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Boozhoo
Aaniin! (Anishinaabe), Welcome! (English), Bienvenue (French),
She:kon (Mohawk), Tansi (Cree), Tanshi (Metis), Wotziye
(Dene), Oki (Blackfoot),
Keshi (Zuni), Ya’at’teeh (Navajo), Osiyo (Cherokee),
Howka, (Kumeyaay), Wey-tk (Secwepemc),
Aiokpanchi (Houma), Quai. Eptjelase! (Mi’Kmaq),
Dalanghl Askadung! (Haida), Hadi H (Wet’suwet’en),
Tlax Weak’e Hat Yiy.Adi! (Kliget), Eech-Aul-Ih-Al?
(Coast Salish),
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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.
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MARY ANNE BARKHOUSE
ARTIST PROFILE
Mary
Anne Barkhouse was born in 1961 in Vancouver, BC. She
belongs to the Nimpkish band, Kwakiutl First Nation
and is a descendant of a long line of internationally
recognized artists that includes Ellen Neel, Mungo Martin
and Charlie James.
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In Lost and
Found in Translation: Language and Contemporary Indigenous
Art, critic and curator Richard
W. Hill discusses the
profound effect language has on contemporary visual
culture.
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Professor and curator, Nancy
Marie Mithlo provides an insightful look at finding
a place within the “institution” in her
article for the ACC - Being and
Belonging: the State of the Field.
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Presented at the Native American Art
Studies Association in 2005, artist Juane
Quick-to-See-Smith provides an insightful and
critical glimpse on collecting in “Where
Are All The Great Collections of Contemporary Native
American Art? …Are The Barbarians At The Gate?”
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John Moses,
conservator and researcher at the Canadian Museum of
Civilization presented his concerns at the Canadian
Conservation Institute’s symposium in Ottawa this
past September regarding the under-representation of
Native peoples working in the range of the heritage-related
professions, specifically conservation,
and suggests these needs should be addressed by special
measures
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WINTER ART GUIDE '07
This summer, seek out, enjoy and support
Aboriginal Art and related activities across Turtle
Island and beyond.
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