a biography of the day--Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (b. 1940)


Abstract Painter/ Lithographer
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, one of today’s most acclaimed American Indian artists, calls herself a cultural art worker. Her art addresses tribal politics, human rights, and environmental issues with humor. She has completed several collaborative public art works such as the floor design in the Great Hall of the Denver Airport. Exhibited worldwide, she is also a curator of Native American exhibitions and a lecturer.

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Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (born 1940) is a Native American contemporary artist. Notably her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts,[1] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Born in 1940 on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation, Montana, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith is an internationally renowned painter, printmaker and artist.[2]
She earned a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, and an MA in Art from the University of New Mexico.[3] Smith has been awarded four Honorary Doctorates, from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts and Massachusetts College of Art. and the University of New Mexico

Smith has been creating complicated abstract paintings and lithographs since the 1970s. She employs a wide variety of media, working in painting, printmaking and richly textured mixed media pieces. Such images and collage elements as commercial slogans, sign-like petroglyphs, rough drawing, and the inclusion and layering of text are unusually intersected into a complex vision created out of the artist’s personal experience. Her works contain strong, insistent socio-political commentary that speaks to past and present cultural appropriation and abuse, while identifying the continued significance of the Native American peoples.
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Among other honors, she has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, the College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts Award, the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award, and the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Allan Houser Award). Smith also has been admitted to the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame.



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