Dorothy Grandbois, Lee Marmon
Dorothy Grandbois
1952-
Turtle Mountain Chippewa
Date
2008
Medium Specific
digital print on matt paper
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Accession Number
2009.20.10.51
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
“Life in a boarding school or on the reservation is hard. Art is how I healed.”
“If I have a philosophy of art, it’s this: You have to know where you come from in order to know where you’re going,”
(https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/art-of-origin-studio-arts-at-iaia/article_4d989052-ffa1-573a-81d9-c4771673b6ad.html, 2020)
“If I have a philosophy of art, it’s this: You have to know where you come from in order to know where you’re going,”
(https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/art-of-origin-studio-arts-at-iaia/article_4d989052-ffa1-573a-81d9-c4771673b6ad.html, 2020)
Biography
Grandbois is a graduate of IAIA and the University of New Mexico, and has been a photography instructor at IAIA for 19 years. For Grandbois, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe, and for many artists in the department, working at IAIA is synonymous with engaging in questions of identity and representation. (https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/art-of-origin-studio-arts-at-iaia/article_4d989052-ffa1-573a-81d9-c4771673b6ad.html, 2020)
Inscription
Signed by artist, date: lrc.