#decolonizeart

[relativeopacity]

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity” - Frantz Fanon How can we create a new precedent in design? How can we dismantle what we were taught and build something new from the ground up. In other words, setting a new “staple” that isn’t based in eurocentric white male minds. Welcome to Relative Opacity :)

[kitthomasart]

🐺 “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miro * 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗔𝗿𝘁.𝗰𝗼𝗺 🎨 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝟱𝟬% 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 * 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚒𝚘 * 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 #art #artist #decolonizeart #nativeart #nativeartist #haudenosauneeart #haudenosauneeartist #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #riseandshine #iroquois #iroquoisart #iroquoisartist #mohawk #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne #losangeles (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5twyb5FBKo/?igshid=3xch2btnza29

[supportblackart]

Excellent Art by @alexandreketo 🙌🏾 The last four or five hundreds years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this has to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery - Chinua Achebe Acrylic on canvas #supportblackart #alexandreketo #painting #acryliconcanvas #acrylic #art #africa #slavetrade #africanwoman #colonization #diaspora #artlovers #artofvisuals #supportblackartists #dopeblackart #okayafrica #europeanunion #chinuaachebe #artsy #slavery #afropunk #decolonizeart #artnet #artlife

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

More from the #indigenouspeoplesday commemoration at @mfaboston where the @kingfishertheater, members of southern New England tribes demonstrated song and dance. This beautiful song, meant to welcome and say farewell to migrating robins, echoed about this gallery filled with the art of former European colonial powers. It felt very correct to have this happening in there. I hope soon the #MFABoston remedies the lack of Native representation amid their collections. #nativeamericanculture #songs #indigenousamerican #representationmatters #robinsong #northeastwoodlands #culture #decolonizethemuseum #decolonizeart #easternwoodlands #nativeamericanheritage #nativeamerican https://www.instagram.com/p/B30AzwQAArg/?igshid=xr17q13cakpk

[blackdominique]

Debuting some new work on @12ocollective with @repostapp ・・・ #day25 on thirty.works with #30works30days artists: Dominique White (@dominiquehwhite) Jake Caleb (@communitycaleb) Dominic Negus Wes Gilpin (@wesgilpin) . #thirtyworks #decolonizeart #upanddown #onlineexhibition #aprilchallenge #nearlythere #🙌

[nscadmfa]

“Decolonization Station” was an installation and performance/participatory art project by Arianna Richardson, The Hobbyist, that took place on Saturday, July 1st in downtown Lethbridge, AB during the city’s official “Canada Day” celebrations.  In this participatory art project, the viewer was asked to engage directly in a dialogue about colonization/decolonization as presented through commercialized images of Canada.  This dialogue was realized through active audience participation in the destruction of artworks and ephemera that resulted from an investigative project that Richardson undertook from 2012-2015: The Canada Collection.  This investigation involved the collection of mass-produced, household objects, tchotchkes, and souvenirs that present popular images of Canada.  Most often, objects were collected from secondhand shops and garage sales across Western Canada, the prevailing iconographies presenting a Canadian identity thinly veiled by a facade of friendliness and humour, untamed, majestic wilderness and seemingly quaint imperialism.

[vicdelarosa]

PERSONAL INVENTORY IN ACADEMIA

TO-DO LIST: DECOLONIZE ART

It is the month of May and college students are graduating across the U.S. It has me thinking of the completion of my graduate studies and my goals at the time: get a full-time tenure-track teaching position, continue creative activity and seek change in the diversity of the professorate in studio art. Some I have accomplished – I reached the top level of the teaching field, I am finishing my first academic year as a Full Professor and although I would like more access to jacquard weaving equipment my creative career continues to be engaging – but the last goal still seems far out of reach.

The arts, usually at the lead in terms of cultural change, is lagging in the area of diversity in many categories across the spectrum of art production, education, and curation. Representation is a conversation taking place everywhere now, it is heavy in the air, but the arts are behind and seemingly stuck.

My teaching institution, San Francisco State University, is straggling and losing ground: when I started there were five faculty of color across disciplines now we are three. Art history curriculum has never included courses in Mexican or Chicano art to anyones memory, and the closest to African art, Cuba, has not been taught since 2009. The SF State Art department simply has not and does not mirror the student population we serve.

My idea of diversity is not one of quotas but simply that any institution reflect the community it serves, in all the variety and differences in the community population itself. Given distributions of U.S. populations, this may be a different experience in Utah than it might be in Florida.

