Interviews with Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Patricia Deadman
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 1998, v. 28, no. 2, pp. 335-373
Brandon: Brandon University, 1998
In this piece, Lawrence Abbott interviews three Indigenous artists: Loretta Todd; Shelley Niro; and Patricia Deadman. In doing so he finds commonalities between their works; in particular, Todds and Niro attempt to create a Native aesthetic. This aesthetic is concerned with establishing an Indigenous point of view on such issues as the legacy of boarding schools, while also addressing other concerns, including the commodification of the environment. All three artists are interested in Native history, deconstructing colonist myths about Aboriginal communities, and expressing intrinsic aspects of Indigenous cultures across a variety of visual media platforms.
ITEM 1998.136 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Forgotten Warriors – Loretta Todd
Hands of History – Loretta Todd
The Learning Path – Loretta Todd
Voice - Life – Loretta Todd
Taking Care of Our Own – Loretta Todd
Chronicles of Pride – Loretta Todd
Eagle Run – Loretta Todd
Halfway House – Loretta Todd
The Four Directions – Loretta Todd
The Healing Circle – Loretta Todd
Day Glo Wrestler – Loretta Todd
Image and Self in Contemporary Native American Photoart – Shelley Niro
Native Images: Native Issues – Shelley Niro
Watchful Eyes: Native American Women Artists – Shelley Niro
Sense of Self – Shelley Niro
Works by Shelley Niro – Shelley Niro
Defining Our Realities: Native American Women Photographers – Shelley Niro
This Land is Mime Land – Shelley Niro
Mohawks in Beehives – Shelley Niro
The Language of the Lens – Shelley Niro
The Land Reserved – Patricia Deadman
AlterNative – Patricia Deadman
Cultural Contrasts – Patricia Deadman
Preserve, Conserve – Patricia Deadman
Defining our Realities – Patricia Deadman
Rephotographing the Land – Patricia Deadman
No Borders – Patricia Deadman
Fringe Momentum: The Photocollages of Patricia Deadman – Patricia Deadman
It Starts With a Whisper – Shelley Niro, Anna Gronau