Emily Carr Alumni and Faculty to Receive REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards
Posted on April 19, 2017 | Emily Carr Stories
Several Emily Carr alumni and faculty will soon be receiving an award unlike any seen before in Canada. Created by the Hnatyshyn Foundation, the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards are intended to honour emerging and established Indigenous artists and to fuel future Indigenous arts practice.
Of the 150 artists selected, eight are Emily Carr alumni and faculty. The...
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2016Ogema : I Am Woman, curated by Lea Toulouse. This exhibition on Indigenous women and leadership presents the work of six First Nations women artists. Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, opening Wed March 9 2016, 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition will be shown until March 29 2016.
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2015CityScape Community Art Space is excited to present the third biennial exhibition, Pushing Boundaries, highlighting emerging and professional First Nations artists. Sixteen artists from across the Lower Mainland and beyond push the traditional cultural boundaries by creating unique contemporary works that have traditional association or have used traditional mediums that have a contemporary aesthetic. This dynamic and thought-provoking exhibition features the themes of home,...
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2015Inspired by my late eldest sister Valerie’s star blankets, and the traditional Anishinabek teachings from our mother and grandmother. Our traditions remain constant. We express our teachings in new ways and art forms.
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2015Recent work: In March 2016, I exhibited two portrait paintings of Chiefs and Matriarchs of my ancestral Anishinabe grandparents, political leaders and medicine people for a curated group exhibition to raise the status of Indigenous women and leadership. This exhibition was titled Ogema: I Am Woman, exhibited at the Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, curated by my daughter Lea Toulouse, for her Master in Curatorial studies at UBC.
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2013Congradulations to my daughter Lea Toulouse, she assisted in forming The Teen Program at Emily Carr. The teens voted my workshop as the best instructor and most apprected class!
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2012I have a painting in an important group exhibition at Thunder Bay Art Gallery to May 27. The Lay of the Land with works by Carl Beam, Henry Beaudry, Bob Boyer, Julius Cook, Greg Hill, Robert Houle, Gerald McMaster, Margaret Mitchell, and Janice Toulouse.
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2012Roundhouse Vancouver 2012 (Panorama photo C.Randle)
Nay'-chem Was The Talking Stick Exhibition, Roundhous Art Centre. 9 local Indigenous artists exhibited their own version of the Talking Stick. Rebecca Belmore, Lance Cardinal, Merritt Johnson, Peter Morin, Dionne Paul, Michelle Sylliboy, Janice Toulouse, Charlene Vickers, and Xwalacktun (Rick Harry). Curated by Janice Toulouse