In California, the SF State student demographic mirrors the state demographics for this age group. The breakdown on our own university website cites 37% Latino/Chicano/Mexican-American, 30.9% Asian/Pacific Islander, 5.9% African American, 19.4% White Non-Latino. In terms of campus faculty diversity, the percentages cited are 7% Latino/Chicano/Mexican-American, 24% Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% African American, 56% White Non-Latino. The university has much more work to do in reflecting the community it serves and the SF State Art department lags behind further still.

One goal for institutions of higher learning is to educate and engage its populace in endeavors such as college teaching itself. Role modeling has proven to be a major factor in student graduation rate. There are many ways to successfully role model but at my institution faculty diversity is a major gap.

I have tried working within the system, made suggestions in faculty meetings, asked questions of the Dean in all-college meetings but my graduate school goals are further out of reach that I imagined. I need to turn up the volume and expand the discussion. My institution has much work to do in terms of diversity and reflecting the community it serves…. how is yours doing?

#sfstateartdeptsowhite

#decolonizeart

http://puboff.sfsu.edu/sfsufact/archive/1718/students

http://puboff.sfsu.edu/sfsufact/archive/1718/facstaff

[paleeyesmusic]

Thanks to @kentmonkman for speaking with me today as part of the #gbclabourfair. We recorded the interview for Precariat Content and I’ll share it in early April. #gbclabourfairies #decolonizearthistory #decolonizeart #kentmonkman (at George Brown College)

[kitthomasart]

More and more, I’m seeing some fake shit a$$ #pretendindians selling our ceremonies, medicine, culture, language and art. They are claiming native heritage by picking their own tribes and practices they want. Even name dropping to prentend they have connections through the elders. Sorry Hon, we know who we are. “Who’s your family?” If they or family is from a. Rez someone would know them. Honest a Rez is a small community but news can travel fast. We see you #shaneortega @misscorinne86 👀 Our ancestors didn’t go through this shit just so you could play Indian. 🤔 • • • -[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 🐢🪶🦫🦅🐺 • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #killtheindian #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosaunee #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospirit #twospiritart #lgbtqartist #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne @kdeveryjacobs (at Akwesasne Mohawk Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHMy-SrQ7s/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kitthomasart]

-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- Support Native Artists • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #twospirit #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQtvB6Lapj/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kitthomasart]

“🅸🅽🅳🅸🅶🅴🅽🅸🆉🅴🅳 🅳🆄🅲🅺🆈”. 🅻🅰🅽🅳 🅱🅰🅲🅺 ✊🏽 🦕#saturdayvibes 🌴#Sketch🦖 #art #landbeforetime #landback #decolonize #decolonizeart #decolonizeyourself #decolonizeyourmind #indigenousartists #illustration #kastowah #gastoweh #mohawknation (at Ventura, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDEmhinFl65/?igshid=y3of2moednq8

[kitthomasart]

🅢🅚🅞🅓🅔🅝 -to all my relations please stay safe��🐺-I[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- 🐢 🐻 🦅 🦌 ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊ • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #killtheindian #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne (at Ventura, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCcX_xlZmf/?igshid=7za7pcqq4fhp

[kitthomasart]

Indigenous & Blessed ✨🌙 🐺-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- 🐢 🅢🅚🅞🅓🅔🅝 • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne #comtemporarynativeamericanart (at Ventura, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Z449AF--U/?igshid=k2bzh73iymz9

[kitthomasart]

📷 prints available www.KitThomasArt.com 🐺-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- 🐢 • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #killtheindian #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne (at Ventura, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XGfTql5F7/?igshid=1u1n96zyo1qb5

[kitthomasart]

📷 #fbf 2008 “Genocide NDN No. 2”✨🌙 series of acrylic on canvas panel that I turned into matted prints. 🐺-[]-[]-/\-[]-[]- 🐢 • • • • #decolonizeart #nativeart #skoden #stoodis #killtheindian #nativeartist #ndn #haudenosauneeart #n8v #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #onkwehonwe #akwesasne (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-P2lJkFgYq/?igshid=16kmdww1vepuf

[kitthomasart]

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete”-Kornfield ✨🌙 • • • • #wednesdaywisdom #warrior #selflove #wednesdaymood #decolonizeart #nativeart #sage #nativeartist #haudenosauneeart #haudenosauneeartist #indigiqueer #smashthepatriarchy #twospiritartist #twospiritart #lgbtqart #lgbtqartist #lgbtqartistoftheday #twospirit #tomboy #mohawknation #mohawkartist #kanienkehaka #kanienkehakaartist #firstnations #firstnationsart #firstnationartist #art #love #onkwehonwe #akwesasne (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UwQnTl5C7/?igshid=h72smnqiae7y