Title:
Dreaming our futures : Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ artists and knowledge keepers / texts by Brenda J. Child, Patricia Marroquin Norby, Christopher Pexa, Mona Susan Power, Diane Wilson ; curated by Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky with Christopher Pexa ; translators: Baabiitaw Boyd, Šišóka Dúta, Benay McNamara.
ISBN:
9781517914974
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : Katherine E. Nash Gallery, in association with the George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, at the University of Minnesota, [2024]
Minneapolis, MN : Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press
©2024
Physical Description:
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm
General Note:
"Editors: Brenda J. Child, Howard Oransky" -- Colophon.
"Artists: Frank Big Bear, David Bradley, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Andrea Carlson, Avis Charley, Fern Cloud, Michelle Defoe, Jim Denomie, Patrick DesJarlait, Sam English, Carl Gawboy, Joe Geshick, Sylvia Houle, Oscar Howe, Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.), George Morrison, Steven Premo, Rabbett Before Horses Strickland, Cole Redhorse Taylor, Roy Thomas, Jonathan Thunder, Thomasina TopBear, Moira Villiard, Kathleen Wall, Star WallowingBull, Dyani White Hawk, Bobby Dues Wilson, Leah H. Yellowbird, Holly Young" -- Back cover.
Contents:
A Vast Field of Feathers : Preface / Howard Oransky -- My Two Cities : Images, Absences, and Genocide in Minnesota / Brenda J. Child -- Painting Medicine : George Morrison's Big Water Magic / Patricia Marroquin Norby -- Tokátakiya Uŋkíhaŋbdapi : We Dream Toward the Future / Christopher Pexa -- Indigenous Futurism : The Restorative Vision of Andrea Carlson / Mona Susan Power -- Jim Denomie at Home / Diane Wilson -- Dreaming Our Futures : Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers / Frank Big Bear, David Bradley, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Andrea Carlson, Avis Charley, Fern Cloud, Michelle Defoe, Jim Denomie, Patrick DesJarlait, Sam English, Carl Gawboy, Joe Geshick, Sylvia Houle, Oscar Howe, Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.), George Morrison, Steven Premo, Rabbett Before Horses Strickland, Cole Redhorse Taylor, Roy Thomas, Jonathan Thunder, Thomasina TopBear, Moira Villiard, Kathleen Wall, Star WallowingBull, Dyani White Hawk, Bobby Dues Wilson, Leah H. Yellowbird, Holly Young -- Artist Biographies -- Contributor Biographies -- Notes and Sources -- Photographic Credits.
Summary:
"'Dreaming Our Futures' features twenty-nine Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who live in the Upper Midwest region or have family or tribal connections there. The artists represent a range of generations, professional experience, and genres, and their work embraces traditional, historical, contemporary, and conceptual themes. Along with full-color reproductions of works by each painter, this volume includes bilingual artist statements, biographies, essays (on the representation of Indigenous people in historical context, and storytelling and the creative process), and new scholarship on several specific artists" -- Back cover.
Subject Term:
Language Note:
In English, with bilingual artist statements in Ojibwe, Dakota, and Lakota.
OCLC Number:
on1401162162
Availability:
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