#indigenous contemporary art

[piizunn]

ᓄᐦᑕᐃᐧᕀ ᐊᐢᑯᑖᐢᑯᐱᓱᐣ nohtawiy askotâskopison, My Father’s Cradleboard by Morgan Possberg Denne

The New Gallery, November 18 - December 22, 2023

“Cradleboards have been used for thousands of years by our ancestors to carry and love for our future generations. They have protected us, acted as an external womb, and given us a place as children to watch our parents' culture and learn from a safe distance. I’ve always wondered if the fact that neither my father, his father, or myself was ever put in a cradleboard may have had a long term impact on our development, personhood, and our coping mechanisms to the ways that colonialism, residential schools and the foster care system has affected my family.

Now as an adult I deeply wish I could rewind the clock and put myself, and my father before me, and his father before him in a cradleboard as a child. To softly sing songs to us, give us safety, and to give us a connection to our culture in a safe environment. Maybe this would fix things. As kids when we were supposed to be kept safe and playing in the woods we were instead being prepped for the meat factory - the eternal meat grinder of colonialism.

The western world teaches us to push aside this childhood imagining and innocence - “These things can’t be undone!”, but what if they could? In another world somebody took better care of us, in another time we learned to drum and sing and dance, in another place we were listened to by adults who had the capacity to love and care for us.

These hot chest and aching throat feelings, the times of biting back angry tears and saying “It’s fine” have to count for something….right?”

“Morgan Possberg Denne is Two-Spirit millennial scoop and foster care survivor; with settler, Cree, Metis, and Chippewa blood connections. They have grown up in treaty 7 territory, and have relatives in southern and northern Ontario. Morgan creates imaginative, illustrative objects which could be seen as pieces of possible narratives, different ways to connect with the past and potential futures through layers of abstraction with no right or wrong answer. What matters to them is not accurately recreating the past or to predict the future, but rather to capture an inner truth and a possible alternative reality of colonial experiences. In a sense, creating new culture from a series of “what-ifs” and new stories / lore. Their work has been recently shown at the Confederation Centre for the Arts and Gallery Gachet.”

(Photos belong to me and the description and artist bio are courtesy of The New Gallery’s website)

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1. a large wall hanging made from fish leather,

2. a close up of the same piece. the artwork has faint text cut out of the green tea tanned fish that reads “hey it’s not your fault, you know that right?”

3. a photo of the space showing a video projected onto several fish skins, a table with a vest and a hat made of fish leather, and on the table are cartons made from rawhide.

4. a coatrack on which are a rawhide hunting ruffle and rawhide fishing net resembling a badminton racket

5. a shelf seen in the background of image 3 containing a astro-turf shirt, a hand gun and pocket knife made from rawhide and a fish leather circular clip with a piece of dark hair hanging off the shelf.]

#my picks #morgan is a dear friend of mine <3 #they taught me how to tan fish leather! #art #indigenous art #cree #métis #chippewa #canadian art #contemporary art #indigenous contemporary art #curation #artist run centre #artists #fish leather #leather #rawhide #traditional art #sculpture #installation #video art #my images

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Ogimaa Mikana. Don’t be shy to speak Anishinaabemowin when it’s time. Bayfield St., Barrie, Ontario; Biskaabiiyang. North Bay, Ontario; Untitled (All Walls Crumble). Ottawa, Ontario; Anishinaabe manoomin inaakonigewin gosha. Peterborough, Ontario.

Ogimaa Mikana is an artist collective founded by Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching) and Hayden King (Anishinaabe, Gchi’mnissing) in January 2013. Through public art, site-specific intervention, and social practice, we assert Anishinaabe self-determination on the land and in the public sphere.

The Ogimaa Mikana Project is an effort to restore Anishinaabemowin place-names to the streets, avenues, roads, paths, and trails of Gichi Kiiwenging (Toronto) - transforming a landscape that often obscures or makes invisible the presence of Indigenous peoples. Starting with a small section of Queen St., re-naming it Ogimaa Mikana (Leader's Trail) in tribute to all the strong women leaders of the Idle No More movement, the project hopes to expand throughout downtown and beyond.

“The Anishinaabeg endure. We do so through settler colonial time, and across space.  We do so in contention. Untitled (All Walls Crumble) considers this movement. To be Indigenous in the city is so often a struggle for recognition, to be seen, and to resist the erasure that is common in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, etc. Yet with recognition also comes appropriation and co-optation. In this unease, we consider the benefits of erasure, or at least, covert movement. Inspired by stories of our relatives and ancestors counting coup, and Basil Johnson’s description of warfare more generally, the Ogimaa Mikana Project considers the tension between visibility and invisibility to challenge settler colonial logic. Against a crumbling wall holding up Ottawa’s major highway - scheduled for demolition and replacement - we draw attention to the ways the settler state recycles itself, and by extension, affirms its legitimacy. We see it and resist in provocative ways that mirror a there/not there presence. Against this crumbling wall, we reclaim space for an anti-recognition: to speak to each other, as Anishinaabeg, as communities pushed out by gentrification, as the colonized, and offer a refrain and a sign of defiance: “Wakayakoniganag da pangishin. Nin d'akiminan kagige oga ahindanize.”

