Please join us on Monday, April 2nd 8:00am-7:00pm for this once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Woodland Cultural Centre where you will experience First Nations art and culture, and meet two of Canada’s most prominent contemporary artists of Native ancestry.
Meet Canada’s first Aboriginal art curator. As a curator, writer, art historian, artist, and arts administrator, Tom Hill has been a driving force behind the development of Aboriginal visual arts in Canada since his involvement with the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67. Take this opportunity to gain insight into the experience of Aboriginal artists from the visionary who has been in the forefront of altering the perception of contemporary First Nations art in Canada from “crafted art” to fine art which is integrated into the Canadian artistic mainstream.
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Tom V. Hill
Photo courtesy of the Woodland Cultural Centre
Meet the artist who created this well-known image that is one of many from Shelley Niro’s body of work to comment on modern Aboriginal identity, and to challenge, often with humour, the stereotypical images of Aboriginal peoples. Shelley Niro is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in a variety of media, including photography, painting, film, and beadwork.
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Shelley Niro as Marilyn Monroe
The 500 Year Itch 1992
Gelatin silver print with applied
colour, mounted on Masonite
© Shelley Niro
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Shelley Niro in her Brantford studio
which we will visit on this tour
To add to the memorable day on the Six Nations Reserve, a lunch based on Virginia General’s best-loved Native recipes will be served by Family Traditions of the Grand.
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Virginia General
The Woodland Cultural Centre has an extensive exhibition and publishing program. The many illustrated catalogues, which document their contemporary art shows, are available for purchase.
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Installation photo from the exhibition,
Forced to Make a Stand, at the Woodland Cultural Centre,
August to October 2011.
Photo courtesy of the Woodland Cultural Centre
For more information on the Woodland Cultural Centre, please visit their website at http://www.woodland-centre.on.ca/index.php or see their current e-newsletter<http://www.woodland-centre.on.ca/html/newsletter/feb2012/wcc_febnews_web.html?utm_source=Mailing+List+02&utm_campaign=59b9583960-February_Newsletter2_14_2012&utm_medium=email>.
A detailed itinerary for this tour is available from the <http://arlisna2012.sched.org/event/609d24487faaa17b831791cad0a8ea72> tour listing<http://arlisna2012.sched.org/event/609d24487faaa17b831791cad0a8ea72> on SCHED<http://arlisna2012.sched.org/event/609d24487faaa17b831791cad0a8ea72> via the conference website<http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012>.
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