Judy Chartrand

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Judy Chartrand (born 1959) is a Manitoba Cree artist, born in Kamloops BC, Canada. [1] She is an artist who grew up in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. Her works frequently confront issues of postcolonialism, Indigenous feminism, socio-economic inequity, and Indigenous knowledge expressed through the mediums of ceramics, found objects, archival photography, and traditional Indigenous techniques of beadwork, moose hair tufting and quillwork.

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Life and work

Chartrand is a self-taught ceramicist. She was initially inspired by the Pueblo San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, whose instructional videos she initially learned from. Her early works were autobiographical, focussing on the tension between Indigenous and European culture in Vancouver. [2] In her formative years, she was influenced by trips to the Vancouver Museum located at the Carnegie Community Centre in downtown Vancouver where she developed an awareness of the design and painting of ceramics.

An early motif utilized in her work was referencing Mimbres bowl forms and surface decoration, [3] which is a design language she has referenced back to frequently in her work from renditions of historical Mimbres pots, [4] to public art installation like the one done for the Olivia Skye Public Housing Building [5] which featured illustrations of women in the style of Mimbres surface decoration.

Her series "If This is What You Call, ‘Being Civilized’, I'd rather go back to Being a ‘Savage’" is an evolution of the Mimbres pots, keeping the same bowl form but adding more personalized surface decoration from the artist. It currently exists in the private collection of contemporary art collector Bob Rennie [6] and the permanent collection of the Surrey Art Gallery. [7]

Works have also been collected by the Glenbow Museum, the AMOCA in Pomona Ca, the Gardiner Museum, the Museum of Anthropology, the Crocker Art Museum and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. Her work has been included in anthologies on arts and crafts, including Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice. [8]

Education

Chartrand studied for her Diploma in the Fine Arts Program at Langara College before being accepted to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she graduated with her BFA in 1998. She continued on to finish her master's degree in Fine Arts in Ceramics at the University of Regina (2003).

Exhibitions

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References

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  2. ↑ Mayer, Carol E. (2020). Playing With Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary. UBC Museum of Anthropology. ISBN   9780888653437.
  3. ↑ Laurence, Robin (November 7, 2016). "Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World uses everything from ceramic soup cans to cereal boxes to take on racism and colonialism". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  4. ↑ Mathieu, Paul (2003). Sex Pots. Rutgers University Press. ISBN   9780813532936 . Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  5. ↑ Chan, Kenneth (March 13, 2018). "New DTES building with social housing and market rental homes complete (PHOTOS". Daily Hive. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  6. ↑ Lederman, Marsha. "Why we love the art we love". The Globe and Mail.
  7. ↑ Amy, Gogarty. "Judy Chartrand" (PDF).
  8. ↑ Chambers, Ruth (2007). Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramic Practice. Ronsdale Press. ISBN   978-1-55380-051-4.
  9. ↑ Robin, Laurence (November 27, 2019). "MOA show Playing With Fire blows away ceramic stereotypes". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  10. ↑ Spitale-Leisk, Maria (Feb 22, 2019). "Griffin Art Projects explores connections between art and poetry in Vancouver since 1960". North Shore News. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Agenda / May 19–June 30, 2018 Editors' Pick Bad Stitch". Canadian Art. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  12. ↑ Shen, Wenjie (November 22, 2016). "Artist explores race relations through ceramic". The Source. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Métis Soup". Archived from the original on March 17, 2016.</
  14. ↑ "Judy Chartrand 1999-2013".
  15. ↑ Abdel-Haq, Dina (February 7, 2012). "Exhibition uses art to explore similarities and difference". Malaysia-Canada Indigenous Communities Applied Arts Exhibition. The Source. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
  16. ↑ "Haruko Okano, Judy Chartrand, and Wayde Compton: Lost & Found". Georgia Straight. August 17, 2006.
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