Controversy: Is this art cultural appropriation?
A Toronto gallery has cancelled an exhibit over criticism the artist is inappropriately “borrowing” from spiritually significant indigenous art. The Visions Gallery, where…
Posts Tagged 'indigenous art'
Ursula Johnson: Cultural Cocoon
Ursula Johnson, finalist for the 2017 Sobey Art Award, is an emerging performance and installation artist of Mi’kmaw First Nation ancestry. …
Activist Indigenous Art
Editor’s Note: With the election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, hope for a national inquiry into missing and murdered…
The ingenious bentwood box
First Nations artisans specialize in making these steam bent cedar boxes, an ingenious woodworking technique that originated centuries ago on…
Yuxweluptun’s Neo-Native Style
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish heritage, is a Vancouver-based purveyor of politically activist indigenous art.
