Shirley Bear
Shirley Bear (born May 16, 1936) is a Tobique First Nation artist, poet and activist.
The daughter of Susan Paul-Bear and Noel Bear Jr., she was born on the Negootgook reserve in New Brunswick, attended the Collège Maillet in Saint-Basile and went on to study photography and painting in New Hampshire. In 1968, she received a Ford Foundation fellowship.[1]
Her work has appeared in exhibitions at the Clement Cormier Gallery in Moncton, at the Restigouche Gallery in Campbellton, at the Université Saint-Louis in Edmundston and the Connexion Gallery in Fredericton, as well as in group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Her work is included in the collections of the New Brunswick Art Bank, the National Indian Art Centre, the Canadian Museum of History and the University of Moncton, among others.[2]
In 1990, she was curator for a touring exhibition of art by native women, Changers: A Spiritual Renaissance.[3]
She was the subject of a short National Film Board film Minqwon Minqwon by Catherine Martin which was produced in 1990.[4]
In 2011, she was named to the Order of Canada.[5]
Works[1]
- Nine Micmac Legends, Alden Nowlan; Illustrations: Shirley Bear
- Enough is Enough (1987)
- Everywoman’s Almanac (1991)
- The Colour of Resistance (1993)
- Kelusultiek (1994)
- virgin bones (2006)
References
- 1 2 "Shirley Bear". Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.
- ↑ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. pp. 1853–54. ISBN 1135638896.
- ↑ New, William H, ed. (2002). "Bear, Shirley". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. p. 95. ISBN 0-8020-0761-9.
- ↑ Senier, Siobhan (2014). Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England. p. 143. ISBN 0803256809.
- ↑ "Shirley Bear, C.M.". Order of Canada. Governor General of Canada.
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