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Apr 5, 2023 · Learn about the history and culture of the Ojibwe people and explore their unique and vibrant art form. Discover the significance, symbols, and techniques of Ojibwe beadwork, quillwork, birch bark art, and carvings.
Whetung Ojibwa Centre offers a spectacular collection of Native crafts as well as Fine Art, Jewelry, Moccasins, Leather Work, Sculptures and much more from Curve Lake First Nation and across Canada. New and different items are constantly being added to our collection, not everything is shown online.
Apr 25, 2024 · April 25, 2024 4:10 PM. Listen Art and history come together in ‘Fur Trade Nation: an Ojibwe’s Graphic History’. Artist Carl Gawboy works on a watercolor painting Monday, at his home studio...
- Indigenous Art in Canada
- Prehistoric Art
- Post-Contact Art
- Eastern Subarctic
- Western Subarctic
- Southern Great Lakes and Upper St. Lawrence Valley
- Prairies
- Plateau
- Northwest Coast and Arctic
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The history of Indigenous art in Canada begins sometime during the last Ice Age between 80,000 and 12,000 years ago (see Prehistory). To date, however, the oldest surviving artworks (excluding finely crafted, aesthetically significant stone tools) are datable to no earlier than 5,000 years ago. Decorative and depictive carvings from the earliest pe...
Prehistoric art is the period of Indigenous art least known in Canada; its end date varies from region to region. While contact with French settlers in the Maritimesand St. Lawrence Valley took place in the 16th century, the First Peoples of the West Coast did not see Europeans until the late 18th century. Prehistoric art varies not only in genre, ...
Post-contact or "historic" art in Canada is well known, mainly because examples have been collected, sketched and written about by explorers, traders, missionaries, artists and scholars for over 300 years and are part of museum collections around the world. The various regions into which Indigenousart is customarily divided are based upon the distr...
Set in the eastern Canadian Shield, which covers northern Québec all the way to Labrador and extends down Hudson Bay to James Bay, the art of the Eastern Subarctic may be the most ancient in Canada, the majority of prehistoric and early contact rock art sites being located in this region. The largely Algonquian-speaking peoples — the Ojibwa, Cree, ...
From the Pacific Ocean inland to the central region, the vast Western Subarctic is largely populated by Athapaskan speaking peoples. The Athapaskan speaking Dene Nation share a similar culture and art with their Eastern Subarctic neighbours, the Cree, Iroquois, and Ojibwa. Decoration of personal gear and clothing was the major form of artistic expr...
From the late prehistoric to the early historic period, the Iroquoian-speaking peoples of this region — the Huron, Neutral, Petun and later the Iroquois proper — underwent more rapid changes than Indigenous peoples in any other region in Canada. Because they were farmers, living in relatively permanent villages, their political and social instituti...
Situated in the sweeping grasslands of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, and parts of British Columbia, Prairie Indigenous culture as it emerged in the 19th century was a synthesis of Indigenous and white cultures, the product of post-contact European influences such as the horse and the gun, which provided increased mobility and effectiveness in th...
Set in the area between the British Columbia coastal mountains and the Rocky Mountains, the plateau region is often ignored in surveys of Indigenous art but is unique in many ways. The interior Salishleft behind a major body of prehistoric pictographs. The Lillooet, Thompson, Okanagan and Shuswap of the historic period are noted for their finely cr...
The historic art of the Northwest Coast and of the Arctic has been the subject of considerable attention in recent years. (For more detailed accounts of these two artistic traditions, see Northwest Coast Indigenous Art, Inuit Art, and Inuit Printmaking.)
Learn about the prehistoric, contact and contemporary art of First Nations and Inuit peoples in Canada. Explore the diverse genres, styles, functions and meanings of Indigenous artworks from different regions and periods.
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Jan 16, 2024 · Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers | Art | College of Liberal Arts. The Katherine E. Nash Gallery hosts a group exhibition of 29 Indigenous painters, the inaugural program of the George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts. January 16, 2024. Caption.
Apr 5, 2023 · Ojibwe art is an expression of traditional Ojibwe culture and values. It is often used to tell stories, document history and celebrate significant events. Ojibwe art is typically found in the form of beadwork, basketry, birchbark and quillwork, and includes paintings, sculptures, carvings, and other forms of artwork.
Birchbark biting (Ojibwe: Mazinibaganjigan, plural: mazinibaganjiganan) is an Indigenous artform made by Anishinaabeg, including Ojibwe people, Potawatomi, and Odawa, as well as Cree and other Algonquian peoples of the Subarctic and Great Lakes regions of Canada and the United States.
