#Art appropriation

[likha-ni-dia]

CW: blood

Ken Amada the goodest boi to ever exist 

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#ken amada #amada ken #persona 3 #Persona 3 Portable #Shin Megami Tensei Persona #persona series #persona fanart #persona 3 fanart #alexandre cabanel #art appropriation #digital art #artists on tumblr #filipino artist #likha ni dia art

[qweenofurheart]

tired

#this week murdered me so i had to draw appropriate art #my art #batman #batfam #batfamily #batman comics #batfam fanart #batfamily fanart #dc comics #dc #dc fanart #jason todd #jason todd fanart #red hood fanart #red hood #dick grayson fanart #dick grayson #nightwing #nightwing fanart

[verflares]

NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

#light dragon #zelda #princess zelda #totk #totk spoilers #loz #loz fanart #blacked out and drew this . she is the tortured babygirl of alltime forever and always. the cosmic unfavourite. love her #ftr the pose here is the dying swan which is very thematically appropriate #but that stupid mandela catalogue/deltarune remix has been stuck in my head bcus i kept listening to it while painting. and well #my art

[sourscratched]

quick comix of the little creatures

#dimension 20 #my art #burrow’s end #burrow’s end spoilers #honestly i think dr. steel is living the dream #just taking a stroll in the radioactive woods when two fuzzy little animals say hi to you and compliment your hair #and theyre even married and know what hats are?? absolutely incredible #anyway I agree with Rashawn and Brennan when knowingly about to break somebody’s reality Hey girl hey is the appropriate greeting

[paxopalotls]

stressed about chem exams so I did a ghost king doodle to cope

#I like the nonconventional crown designs tbh #the stars here are the Corona Australis and Corona Borealis #and ofc I had to throw in some northern lights #bc ice powers duh #I'd probably have added more constellations but I got lazy #there's a few that feel thematically appropriate #like the balance the microscope the hunter the chameleon #to name a few #danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #danny fenton #ghost king danny #ghost king au #pax art #pax doodles

[troutpaws]

crayon fireworks wolf. happy new year!

#wolf #crayon #traditional art #my art #now that i think about it a dragon would be more appropriate #but hope u like this dog

[hrokkall]

Totality

#Warrior cats #Warrior cats art #Sol warrior cats #solar eclipse #Redraw of something from YEARS ago technically... but it also felt thematically appropriate even though I'm not in the path #Anyway sorry for unironic waca fanart in 2024. It will happen again #Hrokkall art #1k #2k

[c-rowlesdraws]

this is one of those, "wait, I seriously haven't posted that to tumblr yet?" drawings, lol. I drew this character months ago when I was thinking I might give making adoptables a shot, but even though that project fizzled out, I still like the designs I drew for it.

This brown hyena character was inspired by the Afrikaans name for the species: "strandwolf", or "beach wolf", due to many of them being coastal scavengers. I imagine her as an eccentric seaside hermit, reclusive by choice but still friendly enough to offer a passing traveler a cup of tea or clam soup.

There is so much sand in her fur always.

#gnoll #brown hyena #character design #anthro #furry #appropriate post for gnollvember #my art

[ato-dato]

I don’t think they’re ugly. But I think the number of times Jean has begged him to buy new clothes is astronomical.

#and this is his work appropriate stuff. think about the stuff that’s too disco to even consider wearing to work. imagine. #I just love the idea of Harry rediscovering his apartment and finding out that green/orange combo was the most normal it’s gonna get #anyway #I have a bunch of de comic ideas but I’m feeling a bit down in the dumps about my art lately #so it thought I should practice drawing him a bit more #disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #harry du bois #harrier du bois #hdb #jean vicquemare #jean viquemare #which one is it??? #kim kitsuragi #de fanart #kimharry #kinda #kim x harry #harry x kim #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing

[beebox-illustrations]

Happy Easter!! ✨🐝

Thought the boys deserved at least one nice, happy Easter egg hunt and in my mind Bobby did so too :)

Have a fantastic Sunday 🌻

#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #on a easter egg hunt #the only age appropriate hunt #bobby singer #being the best as always #easter #oh and all of them are dressed neatly #beebox-illustrations #digital art #illustration #procreate #web comics #my art

[bonesblubs]

Fang Xin Guoshi

#art tag #tgcf #xie lian #lang qianqiu #drew this for patrons months ago and thought it’d be appropriate since season 2 just came out #themb #they make me….

[thelostmoongazer]

yeah he's baby girl or whatever

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #simon petrikov #winter king #winterkov #/ suggestive #yeah dont even look or breathe in my direction #I think i might lean back into posting more suggestive stuff again #nothing super debaucherous but yknow #also i like drawing wk a little bit aged despite him altering his appearance however he likes yknow #give him a tasteful aging and nice graceful wrinkles <3 #moon art #simon x winter king #selfcest #simoncest #i look at those tags and i admitedly hate them fbdhjvfbh but someone asked me to tag it #ive never liked the ''selfcest'' tag cuz it has connotations i dont particularly agree #but if its for the sake of tagging appropriately ill do it whatever

[anna-scribbles]

and if i could give you the moon,

#this one’s been in my drafts for like. ages. #feels narratively appropriate to release it now #moon song is sooooooo relevant to emilie agreste. or the version of her that exists in my head. #(all that anyone has of her is the version of her that exists in their head) #i thought about cleaning this up and then i didn’t👍 #anyway happy friday. happy march. soon #ml #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #emilie agreste #nathalie sancoeur #adrien agreste #my art

