Winter/Spring Art Guide '09

Newfoundland

Oh So Iroquois until May 3, 2009
The Rooms, Newfoundland – www.therooms.ca

Quebec

LORE – May 9 – July 4, 2009
Foreman Art Gallery, Lennoxville.
Curator: Ryan Rice
Artists: Tania Willard, Duane Linklater and Jason Lujan
www.ubishops.ca/foreman/

Hochelaga Revisited - March 19 – April 25, 2009
M.A.I. (Montreal, Arts Interculturel)
Curator: Ryan Rice
Artists: Lori Blondeau, Jason Baerg, Nadia Myre, Ariel Lightningchild Smith, Cathy Mattes and Martin Loft
www.m-a-i.qc.ca

Ontario

Scout’s Honour – July 13 – September 2009
London Museum
Guest Curator: Ryan Rice?
Artists: Michael Belmore and Frank Shebageget
www.museumlondon.ca

REMIX: NEW MODERNITIES IN A POST-INDIAN WORLD
Art Gallery of Ontario
April 4–August 23, 2009
Toronto, Ontario
www.ago.net

Until March 22, Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists, a group exhibition, drawn from the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the National Gallery of Canada, explores representations of Aboriginal people by Aboriginal artists. The works of 12 celebrated Aboriginal artists will be shown, including KC Adams, Carl Beam, Dana Claxton, Thirza Cuthand, Rosalie Favell, Kent Monkman, David Neel, Shelley Niro, Arthur Renwick, Greg Staats, Jeff Thomas and Bear Witness. From the whimsical to the reverential, the poignant to the political, these artists refashion the view of Native people not only by way of the camera lens, but also through their own cultural perspectives. Organized and presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. For more information about the exhibition, read the press kit available in the NGC and CMCP’s press room at www.gallery.ca/english/1811.htm

Saskatchewan

Visit The Red Shift Gallery. For what’s on visit: www.redshiftgallery.com

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MacKenzie Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
www.mackenzieartgallery.ca

Manitoba

Visit Urban Shaman Gallery – For what’s on: www.urbanshaman.org

British Columbia

How Soon Is Now?
February 7 – May 3, 2009
Vancouver Art Gallery
Includes work by Sonny Assu
www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

USA

TRESPASSING December 5, 2008 to March 22, 2009
Whatcom Museum,
1892 Old City Hall Building
and Allied Arts Gallery
Bellingham, Washington 98225

Dana Claxton: Printmaking with our relatives down south asumapping.wordpress.com/

What To Read

Journal essays, articles, etc…

Aboriginal New Media Arts www.thenaica.org/edition_nine/word/newmedia/newmedia.htm

Books

Richard W. Hill – World Upside Down
Coproduced with Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Musee d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec

This catalog accompanies World Upside Down, an exhibition curated by Richard William Hill that originated at the Walter Phillips Gallery in September 2006. The catalog surveys the strategy of “symbolic inversion” used by contemporary artists, while also providing historical context on Western and Indigenous North American traditions of inversion.

ISBN: 978-1-894773-28-7
176 pages, hardcover
21 b/w, 43 colour photographs
19 x 28.5 cm
$29.99

Polly Nordstrand - [Re]inventing the Wheel includes papers by Edgar Heap of Birds, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Mithlo, Polly Nordstrand, W. Jackson Rushing, and Alfred Young Man, with an introduction by Nancy Blomberg and DVD of Inciting Memory: the Creative Process of HOCK E AYE VI Edgar Heap of Birds. Published by the Denver Art Museum

Nancy Mithlo -Beyond the Squaw Princess: Reclaiming American Indian Imagery Are images and representations central to understanding Native Americans? How do Native artists, as producers of visual culture, respond to what art critic Lucy Lippard has called “the overwhelming burdens” of Indian art? In this pathbreaking study, anthropologist Nancy Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.Addressing the question of how visual referents communicate across cultural divides, she aims to deconstruct the common understanding of stereo- types and suggest that they may play a role in conveying otherness. By using phrases such as “strategic essentialism” and “conventional representations,” she analyzes the ways in which disparate groups tend to employ damaged knowledges in trying to communicate their own values and those of contrasting groups, especially when other conceptual tools are unavailable.
Paper, ISBN 978-1-930618-97-8, School of Advanced Research

Michael Sheyahshe – Native Americans in Comics: A Critical Study

Opportunities

The Banff Centre – Work Study Opportunities

Live and learn in the inspiring Canadian Rockies. The Banff Centre's work study program provides internship-style opportunities that attract talented and creative individuals who are seeking opportunities to enhance their education and pursue a career in the arts.

Visual Arts is currently seeking candidates for the following positions:

Visual Arts: Aboriginal Curatorial Work Study
Program dates: May 4, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Application deadline: March 11, 2009
(Applicants must be status, non-status, Métis, or Inuit)

Visual Arts: Aboriginal Arts Administration Work Study
Program dates: May 4, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Application deadline: March 11, 2009
(Applicants must be status, non-status, Métis, or Inuit)

Visual Arts: Aboriginal Preparatorial Work Study
Program dates: August 31, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Application deadline: June 26, 2009
(Applicants must be status, non-status, Métis, or Inuit)

Other internships are also available, visit www.banffcentre.ca/
for details.

For more information and to apply:
The Banff Centre, Office of the Registrar
Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.6180 or 1.800.565.9989

National Gallery of Canada, Research Fellowships Program

2009/2010 The Research Fellowships Program of the National Gallery of Canada encourages and supports advanced research. The fellowships emphasize the use and investigation of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, including those of the Gallery’s Library and Archives. 2009/2010 competitive fellowships are offered in the field of Canadian Art including the Indigenous Art of Canada; European and Modern Art; and Art Conservation.

Applications are welcomed from art historians, curators, critics, independent researchers, conservators, conservation scientists and other professionals in the visual arts, museology and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, who have a graduate degree or equivalent publication history. The fellowships are open to international competition.

Deadline: 30 April 2009

For application procedures, please consult the website: www.gallery.ca
or contact:

Jonathan Franklin
Chief, Library, Archives and Research Fellowships Program
National Gallery of Canada
P.O. Box 427, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 9N4
Canada

telephone (613) 990-0590
fax (613) 990-6190
fellowships@gallery.ca