Category Archives: First Nations Art
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Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part I
Breaking News Indigenous protests win Victory over Pipeline August 30 2018 We cried every day as we followed the tragedy of the Orca mother Tahlequah holding her dead baby for 17 days. The pod she belongs to has not had a successful birth in several years, this baby died immediately after it was born. […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2018 and is filed under ecology, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
Art AIDS America at the Tacoma Art Museum on World AIDS Day
On this World AIDS Day, I offer a review of the comprehensive exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum, Art AIDS America. It includes 127 works, many media, and a thesis that artists who addressed AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s permanently changed the course of American art by demonstrating strategies to address political issues.
This entry was posted on December 1, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, democracy, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
Led by Indigenous voices, all ages protest Arctic Drilling
From Indigenous poets to Raging Grannies, from children and youth to college students, to people of every age, everyone is participating in the protest of Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling platform with creative non violent civil disobedience at its best
This entry was posted on June 11, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, ecology, First Nations Art, Indigenous Art, Seattle Art, Uncategorized. -
Part II Haida Gwaii: Thanks, But No Tanks
Thanks No Tanks an art exhibition in Haida Gwaii, BC, protests plans for oil tankers of tar sands to pass through Hecate Straits. The Haida are protesting with body, mind and spirit. The coastal ecology is the same as Puget Sound, where the tankers are also proposed to pass by.
This entry was posted on August 28, 2013 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, economic imperialism vs democracy, First Nations Art, Gulf Oil Spill.
