Ten Little Indians.
This show brings together senior, emerging and junior First Nations artists in an open studio-gallery format. Junior artists may benefit from interaction with senior and the public may interact with artists working in a setting open to all. Working in diverse media, from stacks of stones to data bases, these contemporary artists will address stereotypes and past, present and future aboriginal issues from the vantage of 2001, the dawn of the new millennium.
Colleen Cutschall, began training with noted painter Oscar Howe in the 1960s. Graduating with a B.F.A. from Barat College in Illinois in 1973, and an M.S.Ed. from Black Hills State College in 1976. Professor Cutsctall has taught and worked extensively in integrated curriculum development.
Louis Ogemah, Anishnaabe/Ojibwe, has a tasteful and elegant web site addressing the healing of hurts inflicted by residential schools. His contribution to this show consisted of four large narrative painting that reference traditional anishnaabe style and spirituality.
Skawennati Tricia Fragnito is a curator and artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design Art Major) and a Graduate Diploma of Institutional Administration (Arts Specialization) from Concordia University. She served four years on the board at Oboro, artist-run centre in Montreal.
Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Blackfoot/Kainai, is an iconoclast and a first lady of Canadian aboriginal Art. Reflecting a personal strategy of ironic humour she continues to examine the relative body politic of historical truths
Justin Cardinal-Schubert is a painter, animator and new media artist whose works are light-hearted and refreshing. His mother is Joane Cardinal-Schubert and his uncle is Douglas Cardinal.
Lance Belanger is Maliceet from New Brunswick who stands out with his minimalist expression of a broad world view. He has curated at the Smithsonian institute.
Arthur Renwick is part of a new generation of First Nations artists active in diverse areas of the fine art system, using it to obtain greater exposure and a more nuanced level of discourse on Native issues.
Burton Amos is a poet from Kitimat B.C. He has also worked with his brother Arthur Renwick for the show Native Love.
Cynthia Lickers, is the director of the Centre for Aboriginal Media in Toronto. Cynthia looks after distribution of native videos for V Tape and makes art. She is also a dynamic organizer and spearheads the annual imagiNative Media Festival
Mike MacDonald is an internationally recognized installation artist whose pieces are direct, evocative presentations in defense of nature. Best known for his video he also does photography, works on the world-wide-web and has been planting gardens that attract butterflies on the grounds of museums and galleries across the country.