Northern Rituals

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Gail Tremblay
Northern Rituals

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Onondaga and Mi’kmaq writer, teacher, and mixed media artist Gail Tremblay was born in 1945 in Buffalo, New York. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1967 and received a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, Eugene in 1969. Tremblay teaches English, Native American Studies, Art, and Art History at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she joined the faculty in 1981. Her advocacy for Native people, Indigenous issues, and women artists is advanced through her published articles, essays, and participation in Native arts organizations including the Women’s Caucus for Art (President, 1999-2000). As an educator, she has influenced more than a generation of Native and non-Native students and has been instrumental in building Evergreen’s focus on Native arts and Native Studies. In the 1980s, while she was teaching a Third World and Feminist Film Theory class, Tremblay began weaving baskets out of scrap 16mm film, old movie trailers, and outdated educational films. In perfect postmodern irony, Tremblay, who has been making baskets since childhood, utilized materials from a medium that often originated and propagated stereotypes of Indigenous people in order to create “traditional” baskets that critique those same stereotypes. Her titles often allude to the film source, which is frequently obscured by the weaving. In And Then There’s the Hollywood Indian Princess (2002), she mixes the red leader film with the dark film to create a basket that integrates traditional Mi’kmaq and Onondaga basketry techniques with a twentieth-century medium. he use of red leader scraps, while offering visual interest, also can have symbolic meaning—as a color associated with one of the cardinal directions for various Native nations and as a wryly subversive reference to the “red” Indian.

Creator:
Gail Tremblay (1945, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Diameter: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Denver, CO
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU49834186612