<p><b>No present without the past. No equality without feminism.<\/b><\/p><p><i>Nekt wikuhpon ehpit<\/i> chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have shaped Shirley Bear\u2019s visual art, poetry, and political activism and presents the integral relationship amongst these important activities in her life.<\/p><p>Countering the invisible silent status ascribed to Indigenous women by patriarchal history and convention, Bear\u2019s primary focus has been the recovery of the feminine role in the ancestral life of First Nations culture. Featuring more than 30 reproductions of her work with essays by Terry Graff, Susan Crean, and Carol Taylor, <i>Nekt wikuhpon ehpit<\/i> both depicts and examines the essential feminine imagery of Bear\u2019s work in their symbolic, archetypal, or representative forms.<\/p><p>Shirley Bear\u2019s work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies, including <i>Kelusultiek: Original Women\u2019s Voices of Atlantic Canada<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Colour of Resistance<\/i>. She received the New Brunswick Excellence in the Arts Award in 2002.<\/p><p><b>Pas de pr\u00e9sent sans le pass\u00e9. Pas d’\u00e9galit\u00e9 sans f\u00e9minisme.<\/b><\/p><p><i>Nekt wikuhpon ehpit<\/i> rassemble les sources, l’inspiration et les circonstances personnelles qui ont fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 l’art visuel, la po\u00e9sie et l’activisme politique de Shirley Bear et les pr\u00e9sente la relation int\u00e9grale entre ces activit\u00e9s importantes dans sa vie.<\/p><p>Contre le statut de silence invisible attribu\u00e9 aux femmes autochtones par l\u2019histoire et les conventions patriarcales, Bear se concentre principalement sur le r\u00e9tablissement du r\u00f4le f\u00e9minin dans la vie ancestrale de la culture des Premi\u00e8res Nations. Avec plus de 30 reproductions de son travail avec des essais de Terry Graff, Susan Crean et Carol Taylor, <i>Nekt wikuhpon ehpit<\/i> d\u00e9peint l’imagerie f\u00e9minine essentielle du travail de Bear sous leurs formes symboliques, arch\u00e9typales ou repr\u00e9sentatives.<\/p><p>Le travail de Shirley Bear a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans des expositions au Canada, aux \u00c9tats-Unis et en Europe. Ses \u00e9crits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s dans plusieurs anthologies, notamment <i>Kelusultiek: Original Women\u2019s Voices of Atlantic Canada<\/i> et <i>The Color of Resistance<\/i>. Elle a re\u00e7u le Prix d’excellence dans les arts du Nouveau-Brunswick en 2002.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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