#Ogimaa Mikana #susan blight #Hayden King #anishinaabeg #anishinaabe #Anishinaabe artist #anishinaabeg artists #Anishinaabe Art #indigenous art #INDIGENOUS CONTEMPORARY ART #contemporary art #public art #place-naming #intervention #art intervention #contemporary anishinaabe art #indigenous collective #indigenous artist collective #Anishinaabemowin

[desiirepath]

Little swamp on the way to Obun by Indigenous artist Waal-Waal Ngallametta (1944-2019)

#art #contemporary art #indigenous art #artist

[dovejuice]

“Deer Dance” Oscar Howe. Casein on paper. 1960

#Oscar Howe #indigenous art #contemporary art #painting

[oncanvas]

Waiting for the Bus (Anadarko Princess), T. C. Cannon, 1977

Lithograph on paper 30 ⅛ x 22 ½ in. (76.5 x 57.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

#art #painting #tc cannon #contemporary art #20th century #indigenous art #native american art #1970s #lithograph #print #smithsonian american art museum #kiowa #caddo

[pagansphinx]

Shonto Begay, (Navajo, b. 1954) • Homeward Bound • 2016 • Acrylic on canvas • Medicine Man Gallery

#shonto begay #navajo artist #native american painter #art #painting #fine art #art history #21st century art #contemporary painting #acrylic painting #art blog #pagan sphinx art blog #american artist #native american heritage month #indigenous artist #navajo nation

[earthpiecevii]

Luke Parnell, Bear Mother, 2019, Digital Drawing, Inkjet on 100% Cotton Rag Paper

#Luke parnell #art #contemporary art #artist #contemporary artist #canadian art #indigenous #indigenous art #indigenous artist #digital art #Wilp Laxgiik Nisga’a #Nisga’a #Haida #northwest costal art

[supersonicart]

"Indigenous Americans" at STRAAT Gallery.

Currently on view at the STRAAT Museum and gallery in Amsterdam, Netherlands is the group exhibition, "Indigenous Americans: Post Colonial Expressions." This exceptional exhibition features the work of four eminent contemporary artists of Native American heritage, including Jaque Fragua, Danielle SeeWalker, Kaplan Bunce, and Anthony Garcia Sr.

In line with the institution's enduring commitment to familiarizing the public with the multifarious dimensions of global street art and graffiti culture, this exhibition pays tribute to a less-recognized subculture therein. "Indigenous Americans: Post Colonial Expressions" addresses the unifying spirit that pervades a culturally diverse society, while also highlighting the deep-seated historical connections of Indigenous artists and their continued engagement with public space painting.

Kaplan Bunce, one of the participating artists, has remarked, "To me, the contemporary urban art landscape resembles a fusion of culture-rich exchanges of artistic practices from around the world. I perceive unity within the community, and by perpetually embracing my Indigenous identity in these spaces, I am forging ahead on a path created by those who have left their marks on walls since time immemorial."

The exhibition is on view until June 11th, 2023.

THE SUPERSONIC ART SHOP | FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM

#art #painting #indigenous americans #native american #native american art #fine art #contemporary art #straat museum #kaplan bunce

[bumblehaven]

An update >:)

#indigenous art #indigenous artist #wip #acrylic on wood #mixed media #acrylic painting #queer artist #bumblehaven #my art #painting #contemporary art #female artist #twospirit #cree #michif #otipemisiwak #artist on tumblr #artists on tumblr #emerging artist

[old-powwow-days]

Caribou, 2015

Mixed Media on canvas, 20"x16"

Jane Ash Poitras

#Jane Ash Poitras #Cree #contemporary art #mixed media #Indigenous Art #2015 #original scans

[glowingcritter]

Intrinsically Connected by Madeline McBride (Cherokee Nation), 2024

#ndn #indigenous #indigenous history #indigenous art #contemporary indigenous art

[piizunn]

enn rooz | mihkokwaniy | rose (2023)

13 cm by 11 cm

a free form medallion i beaded for my graduation outfit! referencing Métis floral beadwork to honour my culture

#pls reblog haha #beadwork #my work #métis beadwork #indigenous art #métis art #otipemisiwak #michif #indigenous #contemporary art #indigenous contemporary art #rose #wild rose #material culture #canadian art #canadian contemporary art #beading #beader

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Annie Pootoogook | Lovers’ Embrace. 2004

I keep coming back to Annie. An incomparable artist and storyteller. She is deeply missed but her genius, care and strength lives on through the worlds she drew. 

#annie pootoogook #inuit #inuit art #contemporary inuit art #indigenous art #INDIGENOUS CONTEMPORARY ART #drawing #contemporary drawing #inuit drawing #indigenous drawing #pencil crayon #lovers embrace

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBearDay:

White Spirit Bears by Apache elder Judy Tallwing (b. 1945), 2012. Resin/silver/garnet/sterling/acrylic/copper/diamonds on canvas. From American Visionary Art Museum's "The Secret Life of Earth" show in 2019.

BTW "Spirit Bear" aka "Ghost Bear" aka Moksgm'ol isn't a Polar Bear; it's a rare white morph (NOT albino) of the Kermode Bear, a subspecies of American Black Bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) endemic to coastal British Columbia. It's BC's official mammal & sacred to the region's First Nations peoples.

Mother and cub at Spirit Bear Lodge, Klemtu, BC. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

#Spirit Bear #Ghost Bear #Moksgm'ol #Kermode Bear #American Black Bear #bear #bears #World Bear Day #contemporary art #2010s #American art #Indigenous art #American Visionary Art Museum #The Secret Life of Earth #museum visit #exhibition #painting #mixed media #wildlife art #animal holiday #zoology #mammalogy #taxonomy #color morph #animals in art

[jadeseadragon]

Autumn Skye 🎨🖌 @autumnskyeart

The Fellowship, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 36 × 18 inches.

#autumn skye #women artists #contemporary art #wildlife #bear #bears #salmon #eagle #sealion #indigenous americans

[distantobserver0]

Aurora Meets Kokopelli, beadwork by Margaret Nazon

#beadwork #space art #indigenous #indigenous art #northwest territories #bead art #space #science art #blue #abstractart #modern art #contemporary art #aurora #northern lights