No present without the past. No equality without feminism.
Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have shaped Shirley Bear's visual art, poetry, and political activism and presents the integral relationship amongst these important activities in her life.
Countering the invisible silent status ascribed to Indigenous women by patriarchal history and convention, Bear's primary focus has been the recovery of the feminine role in the ancestral life of First Nations culture. Featuring more than 30 reproductions of her work with essays by Terry Graff, Susan Crean, and Carol Taylor, Nekt wikuhpon ehpit both depicts and examines the essential feminine imagery of Bear's work in their symbolic, archetypal, or representative forms.
Shirley Bear's work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies, including Kelusultiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic Canada and The Colour of Resistance. She received the New Brunswick Excellence in the Arts Award in 2002.
Pas de pré sent sans le passé . Pas d'é galité sans fé minisme.
Nekt wikuhpon ehpit rassemble les sources, l'inspiration et les circonstances personnelles qui ont faç onné l'art visuel, la poé sie et l'activisme politique de Shirley Bear et les pré sente la relation inté grale entre ces activité s importantes dans sa vie.
Contre le statut de silence invisible attribué aux femmes autochtones par l' histoire et les conventions patriarcales, Bear se concentre principalement sur le ré tablissement du rô le fé minin dans la vie ancestrale de la culture des Premiè res Nations. Avec plus de 30 reproductions de son travail avec des essais de Terry Graff, Susan Crean et Carol Taylor, Nekt wikuhpon ehpit dé peint l'imagerie fé minine essentielle du travail de Bear sous leurs formes symboliques, arché typales ou repré sentatives.
Le travail de Shirley Bear a é té pré senté dans des expositions au Canada, aux é tats-Unis et en Europe. Ses é crits ont é té pré senté s dans plusieurs anthologies, notamment Kelusultiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic Canada et The Color of Resistance. Elle a reç u le Prix d'excellence dans les arts du Nouveau-Brunswick en 2002.
