidelines will be posted on the Angel site 24 hours prior to that class.

Close Encounters Journal 15% JANUARY 28

Discussion Leader / Artist Talk 20% AS SCHEDULED

Participation / Hard Work 20%

Essay 25% APRIL 7

FINAL EXAM 20% TBA

Close Encounters Journal 15% Due January 28

You will attend as many of the events scheduled for the Close Encounters Exhibition as you can. Of particular importance are the artist panels, curator and artist talks. There will be some awesome male artists at this event, but stay focused on the women!

Guidelines will be discussed in class on Monday, January 17.

Discussion Leader / Artist Talk 20% As assigned (on going)

The discussion of women artists has been organized into four sections: 19th and early 20th Century Pioneers, Mid-20th Century Pioneers, Making a Noise: Banging on Doors and Movers and Shakers. Students will be assigned to a section (A-D) and will present during that section of the course. Students are responsible for developing a poster presentation on an assigned artist, and for taking a lead role in class discussion.

Guidelines will be discussed in class on Monday, January 10.

Participation / Hard Work 20%

This includes attendance, engagement on the Angel site, participation in class, attendance at class events, and helping out with class activities and events. Come to class prepared, ready to discuss the assigned readings. It is recommended that students prepare brief written summaries of assigned readings to prepare for class discussions. Students should organize their reading notes, summaries, questions generated during class, film screenings, artist talks etc. into a portfolio to be submitted as evidence of their level of participation. Ten percent of the total participation mark will be a self-assessment using a sound rationale, evidence and criteria I will provide you with.

Essay (2500 words) 20%

Suggested topics and guidelines for the essay will be distributed Monday, January 31.

Topic, outline, annotated bibliography due Monday, February 28

ESSAYS SUBMITTED WITHOUT AN APPROVED OUTLINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Final Exam 25%

The final exam will be based on information contained in reading assignments, class lectures, class discussions, and in-class screenings and visual presentations. All course materials “count.” In terms of format, expect a mixed bag, including such possibilities as short-answer questions, identifications, multiple choice, and essay questions.

Grading Scheme

A+ Exceptional (90-100%) C+ Satisfactory (65-69%)

A Excellent (80-89%) C Adequate (60-64%)

B+ Very Good (75-79%) D Marginal (50-59%)

B Good (70-74%) F Failure (less than 50%)

*Final grades subject to Program review*

Penalties and Course Policies

All assignments must be submitted in-class, by the end of that class, on the due date. ELECTRONIC COPIES, FAXED COPIES, OR WORK SLIPPED UNDER OR ATTACHED TO MY OFFICE DOOR WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. DO NOT EMAIL YOUR ASSIGNMENT. I WILL DISREGARD ASSIGNMENTS SO SUBMITTED. It is your responsibility to ensure that I receive, in person, your assignments on time. If you miss the due date, submit it the following class and accept the penalty of -2% for each day.

EXTENSIONS IN ADVANCE WILL ONLY BE GRANTED under exceptional circumstances for which documentation will be provided. If you realize you may have difficulty meeting the due dates please contact me as soon as possible so that we can discuss how to manage the time you allocate to this course.

No rewrites to improve grades will be allowed.

I WILL NOT RESCHEDULE DUE DATES TO ACCOMMODATE PERSONAL SCHEDULES.

Academic Dishonesty

Students should acquaint themselves with the University’s policy on plagiarism, cheating, exam personation, and duplicate submission (see Section 8: Academic Integrity, pp. 27-28, in the University of Manitoba Undergraduate Calendar 2010-2011).

Penalties for Academic Dishonesty

The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism on a written assignment is F on the paper and F (CW) (For Compulsory Withdrawal) for the course. For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as the purchase of an essay and repeat violations, this penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty.

The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of being plagiarized to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism.

The common penalty in Arts for academic dishonesty on a test or examination is F for the paper and F (CW) for the course. For more serious acts of academic dishonesty on a test or examination, such as repeat violations, this penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from registration in courses taught in a particular department in Arts or from all courses taught in this Faculty.

