Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue
February 27, 2012
In 2007 the School for Advanced Research (SAR) received funding from the Anne Ray Charitable Trust Foundation in order to bring together a group of Native women artists from all walks of life to confer on three topics considered to be the central dogma of their lives. These seminars were originally titled Art, Gender, and Ceremony; however, after much debate, they were renamed Art, Gender and Community due to the conflicting view of the word “ceremony” and how it may look to the public. In a series of non-fiction essays written by the women of these SAR summits Art, Gender, and Community, Art In Our Lives Native Women Artists In Dialogue was compiled to address gender, home/crossing, and art as healing/art as struggle. These pieces are ordered thematically as each woman voices her struggles and successes in the three realms discussed at the seminars.
Chapter One (essay I) “Introduction: The Art, Gender, and Community Seminars” Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Chapter Two (essay II) “Art as Healing, Art as Struggle” Gloria J. Emerson
Chapter Three (essay III) “‘This Fierce Love:’ Gender, Women, and Art Making.” Sherry Farrell Racette
Chapter Four (essay IV) “Space, Memory, Landscape: Women in native Art History.” Elysia Poon
Chapter Five (essay V) “Crossing the Boundaries of Home and Art.” Lara Evans
Chapter Six (essay VI) “The Artists of the Art, Gender, and Community Seminars.”
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