[plumadot]

e v e r y t h i n g b u r n s

#iiiiiiiii just wanted to try something different #still in angsty mood #boat boys had such a sad yet appropriate end #plume art #double life smp #traffic smp #boat boys #smalletho

[reasonsforhope]

Article Link

"Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

It’s one step in the company’s larger work to deal with its history of cultural appropriation. The Minneapolis-based company launched in the 1940s as a small business making souvenirs for roadside gift shops in the region—including Native American-inspired moccasins, though the business wasn’t started or run by Native Americans. The moccasins soon became its biggest seller.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

Adrienne Benjamin, an Anishanaabe artist and community activist who became the company’s “reconciliation advisor,” was initially reluctant when a tribal elder approached her about meeting with the company. Other activists had dismissed the idea that the company would do the work to truly transform. But Benjamin agreed to the meeting, and the conversation convinced her to move forward.

“I sensed a genuine commitment to positive change,” she says. “They had really done their homework as far as understanding and acknowledging the wrong and the appropriation. I think they knew for a long time that things needed to get better, and they just weren’t sure what a first step was.”

Pictured: Lucie Skjefte and son Animikii [Photo: Minnetonka]

In 2020, Minnetonka publicly apologized “for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities.” It also said that it was actively recruiting Native Americans to work at the company, reexamining its branding, looking for Native-owned businesses to partner with, continuing to support Native American nonprofits, and that it planned to collaborate with Native American artists and designers.

Benjamin partnered with the company on the first collaboration, a collection of hand-beaded hats, and then recruited the Minneapolis-based designer Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation, who designed the beadwork for another moccasin style and a pair of slippers for the brand. Skjefte says that she felt comfortable working with the company knowing that it had already done work with Benjamin on reconciliation. And she wasn’t a stranger to the brand. “Our grandmothers and our mothers would always look for moccasins in a clutch kind of situation where they didn’t have a pair ready and available to make on their own—then they would buy Minnetonka mocs and walk into a traditional pow wow and wear them,” she says. Her mother, she says, who passed away in 2019, would have been “immensely proud” that Skjefte’s design work was part of the moccasins—and on the new version of the Thunderbird moccasin, one of the company’s top-selling styles.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

“I started thinking about all of those stories, and what resonated with me visually,” Skjefte says. The redesign, she says, is much more detailed and authentic than the previous version. “Through the redesign and beading process, we are actively reclaiming and reconnecting our Animikii or Thunderbird motif with its Indigenous roots,” she says. Skjefte will earn royalties for the design, and Minnetonka will also separately donate a portion of the sale of each shoe to Mni Sota Fund, a nonprofit that helps Native Americans in Minnesota get training and capital for home ownership and entrepreneurship.

Some companies go a step farther—Manitobah Mukluks, based in Canada, has an Indigenous founder and more than half Indigenous staff. (While Minnetonka is actively recruiting more Native American workers, the company says that employees self-report race and it can’t share any data about its current number of Indigenous employees.) Beyond its own line of products, Manitobah also has an online Indigenous Market that features artists who earn 100% of the profit for their work.

White Bear Moccasins, a Native-owned-and-made brand in Montana, makes moccasins from bison hide. Each custom pair can take six to eight hours to make; the shoes cost hundreds of dollars, though they can also be repaired and last as long as a lifetime, says owner Shauna White Bear. In interviews, White Bear has said that she wants “to take our craft back,” from companies like Minnetonka. But she also told Fast Company that she doesn’t think that Minnetonka, as a family-owned business, should have to lose its livelihood now and stop making moccasins.

The situation is arguably different for other fashion brands that might use a Native American symbol—or rip off a Native American design completely—on a single product that could easily be taken off the market. Benjamin says that she has also worked with other companies that have discontinued products.

She sees five steps in the process of reconciliation. First, the person or company who did wrong has to acknowledge the wrong. Then they need to publicly apologize, begin to change behavior, start to rebuild trust, and then, eventually, the wronged party might take the step of forgiveness. Right now, she says, Minnetonka is in the third phase of behavior change. The brand plans to continue to collaborate with Native American designers.

The company can be an example to others on how to listen and build true relationships, Benjamin says. “I think that’s the only way that these relationships are going to get any better—people have to sit down and talk about it,” she says. “People have to be real. People have to apologize. They have to want to reconcile with people.”

The leadership at Minnetonka can also be allies in pushing other companies to do better. “My voice is important at the table as an Indigenous woman,” Benjamin says. “Lucie’s voice is important. But at tables where there’s a majority of people that aren’t Indigenous, sometimes those allies’ voices are more powerful in those spaces, because that means that they’ve signed on to what we’re saying. The power has signed on to moving forward and we agree with ‘Yes, this was wrong.’ That’s the stuff that’s going to change [things] right there.”"

-via FastCompany, February 7, 2024

#indigenous #indigenous artists #indigenous art #moccasins #thunderbird #native american #native american art #cultural appropriation #indigenous peoples #cultural representation #minnesota #minnetonka #minneapolis #red lake nation #ojibwe #anishinaabe #reconciliation #fashion #fashion news #good news #hope #indigenous designers #native artist #indigenous artist

[critter-of-habit]

A couple of weeks on Peridea and Shin is going a little stir-crazy

#just follows Sabine around like a lost puppy tbh #Ahsoka series #Sabine Wren #Shin Hati #Wolfwren #Mine #art #SW Art #SWArt #I know there's probably a more gffa appropriate word than Gremlin but #you can't do better than gremlin #.