The Art Gallery of Sudbury will present a free talk on native art entitled The Algonkians: Traders, Navigators, Image Makers this Thursday at 7 pm at the gallery on John St.
The talk will be presented by guest curator Bonnie Devine. She
is currently developing a retrospective exhibition of drawings
and paintings by Daphne Odjig, opening Sept.15, 2007. A
companion symposium, scheduled for October, will offer the
opportunity to discuss the Woodland School and its influence on
Canadian art history and discourse.
This Thursday, Devine will talk about the history of the Great
Ojibway and Odawa cultures that flourished along the North
Shores of the Great Lakes until the signing of the Robinson
Huron treaties in 1850.
In addition, she will talk about the repository of Algonkian
knowledge located in oracy and petroglyph images across the
Canadian Shield and their influence on the Algonkian
image-makers Daphne Odjig and Norval Morrisseau.
Other free talks are planned for 2007.
