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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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April 5, 2003 - Issue 84 |
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Joane Cardinal - Schubert, RCA |
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From materials provided by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA |
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A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts since 1986, Joane Cardinal-Schubert is also a writer, curator, lecturer, poet and activist for First Nations artists and individuals engaged in the struggle for Native sovereignty. Attended the Alberta College of Art (1962-64; 1966-1967) and the University of Calgary, BFA (1977), Cardinal-Schubert's painting and installation practice is prominent for its incisive evocation of contemporary First Nations experiences and condemnation of the imposition of Euroamerican religious, educational and governmental systems upon Aboriginal people. Cardinal-Schubert worked as assistant curator at the University of Calgary Art Gallery in 1978, and the Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta, from 1979 to 1985. She has been a lobbyist for the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA) and has won numerous scholarships and grants, including the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Award in 1976, and the Banff Centre scholarship in 1983. 1988, 1995. The Commemorative medal of Canada in 1993, and most recently in 2002, the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for her contribution to Canada as well as to her community. The artist lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Artists
Statement - Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA
Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA writes ... "An Elder, Art Thompson spoke of the pictograph/petroglyph ( Hopi) which is beleieved to predict nuclear explosion ... it was described as it is popularily known as - The Gourd of Ashes ... he described it as looking like a puff ball mushroom ... There are 3, I think new paintings of mine on the Spirit Wrestler site ... well - they are not new - they were painted when I was in Germany ... I was reminded of Pickering Ontario ... and many years ago going to the beach in the shadow of the nuclear towers. I had already been fiddling with images and installations which included amphora ... which I imagined 'could' be like the Dead Sea Scrolls and unlock the languages of the pictographs ... as well as references to the Rosetta Stone which unlocked the language of Egyptian Hieroglyphs ... Midiwin scrolls ( Ojibwa) on birch bark were kept in hollow logs with moss at either end - perfect temp and humidity control ... the ethnologists removed these and redeposited them in museums ... but then later they were deaccessioned and ended up in Calgary push-pinned to the wall of a gallery, along with other 'Indian Effects' since I could not afford to buy them and rescue them ... I began to create 'homages' ... and that led to the idea of the amphora etc etc ... well that's another story ... So the Gourd of Ashes led me to a comparisons between 'containers' of things ... some good - some bad ... then I began to look at paintings as containers ... etc etc ..."
To view more of Joane Cardinal-Schubert's art: click here To view more of Joane Cardinal-Schubert's art at Spirit Wrestler Gallery: click here To read Joane Cardinal-Schubert's Curriculum Vitae: click here |
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