TOPIC OUTLINE:

January

Introduction: Native Women and the Arts

Behind the Camera: Native Women in Photography, Video and Film

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years

Native Women in Vaudeville, Silent Film and Literary Performance (A)

February

Traditional Arts: Creativity, Identity and Economy (B&D)

The Culture Ban: When Art was Outlawed

THERE WILL BE NO CLASSES FEB. 14-18

March

Reclaiming Traditional Practice (B)

Where Were the Women? Government Policies and Expo ’67 (B)

Mid-Twentieth Century Pioneers (B)

Making a Noise: Fighting for Institutional Change (C)

Movers and Shakers (D)

April

Art and Healing (D)

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years JANUARY 19-23

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years is the Banner Project of ARTS FOR ALL, Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010. This is a major arts event organized by Plug In Gallery. An intense schedule of openings, curatorial lectures and artist talks will take place from JANUARY 19-23. It provides a rare opportunity to meet / listen to/ view the work of the most important Indigenous women artists and curators, including artists from Australia and New Zealand, right here in Winnipeg:

Curators: Lee-Ann Martin (Mohawk), Candice Hopkins (Tlingit), Jenny Western (Metis), Rosalie Favell (Metis)

Artists: Mary Anne Barkhouse (Kwakwaka’wak), Faye HeavyShield (Kainawa), Nadia Myre (Algonquin), Rebecca Belmore (Ojibwe), Rosalie Favell …

MOST OF THE ARTISTS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE

EVENTS:

7 p.m. Thursday, January 20

Rosalie Favell, Curatorial Lecture, Aqua Books, 274 Garry.

7 p.m. Friday, January 21

Exhibition opening, Acting Up! Performing the Indian, PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, 121-100 Arthur Street.

[Lori Blondeau, Shelley Niro, Jackie Traverse, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie. Also includes historic representations of Princess White Deer, Pauline Johnson, Molly Spotted Elk

Saturday January 22

Panel Discussions, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 330 Memorial Boulevard

10:30 Candice Hopkins, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Faye HeavyShield, Nadia Myre) 10:30

1:30 Rebecca Belmore, Lee-Ann Martin

EXHIBITION VENUES AND OPENINGS

Thursday, January 20 Nadia Myre: The Forgiveness Project (solo exhibition) La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, 219 boulevard Provencher.

Friday, January 21 Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years (main exhibition, 109 Pacific Avenue) Mary Ann Barkhouse, Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Fiona Pardington (Maori), Marie Watts (Seneca)

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years Plug-In Gallery, 460 Portage Avenue

Rebecca Belmore, Lisa Reihana (Maori), Skawennati Fragnetti (Mohawk)

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years (Winnipeg Art Gallery)

Maria Theresa Alves (Brazil), Shuvinai Ashoona (Inuit), Faye HeavyShield, Tracey Moffatt (Australia)

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years (Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave.

Rosalie Favell (Metis)

Close Encounters: the Next 500 Years (Manitoba Hydro, Head Office, 360 Portage Avenue)

KC Adams

ARTISTS FOR DISCUSSION LEADER / ARTIST TALKS

GROUP A NINETEENTH – EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PIONEERS

1. Jane Johnson Schoolcraft (Ojibwa, 1800-1842)

2. Carolina Go-won-go Mohawk (Mohawk, circa 1860-1924)

3. E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk, 1861-1913)

4. Angel De Cora (Ho-chunk, 1871-1919)

5. Princess Redwing (Ho-chunk, 1883-1974)

6. Princess White Deer (Mohawk, 1891-1992)

7. Columbia Eneutseak (Labrador Inuit, 1893-1959)

8. Molly Spotted Elk (Penobscot, 1903-1977)

GROUP B MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY PIONEERS

9. Maria Campbell (Metis)

10. Doreen Jensen (Gitskan)

11. Rosalie Jones (Chippewa)

12. Kenojuak (Inuit)

13. Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka’wakw)

14. Daphne Odjig (Odawa)

15. Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)

16. Jessie Oonark (Inuit)

17. Buffy Sainte Marie (Cree)

18. Maria Tallchief (Osage)

19. Marion Tuu’luq (Inuit)

GROUP C MAKING A NOISE: BANGING ON DOORS

20. Jane Ash Poitras (Cree/Metis)

21. Rebecca Belmore (Ojibwa)

22. Joanne Cardinal Schubert (Blackfoot)

23. Candice Hopkins (Tlingit)

24. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead/Shoshone/Cree-Metis)

