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.
- First edition.
- 191 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
"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"--Page 4 of cover. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., January 16-March 16, 2024; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minn., April 24-July 21, 2024; and, the Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minn., September 3-December 27, 2024. Edited by Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190).
"'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. ... 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 scholarhship on several specific artists."--Page 4 of cover.