Raised in an Indigenous environment filled with arts and culture, Natalie M. Ball uses visual art as a way to demonstrate her culture, her way.
Having studied Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and Indigenous Arts at Massey University in New Zealand, Ball examines and challenges the inconsistent and often problematic
narratives that surround Native America. Ball is a native of the Modoc and Klamath tribes of southern Oregon and exhibits work in countries across the world. .
Heritage Mythologies Video Performance by Jackson 2bears 2010
Jackson 2bears is a new media, interactive installations and multimedia performance artist based in Victoria BC, Canada. A Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), 2bears works focus on the aesthetics of indigenous identity in contemporary times and explores Native spirituality. His work has been exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada, as well as internationally at Digital Art Weeks in Zurich, Switzerland. 2bears is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria.
Minnesota born Anishinaabe/European artist Andrea Carlson is an artist whose work takes the viewer into a politically charged object-filled world focusing on cultural narratives and stories offering commentary on museums, collections, and storytelling.
Her work has gained support through various fellowships and is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Carlson also holds a BA from the University of Minnesota (2003) and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2005).
An Aboriginal artist of Haida and Québécois descent, Raymond Boisjoly is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist who uses print-based sculptural media and installations to engage with the mediated representation of Aboriginality, while challenging cultural belief systems.
His work has been widely exhibited across Canada and in the United States, including the Vancouver at Presentation House
Gallery, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Centre A and Vancouver Art Gallery, The Power Plant in Toronto, and Western Bridge in Seattle.
Through his work, Feodorov addresses contemporary issues of environment, consumerism, and spirituality. Away from his sound and video work, he is also producing art on paper and canvas, creating “hybrid mythical iconographies” that tackle issues such as environmental disaster and post-Colonial identity. Currently an Associate Professor of Art at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University, Feodorov’s art has been recognized in the publications Time and Time Again, by Lucy R. Lippard and Manifestations, edited
by Nancy Marie Mithlo, and in the PBS series Art 21: Art for the 21st Century. Statement by Artist In 1979, the largest accidental release of radioactive material in USA history happened in Church Rock in the state of New Mexico. A tailing dam burst, sending eleven hundred tons of radioactive mill wastes and ninety million gallons of contaminated liquid pouring toward Arizona into the Rio Puerco River. Today, the Navajo communities still cannot use the water.
Daughter of a traditional storyteller and a member of the Seneca Cayuga Tribe of the Iroquis Nation, video and performance artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin uses conceptual art to create fun and funky works that challenge the status quo.
Winger Bearskin is a trained opera singer and holds a master’s degree in art from the University of Texas. Her work
as a solo performer has seen her feature at numerous international performance festivals in cities including Seoul, New York, Beijing, and Manila.