Reclaiming Home by Ola Wiusek

Reclaiming Home by Ola Wiusek

Expressing stories of Native American survival and resistance, Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art explores the work of 12 contemporary artists of the Seminole diaspora. This stunning volume illustrates how Seminole and mixed-heritage artists combine traditional skills and techniques - knowledge passed down to them from elders, family members, and ancestors - with innovative modes of expression and varied materials, including photo-based and digital collage techniques, performance, video, installation art, and mixed media. Their work engages concepts of hybridity and image-making and highlights social issues impacting Native communities today, from environmental protection to public health imperatives. Accompanied by critical and personal essays by leading scholars as well as artists’ statements and an interview, Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art proposes contemporary works of art as powerful expressions of Native sovereignty.

Durante Blais-Billie (Seminole) is the founding contributor of Seminole Tribe’s first Two-Spirit Affirmation project and the former assistant director of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida. Dr. Stacy E. Pratt (Muscogee) is a freelance writer specialising in Indigenous arts and literature. Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Taskigi/Diné (Navajo)/Seminole) is an artist, director of the C.N. Gorman Museum, and professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Ola Wlusek is the Keith D. and Linda L. Monda Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL.

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ISBN 13	9781785514142
ISBN 10	1785514148
Title	Reclaiming Home
Author	Ola Wiusek
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
Year published	2023-04-14
Number of pages	128
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