25. Lee-Ann Martin (Mohawk)

26. Nancy Marie Mithlo (Apache

27. Marie Mumford (Metis)

28. Spiderwoman Theater

GROUP D MOVERS AND SHAKERS

29. KC Adams (Metis)

30. Mary Anne Barkhouse (Kwakwaka’wakw)

31. Lori Blondeau (Cree/Metis)

32. Dana Claxton (Lakota)

33. Marie Clements (Metis)

34. Hannah Claus (Mohawk)

35. Ruth Cuthand (Cree)

36. Thirza Cuthand (Cree)

37. Patricia Deadman (Tuscarora)

38. Tracey Deer (Mohawk)

39. Lita Fontaine (Saulteaux/Dakota)

40. Danis Goulet (Metis)

41. Carol Greyeyes (Cree)

42. Rosalie Favell (Metis)

43. Faye HeavyShield (Blood)

44. Maria Hupfield (Ojibwa)

45. Margot Kane (Cree/Saulteaux)

46. Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Metis)

47. Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Inupiak/ Athapaskan)

48. Sandra Laronde (Ojibwa)

49. Erica Lord (Athapaskan/Yupik/ Japanese/Finnish)

50. Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiq)

51. Teresa Marshall (Mik’maq)

52. Monique Mojica (Kuna, Rappahannock)

53. Nadia Myre (Algonquin)

54. Marianne Nicholson (Kwakwaka’wakw)

55. Annie Pootoogook (Inuit)

56. Skeena Reece (Tsimshian/Gitskan/Cree/Metis)

57. Santee Smith (Mohawk)

58. Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Muskogee /Seminole/Dine)

59. Tania Willard (Metis)

60. Jolene Yazzie (Dine)

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES

THE WOMAN IN NATIVE WOMEN AND THE ARTS

Farrell Racette, Sherry. “This Fierce Love”: Gender, Women and Art Making in Cynthia Chavez Lamar, Sherry Farrell Racette and Lara Evans eds. Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue (Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2010): 27-58.

“I Call Their Names in Resistance”: Writing Aboriginal Women into Canadian Art History, 1880-1970 in Kristina Huneault and Janet Anderson, eds. Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970 (McGill- Queens Press, forthcoming 2011).

Gray, Viviane. A Culture of Art: Profiles of Contemporary First Nations Women Artists in Gail Gutherie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout and Eric Guimond, eds. Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture (University of Manitoba Press, 2005): 267-282.

NATIVE WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM

Abbott, Lawrence. Interviews with Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro and Patricia Deadman. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XVIII no. 2 (1998): 335-373.

Kalafatic, Carol. Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh in Kay Armatage ed. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 1999): 109-136.

Lippard, Lucy R. Independent Identities in W. Jackson Rushing III, ed. Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories (London UK: Routledge, 1999): 134-148.

Ryan, Alan. I Enjoy Being a Mohawk Girl: the Cool and Comic Character of Shelley Niro’s Photography American Indian Art Magazine (Winter 1994).

Tsinhanahjinnie, Hulleah and Veronica Passalacqua. Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers (Heyday Books, 2006).

TRADITIONAL ARTS

Farrell Racette, Sherry. Sewing for a Living: the Commodification of Metis Women’s Artistic Production in Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles eds. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past (University of British Columbia Press, 2005): 17-46.

Fowler, Cynthia. Materiality and Collective Experience: Sewing as Artistic Practice in Works by Marie Watt, Nadia Myre, and Bonnie Devine, American Indian Quarterly 34, issue 3 (Summer 2010): 344-364.

Oberholtzer, Cath. Some Thoughts on the Concepts of Creativity and Innovation. Nexus 8 no. 1 (1990): 31-46.

Propitiation, Instruction, Commission: Survival Arts of the James Bay Cree in J. C. H. King and C F. Feest eds. Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art (Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native Studies (ERNAS), 2007): 92- 102.

EARLY PERFORMANCE, LITERARY AND VISUAL ARTISTS

Carpenter, Cari M. “A Woman to Let Alone: E. Pauline Johnson and the Performance of Anger” in Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality and American Indians (Ohio State University Press, 2008).

