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Madeleine Isserkut Kringayak (ᐃᓯᑯ) (1928–1984), was a Canadian Inuk sculptor and jewelry artist. Her sculptures were carved primarily from natural materials such as soapstone (steatite), bone, and antler reflecting the hunting habits and daily life of her family and the Inuit at large.
Primrose Adams (1926 – January 2020) was a Canadian First Nations artist and member of the Raven Clan from the Haida nation. [1] [2] She wove hats and baskets in the Haida method and is most notable for her spruce root basketry, which involves working in the traditional manner of collecting and dyeing her own spruce root.
Shania Twain is a country pop artist of partial Cree ancestry. [32] Shania Twain along with Alanis Morissette are the only Canadian musicians to have sold over 2 million units in Canada, receiving the double diamond award. [33] Kashtin was a Canadian folk rock duo composed of Innu Claude McKenzie and Florent Vollant. [34]
The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Canadian literature, music, cinema and culture. For more specific information on the arts in Canada, see Canadian art.
Susanna Haliburton Weldon (1817–1899), artist and ceramics collector; Esther Wertheimer (1926–2016), sculptor; Colette Whiten (born 1945), sculptor; Diane Whitehouse (born 1940), painter; Irene Whittome (born 1942) Joyce Wieland (1930–1998) Shirley Wiitasalo (born 1949), painter; Tania Willard (born 1977) Jennifer Willet (born 1975 ...
In 2005 her work Fountain was shown at the Canadian Pavilion of the 51st Venice Biennale, as the first aboriginal artist ever to represent Canada at the event. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In the same year she exhibited as part of Sweet Taboos at the 3rd Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania .
Noel's work, "Not Forgotten," was made to honor and remember the missing and murdered indigenous women, and she donated royalties to the Native Women's Association of Canada. [3] " Not Forgotten" was used in a 2019 campaign along British Columbia 's Highway of Tears by the group, Artists Against Racism, in response to the final report for the ...
It includes Canadian women artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:First Nations artists .