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Wah-Sa Gallery Visit the work at the Wah-Sa Gallery in Winnipeg at:
Discussion Questions What aspects of Aboriginal Culture are portrayed in this work? Which animals are shown in Terry McCue’s and Jeff Monias’ work? Are there any other animals you would expect to see? Why? Which is your favorite piece and why? Comment on the color and symbols used in Leland Bell’s work. How is it different from the other artists’ work? What about Maxine Noel’s works? Sketch some of these symbols and examples of Plains culture under the heading of Plains.
Image Makers Gallery
Look at the examples of Plains artists’ work on this site at: http://www.imagemakers.mb.ca/native2.html
What aspects of Aboriginal Culture do you see portrayed in these works? Which artists could you group together as doing similar art work and what is the same about their work? Are there animals portrayed in these works and are they the similar or different from the artists at the Wah-Sa Gallery? Which is your favorite piece and why? Sketch symbols and examples of Plains culture you see under the heading of Plains.
Check out these web sites as well: Allan Sapp http://www.allensapp.com/ John Reuban http://www.johnreuben.ca/ and Max Morin http://morinativeart.ca/
http://www.artistsincanada.com/php/~aboriginal.php
Website: Discuss the structure of the website keeping in mind that we will be including examples of First Nations, Native cultures of Canada: Inuit, Westcoast, Plains and Woodlands. If one of the sections of our Aboriginal Art website is for examples of Plains Art, think of backgrounds, buttons and designs for this part of the site.
Books used from our school Library:
C.J. Brafford & Laine Thom, Dancing Colours: Paths of Native American Women, Designed and Produced by Mc Quiston & Partners, Chronicle Books, San Francisco,
Ruth Thomson, Indians of the Plains, Franklin Watts, Toronto, 1991 |
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