Nicholas will share two works in this years ImagineNATIVE Filme & Media Arts Festival.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. Each fall, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe. The festival’s screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers, and industry professionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.

Since its inception in 1998, imagineNATIVE (known also as the Centre for Aboriginal Media, imagineNATIVE’s legal entity) continues to evolve to reflect the needs of its constituencies. Founded by Cynthia Lickers-Sage with the help of Vtape and other community partners, imagineNATIVE is now regarded as one of the most important Indigenous film and media arts festivals in the world.

The four-day imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and its annual tour (that takes selected programming to remote Indigenous communities) fill a void in the artistic and cultural landscapes of Toronto in which Indigenous filmmakers and media artists are often underrepresented or misrepresented.

American Indain Art Magazine

by Aldona Jonaitis

Noting that the Northwest Coast culture—perhaps more than any other area of Native North America—identifies itself strongly with earlier artistic traditions, this article details the work of four young artists who, while trained in traditional art, are clearly innovative.

For more information on finding this recent publication please visit this link.

http://www.aiamagazine.com/

 For more than 30 years, American Indian Art Magazine has been the premier magazine devoted exclusively to the great variety of American Indian art. This beautifully illustrated quarterly features articles by leading experts, the latest information on current auction results, publications, legal issues, museum and gallery exhibitions and events.

Six artists have been selected to receive $12,000 Fellowship Awards:

• Carl Battreall , photographer (Anchorage).
• Nicholas Galanin , multidiscipline artist working in performance art, video installation, film, sculpture, painting and photography (Sitka).
• Sonya Kelliher-Combs , visual artist working in mixed-media creating two and three dimensional works (Anchorage).
• Philip Munger music composer (Wasilla).
• Linda Smogor , photographer (Homer).
• Vladimir Zhikhartsev , plein air watercolor painter (Fairbanks).

Rasmuson FoundationLink

Nicholas will be art of a major group exhibition at the new Art & Design museum in New York this September, 08.  Watch for upates. (more…)

Nicholas will have work in this upcoming exhibition.

Northern Disclosure: Acquisitions of Contemporary Art in the Museum of the North Fine Art Collections, 2005-2008

EXHIBIT DATES: AUGUST 1 - AUGUST 31, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 5-7 PM

FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION BEAR GALLERY

3RD FLOOR, ALASKA CENTENNIAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS, PIONEER PARK, 2300 AIRPORT WAY

GALLERY HOURS: MON-SUN NOON-8 PM • OFFICE HOURS: MON-FRI NOON-6 PM

Nicholas will be attending this sympoium at the Denver Art Museum
Two days starting Friday, April 4, 9:00 am

Hamilton Building, Lower Level

This symposium is intended to stimulate and advance the dialogue around Native American performance. We invite curators, artists, scholars, art critics, and students to explore current issues that are of importance to the future of performance art. In addition to panels, performances, and video screenings, this symposium will facilitate open dialogue through small group discussions of topics proposed by audience members.
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Nicholas had his work mentioned in an article in ARTnews, considered to be the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world. The article is titled “Tribal Hybrids” and reports on how “Indian artists are blending their Native traditions with mainstream trends to create beaded high-tops, postmodern pots, paintings that riff on powwows and raves, and other cross-cultural art forms.”

View Article Here

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dtdqzk9_40hdxgrt

Although many of the works are discomfiting, most stop short of being accusational and remain open and inquisitive. In many cases, they seem just as critical of Native perception of indigenous identity as they are of white. Sitka artist Nick Galanin’s What have we become?, a three-dimensional relief of a human face cut from the blank pages of a book, represents the tendency of contemporary Native peoples to reference outside sources ⎯ often in the form of foreign-written books ⎯ in search of their own historical identity.

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The Bill Reid Foundation is currently working on a grant that would fund the creation of a contemporary Northwest Coast exhibit that would open at the Chief Dan George Center in Vancouver around 2009. Bill Reid Foundation - Continuum: Vision and Creativity on the Northwest Coast is the current working title and Nicholas has been asked to submit works. This is exciting news and we will post updates.

http://www.billreidfoundation.org/

Forging New Directions
in Alaska Native Art (Including works from Nicholas Galanin).
Today’s Alaska Native artists create works both in traditional and contemporary modes. This exhibit features the work of 18 Alaska Native artists who honor their cultural heritage with works that diverge from traditional expressions. Their innovative approaches to their artistic practice explore such themes as tradition, cultural identity and politics.