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Jane Ash Poitras: Keeping The Circle Strong
Dr. Jane Ash Poitras [Mikisew Cree First Nation),], CM RCA (Member of the Order of Canada [CM] and Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [RCA]) is a Canadian First Nations artist who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She has received many honors as an internationally acclaimed visual artist and lecturer who has influenced a successive generation of artists and students.
Poitras combines her many diverse interests in pursuit of her distinctive artistic vision including such topics as current politics, pharmacology, ethnobotany, linguistics, and literature. Edmonton Journal visual arts critic Janice Ryan writes about Poitras, 鈥淭he work is engaging for its beauty alone, but up close is where the cerebral journey begins, unraveling fragments of information, both subtle and in-your-face pronouncements, to reveal the story this imaginative.鈥� Poitras makes collaged, layered work, overpainted with thin washes, often with handwritten text, and incorporating found objects. She expresses a deep commitment to the politics and issues common to Indigenous peoples. Her work is about flipping and broadening perspectives, connecting different viewpoints and histories, and reconciling differences or rather, considering, opposing viewpoints tangentially.
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Dr. Jane Ash Poitras [Mikisew Cree First Nation),], CM RCA (Member of the Order of Canada [CM] and Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [RCA]) is a Canadian First Nations artist who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She has received many honors as an internationally acclaimed visual artist and lecturer who has influenced a successive generation of artists and students.
Poitras combines her many diverse interests in pursuit of her distinctive artistic vision including such topics as current politics, pharmacology, ethnobotany, linguistics, and literature. Edmonton Journal visual arts critic Janice Ryan writes about Poitras, 鈥淭he work is engaging for its beauty alone, but up close is where the cerebral journey begins, unraveling fragments of information, both subtle and in-your-face pronouncements, to reveal the story this imaginative.鈥� Poitras makes collaged, layered work, overpainted with thin washes, often with handwritten text, and incorporating found objects. She expresses a deep commitment to the politics and issues common to Indigenous peoples. Her work is about flipping and broadening perspectives, connecting different viewpoints and histories, and reconciling differences or rather, considering, opposing viewpoints tangentially.
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