In Museums After Modernism, Robert Houle discusses the polemics of exhibiting cultures at institutions such as the Louvre, National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Museum of the American Indian."other."
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Norval Morrisseau died December 4, 2007 at the Toronto General Hospital of complications from Parkinson's disease. Named after a powerful and fantastic celestial cultural hero in Anishnabe mythology, Norval was indeed Copper Thunderbird. Apart from the romantic and exotic resonance of this spiritual name, it also signified a cultural context with which his magnificent artistic output could be framed.
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SHOUT OUTS    

Congratulations to ACC members; Greg Hill - appointed as Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada; Steven Loft to be first Aboriginal curator-in-residence at the National Gallery of Canada; Jenny Western will be replacing Steve at Urban Shaman; to Bonnie Devine for her hard work and coordination of the WITNESS: A Woodland School of Art Symposium; thanks to Frank Shebageget for his hard work and time for coordinating and installing Michelle Lavallee’s Making Space / Sharing Place, the ACC’s first exhibition partnership initiative with Gallery 101; to Michelle Lavallee, who is now Assistant Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery.

The ACC sends our sincere thank you to Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson, Daina Warren, Jason Baerg, TRIBE Inc., and all those who volunteered and worked hard to make the Corralling Art Symposium a success, as well as Saskatoon’s art community for their hospitality. Nia:wen Ko:wa.

Our thoughts and wishes go out to performance artist James Luna and curator Joanna Bigfeather who lost their home, and everything inside, from the fires that burned through San Diego County in California. James and Joanna are fine, and happy to announce his studio and tractor survived. Donations can be made to the Phoenix Fund: send your contributions to James Luna or Circuit Network, 2940 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103. For more information contact: Nola Mariano and Elisabeth Beaird at 415-863-2441.