With Our Bodies We Protect the Land by Kent Monkman, 2018 (acrylic on canvas)
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« Le cinéaste torontois Bruce LaBruce, l’artiste cri Kent Monkman et l’artiste montréalaise Sandra Rodriguez font partie des huit lauréats des Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et en arts médiatiques 2025. » https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2145656/prix-gouverneur-general-kent-monkman
This is what Orange Shirt Day is about. And today, the residential school system lives on in a different form. Indigenous children are still stolen from their families and raised in group homes where they are abused and then, when they age out of the system, many end up on the streets with no supports. The 60s scoop did not end. The racism is systemic. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/ #KentMonkman #TheScream #TruthAndReconciliation #ResidentialSchool #IndigenousMastodon #OrangeShirtDay
Kent Monkman is one of my favourite contemporary artists. A book about his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle has just been released. I encourage you to visit his website to learn more about this amazing Cree artist and look at his thought-provoking paintings: https://www.kentmonkman.com/
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/kent-monkman-book-miss-chief-1.7053175
Kent MonkmanKent MonkmanKent Monkman is a Cree artist who is widely known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience - the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences - across a variety of mediums
Humbling to know that my writing does the power of Kent's paintings justice, "Wall text throughout the show written in Miss Chief’s...voice by (Gisele) Gordon concisely presents a straightforward narrative challenging the dominant Western perspective of history absent any pretentiousness or impenetrable academic language. Complexity made simple"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2022/12/30/kent-monkman-and-miss-chief-eagle-testickle-guide-visitors-through-royal-ontario-museum/?sh=5a89dce8efc6
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ForbesKent Monkman And Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Guide Visitors Through Royal Ontario Museum
