"Buffalo Dudes Go to Market" at Urban Shaman Contemporary Gallery

Buffalo Dudes Go to Market

An International creative collaboration between performance artists Terrance Houle (Blood), Adrian Stimson (Siksika) and Jamison Chas Banks (Seneca-Cayuga/Cherokee).

Saturday, August 18, 4:45pm, Urban Shaman Gallery

The performance is a co-collaboration between Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art and The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts.

Terrance Houle is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary media artist who has travelled to reservations throughout North America participating in Powwow dancing along with his native ceremonies.

Adrian Stimson is a interdisciplinary artist, who created “Buffalo Boy”, a character parody of Buffalo Bill, which are performances that re-signify colonial history.

Jamison Chas Banks is a printmaker and large scale graphic artist based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work repurposes obscure political propaganda, advertising, popular iconography, comic art.

For more information contact Amber-Dawn Bear Robe at adbearrobe@iaia.edu or 505-428-5904

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501

www.iaia.edu/museum

Screening: ROBERT’S PAINTINGS

Artist: DIR SHELLEY NIRO

2011 | 52 MIN | CANADA

(English, Salteaux w/ English subtitles)

Date: Thursday, September 6 at 7:00 PM

Location: WFG Cinematheque, 100 ARTHUR ST.

Introduced By Shelley Niro

In conjunction with Urban Shaman’s new exhibition the Cinematheque presents Shelly Niro’s recent beautiful film about artist Robert Houle. Robert Houle is an acclaimed Anishinaabe (Ojibwe-Saulteaux) artist and activist on behalf of First Nation peoples; this film examines his life and career as an artist, curator, educator and cultural theorist. Like many of his generation, Houle was schooled in the residential school system. As a result, he has created a body of work encapsulating his memories from childhood. His vast body of work explores what happened to the First Nation people and the way Canada has treated them throughout the years.

"Houle uses his experiences to teach others their heritage through Canadian indigenous artwork.This film is about not forgetting, but rather contributing to the collective memory of a nation. It is a celebration.” -15TH CINES LAS AMERICAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Shelley Niro is a Mohawk member of the Six Nations Reserve. She belongs to the Turtle Clan. Niro is a visual artist whose work has shown at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the National Museum of the American Indian, New York and Washington, DC, and has recently exhibited at the Institute of American Indian Art Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Urban Shaman’s Main Gallery

M: Stories of Women | Shelley Niro

Artist Reception at 8pm | Artist Talk at 9pm, Friday, September 7, 2012

Dates running: Friday, August 24 to September 29, 2012

Location: Urban Shaman’s Main Gallery

Artist Statement: Monster will be a series of self-portraits. In this series of twelve I will use my image to express emotion, critique and anger at the ongoing reality and depiction of Native people in Canada. I am referencing the day-to-day struggle Native people have to confront and contend with…Using myself as the subject within the work I will portray, abstractly, innermost feelings as my personal space I impeded by actual happenings exploited by the media and delivered to my own reality on a daily basis.

Biography: Shelley Niro is known for multidisciplinary works, and specifically photographic works that reveal and challenge stereotypical images of First Nations people. Raised on the Six Nations Reserve near the town of Brantford, Ontario, Niro is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk. Over the years she has worked in a variety of media including beadwork, painting, photography, an film. Through her work, the artist prompts viewers to examine perceptions and portrayals of Native North Americans, particularly images of women. It’s an honor for Urban Shaman to be involved with the publication and exhibition featuring Niro’s new body of work.

Urban Shaman’s Marvin Frances Media Gallery

Skull Stories | Jordan Bennett

Artist Reception at 8pm | Artist Talk at 9pm, Friday, September 7, 2012

Dates running: Friday, August 24 to September 29, 2012

Artist Statement: The work is an interactive sculptural, sound and video installation that explores the idea of tapping into the memories, sprit and history of a once animate creature. The work consists of a series of animal skulls, including a rabbit, bear, beaver and coyote. Each skull has a planted USB drive where the spinal chord once attached. As a viewer you will have the ability to plug into each skull with a USB adapter that will automatically engage a video through projection displays. The videos for the piece portray key moments in the animals’ past, snippets of video and sound that will imitate moments from the perspective of the animal. The work plays on the ideas of tapping into the animals memories, their energy and their connections to our ancestors. The work comes from thinking about our connections and “Link” to the past and although it may seem as though these animals lives did not influence us directly as we now have access to mass produced consumables, they indirectly aided in allowing us to be where we are today as our ancestors depended deeply on these animals to give their lives so that they could have the nourishment to carry on another day.

Biography: Jordan Bennett is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent who calls the west coast of Newfoundland home. Jordan has shown extensively over the past few years across Canada and abroad, in places such as the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston ON, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. Johns NL, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, and upcoming at Alternator Artist Run Centre, Kelowna, BC, and The Museum of Art and Design, New York City, NY. His work is derived from a combination of popular and traditional cultural reflections, which he portrays through his passion for and knowledge of pop culture, traditional craft, political issues, and his own cultural practices. Through the processes of sculpture, digital media, text based media, installation, painting, endurance performance and various others, he strives to push boundaries and play with the ideas of re-appropriation, reclamation, participation and the artifact within traditional aboriginal craft, ceremony, and contemporary culture.

FOR INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTISTS OR THE GALLERY DIRECTOR- Daina Warren, PLEASE CONTACT daina[at]urbanshaman[dot]org

Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art gratefully acknowledges the support of our friends, volunteers, community and all our relations, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Hydro and (CAHRD) Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development Inc., The Winnipeg Foundation. ~GITCHI MIIGWETCH

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