ART and POLITICS NOW – Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

Tag Archives: Haida

A valuable conversation of past and present: Three Special Exhibitions of Indigenous Art in Seattle

Three exhibitions offer a conversation about native creativity, its history, its extraordinary media, and the contemporary artists in the Northwest who continue to honor and alter it.

This entry was posted on March 20, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture and Human rights, indians, Indigenous Art, Lillian Pitt.

Tags: "Here and Now", "Indigenous Beauty", "Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection", "She Who Watches", Burke Museum, Diker Collection, Duwamish, Haida, Idle No More, Lillian Pitt, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Nampeyo, Preston Singletary, Sasha LaPointe, Seattle Art Museum
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.

Tags: Enbridge, Haida, Haida Gwaii, Haida Gwaii Heritage Center, protest, Tankers, Tar Sands