Gere, Anne Ruggles. An Art of Survivance: Angel Decora at Carlisle, American Indian Quarterly 28 issues 3 / 4 (Summer 2004): 649-685.

Gerson, Carole and Veronica Strong-Boag. Championing the Native: E. Pauline Johnson Rejects the Squaw in Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles eds. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past (University of British Columbia Press, 2005): 47-66.

Hall, Roger A. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Hutchinson, Elizabeth, Modern Native American Art: Angel DeCora’s Transcultural Aesthetics, The Art Bulletin 83, no. 4 (Dec. 2001): 740-756.

Johnson, E. Pauline. The Iroquois Women of Canada by One of Them, Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (National Council of Women of Canada, 1901): 440-442.

McBride, Bunny. The Spider and the WASP: Chronicling the Life of Molly Spotted Elk in Jennifer S. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert eds. Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History (Broadview Press, 1996 reprint 2003).

Molly Spotted Elk: a Penobscot in Paris (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).

Zwick, Jim. Inuit Entertainers in the United States from the Chicago World’s Fair to the Birth of Hollywood (Infinity Publishing, 2006).

Nicks, Trudy and Ruth Phillips. “From Wigwam to White Lights”: Princess White Deer’s Indian Acts in J. C. H. King and C F. Feest eds. Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art (Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native Studies (ERNAS), 2007): 144-160.

Phillips, Ruth B. Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in Linda Jessup, ed. Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity (University of Toronto Press, 2001): 26-49.

Smith, Andrew Brodie. Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood (University Press of Colorado, 2003).

Unwin, Peter, The Mohawk Princess Beaver Magazine 79 issue 5 (October-November 1999): 15.

MAKING SPACE FOR ART AND PERFORMANCE

Claxton, Dana L. Red Woman White Cube: First Nations Art and Racialized Space. MA Project, Simon Fraser University, 2007.

Hopkins, Candice. How to Get Indians into an Art Gallery in Lee-Ann Martin, ed. Making a Noise: Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community (The Banff International Curatorial Institute, 2004): 192-205.

Making Things Our Own: the Indigenous Aesthetic in Digital Storytelling. LEONARDO 39 No. 4 (Summer 2006): 341-344.

Martin, Lee-Ann. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada (Canada Council of the Arts, 1991).

Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992).

Wordplay: Issues of Authority and Territory in Lee-Ann Martin, ed. Making a Noise: Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community (The Banff International Curatorial Institute, 2004): 102-107.

McKee, Jesse, In Conversation with the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective: Steve Loft, Candice Hopkins and Leanne L’Hirondelle, Fuse Magazine 33 no. 2 (Spring 2010): 14-22.

THEATRE AND DANCE

Abbott, Larry. Spiderwoman Theater and the Tapestry of Story. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XVI, no. 1 (1996): 165-180.

Darby, Jaye T. Keepers of the Morning Star: an Anthology of Native Women’s Theater (American Indian Studies Center, 2003).

Daystar/Rosalie Jones. A View from the Mountain: A Journey Begins in S. E. Wilmer, ed. Native American Performance and Representation (University of Arizona Press, 2009).

Heth, Charlotte. Native American Dance: Ceremonies and Social Traditions. (National Museum of the American Indian, 1992).

Livingston, Lili Cockerville. American Indian Ballerinas (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Mojica, Monique. Ethnostress: Women’s Voices in Native American Theater in Shirley A. Huston-Findley and Rebecca Howard, eds. Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive (University of Michigan Press, 2008).

Murphy, Jacqueline Shea. The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance History (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marie Mumford, Sandra Laronde and Elaine Bomberry, Association of Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario, May 25, 1993. Our Legacy, Indigenous Portal at the University of Saskatchewan

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A HEALING PRACTICE

Emerson, Gloria. Art as Healing, Art as Struggle in Cynthia Chavez Lamar, Sherry Farrell Racette and Lara Evans eds. Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue

(Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2010): 17-58.

La Flamme, Michelle. Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal Performance, Ritual and Commemoration, The Medicine Project, 2008. Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia. , November 16, 2009.

ON-LINE RESOURCES:

ABORIGINAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, COMPANIES AND PROGRAMS

Aboriginal Curatorial Collective

The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective is a professional association designed to advance Indigenous curatorial practice. Their web site resources include online exhibitions, biographies and an extensive bibliography of curatorial and critical writing on Aboriginal art.

