Art: Reconnecting Family and Communtiy
Dorian Kye Coriz
Kewa Pueblo
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Fake art hurts Indigenous artists as appropriators profit
Fake art hurts Indigenous artists as appropriators profit
https://thediscourse.ca/urban-nation/fake-art-indigenous
In the article "Fake art hurts Indigenous artists as appropriators profit" written by Francesa Fionda. The author writes of a real situation between a woman who steals a native artist's hummingbird design to be used as a tattoo. In that kickoff of the article it leads to a larger problem across canada and the inauthentic arts of indingous peoples there. The issue of non-natives profiting on indigiouns arts have become a main issue for Canada's indigingous peoples. To address this ""REclaim Your Art”, a national awareness campaign, to have consumers, gallery owners and governments take action to this. ""When non-Indigenous people create and sell Indigenous-themed art it’s not the same as being inspired by Picasso, Johnny Jr. says"". The situation in Canada is also a problem with the Aboriginal people in Australia.
Meet the entrepreneur connecting indigenous artists with the global art market
Meet the entrepreneur connecting indigenous artists with the global art market
While the issue of appropriated art may be affecting many artists, Maea Lenei Buhre in her article, "Meet the entrepreneur connecting indigenous artists with the global art market". Connecting artists to the online market. In this article it speaks heavily on the urbanization of communities to look ""for the better". But with this change can come with a loss of "rich rural or indiginous craft culture."" In Rebecca Hui project "Roots Studio"" focuses on closing the gap between native artists and and customers across the world by “digitizing last-generation art into an online library” for royalty licensing. The Roots Studio works with communities that are indingous or rural and have a cultural heritage that ""stems”form their environment. Also the studios partner with villages and use high quality scanners to upload artists' work to online repositories. Where artwork can be ordered as gallery prints or patterns for brands to license and print their own products.
Indigenous artists keeping cultural traditions alive with their work
Indigenous artists keeping cultural traditions alive with their work
When the Inuit cultural tradition of tattooing was about to die out Havok Johnston started the "'Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project' ''' to bring a practice back. In this video an older woman speaks of the importance of preserving such a meaningful tration. Going back tolerating the history of using bone needles and seal oil and other materials in tattooing. This brought back other Inuti Women tattooing one another and having tattoos.
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