Giiwedinong’s Visiting Indigenous Art Exhibits
Our featured Artists
Charles Rencountre
“Not Afraid to Look” is a sculpture erected at the Sacred Stone Camp on the Missouri River during the Standing Rock resistance gathering. The sculpture emerged from an “effigy pipe," originally carved and used at the end of the 17th century.
Isaac Murdoch
Isaac Murdoch's Thunderbird Woman, "Water is Sacred," artwork that is featured at Giiwedinong Museum as a mural on the building painted by Brian Dow, Red Lake Band of Ojibwe. This artwork is part of the revolution of Water Protectors.
Rabbett Strickland
Rabbett Strickland's paintings introduce viewers to Nanabozhoo, who first appeared to the artist in his dreams. Nanabozhoo is a complex character from Ojibwe mythology, both of the Earth and a creator of all things and creatures on Earth.
The Sweet Corn Treaty by Inkpa Mani
What does restorative justice look like? The Sioux and Chippewa Peace Treaty of 1870 gives a good example.
Commissioned artwork by Inkpa Mani.
Inkpa used pictographic images and ledger paper form the 1860-1905 to tell the story of the Sweet Corn Treaty.