The Banff Art Centre

The Banff Art Centre functions as a laboratory for collaboration, discussion and creation. The Aboriginal Arts Program founded by Marie Mumford focuses on dance, voice and performance. The Visual Arts Program sponsors an annual Aboriginal Arts Residency for a changing roster of resident artists under the direction of guest curators.

Dancing Earth: Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations

Established in 2004, founder and artistic director, Rulan Tangen is an Alberta Metis living in Santa Fe New Mexico. The company’s website includes dancer bios, a blog and photo archive of past performances.

Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America

Founded by Rosalie Jones in 1980, Daystar is the oldest contemporary Native dance company. Most Daystar productions are centered around Rosalie Jones with guest artists. Daystar is currently associated with the Indigenous Studies program at Trent University in Ontario.

Grunt Gallery

A Vancouver artist-run centre established in 1984, Grunt Gallery has taken a leadership role in providing space for Aboriginal performance and visual art. Their website provides links to a number of important documentary projects including: a First Nations Performance Archive, Brunt Magazine, and The Medicine Project.

Native Earth Performing Arts

Founded in 1982, Native Earth Performing Arts is Canada’s oldest professional Native theatre. It has launched key works by Monique Mojica, Yvette Nolan, Tomson Highway, Drew Hayden Taylor and many others.

Red Sky

Red Sky is a Toronto based dance company established by Sandra Laronde in 2000. The company focuses on touring productions.

Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective

The third manifestation of a Regina, Saskatchewan Aboriginal arts organization, founded in 1991 as Ironbow, later Circle Vision Arts Corporation. Sâkêwêwak reorganized as an artist run centre in 1993, focusing on professional development, artist residencies, exhibitions and other activities. The Sâkêwêwak Storytellers Festival is an annual multidisciplinary festival launched in 2001.

Tribe Inc. a Center for Evolving Aboriginal Media, Visual and Performing Arts

A Saskatoon artist-run centre established in 1995 emphasizing performance art. Tribe facilitates collaborations, events and lectures and is closely associated with renowned performance artist and co-founder Lori Blondeau.

Urban Shaman

Urban Shaman is an artist-run centre in Winnipeg established in 1996 to provide a space for the exhibition and discussion of contemporary Aboriginal art. The gallery has an exemplary exhibition history including some of the most innovative and recognized Indigenous artists in North America.

HISTORIC ART

Splendid Heritage: Treasures of Native American Art

A private collector created an online museum of his remarkable collection. While many of the works were created by women, most were worn and used by men. Exceptions include dolls, dresses, cradle boards. The data base is searchable by region, “tribe” and object. Background information was written by noted experts in the field.

CONTEMPORARY ART

Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art

In 1999, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, received a generous endowment to create fellowships to support contemporary Native arts practice. To date the fellowship has awarded over $500,000 in grants to over 30 artists, including several Canadian women artists such as Dana Claxton, Faith HeavyShield, Shelley Niro and Nadia Myre.

The web site includes galleries of the art created during the fellowships, artist bios and podcasts. (Faye HeavyShield 2009, Sonya Kelliher-Combs 2007, Dana Claxton 2007, Marie Watt 2005, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie 2003, Kay WalkingStick 2003, Nadia Myre 2003, Nora Naranjo-Morse 2003, Susie Silook 2001, Shelley Niro 2001, Teresa Marshall 2001, Marianne Nicholson 1999, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith 1999)



A Time of Visions: Interviews by Larry Abbott. (Pat Deadman, Melanie Printup Hope, Shelley Niro).

ARTIST & CURATOR WEB SITES

K. C. Adams artist website

Rebecca Belmore artist web site

Starting from Home: Dana Claxton artist web site

Marie Clements artist web site

The Art of Rosalie Favell, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC/CCA) web site

Erica Lord artist web site

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie artist website

Ikalluk’s Blog (Tanya Lukin Linklater)

Nancy Marie Mithlo: Current musings on the dilemma of contemporary Native American arts scholarship

Nadia Myre artist web page

Shelley Niro artist residency web page, Native American Indigenous Cinema and Arts, Spring 2008

Skeena Reece artist web site

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