Annie Ross, Persimmon Tree Sanctuary
Annie Ross
Maya
Alternative Name
Annie Grace Ross
Date
2015
Medium Specific
Oil on board
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
Accession Number
2016.20.25.321
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
The series heroes/ghosts reflects upon urban and state-sponsored violence, human-made climate disruption, and how aboriginal logic works and prevails in its midst. the aboriginal spirit, relationship to Mother Earth and her Beings, are honored here.
Biography
Daughter of a strong traditional Maya mother and auntie and WWII veteran father (Sydney Mines, NS). Began education at home with plants, animals, art, Indigenous hand work, storytelling, and history in Compton, California. Now working as an artist/teacher in the Canadian west, with awesome on-going working relationships with friends/family from many First Nations/Indigenous communities regarding testimony of Home/Lands and Sacred Beings.
Dr. Annie Grace Ross is an alumna of Native American Studies at UCD (2002), whose studio practices reflect her research in social and environmental justice, indigenous sustainable technologies, grass-roots movements towards fulfillment of potential civil rights, the self and community in Home/Land. She is currently Associate Professor in First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University.
http://www.sfu.ca/people/anniegrace/about-annie.html
Dr. Annie Grace Ross is an alumna of Native American Studies at UCD (2002), whose studio practices reflect her research in social and environmental justice, indigenous sustainable technologies, grass-roots movements towards fulfillment of potential civil rights, the self and community in Home/Land. She is currently Associate Professor in First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University.
http://www.sfu.ca/people/anniegrace/about-annie.html
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