Montreal First Peoples Festival Opens to Standing Ovation

Theresa Braine
7/30/15
Seldom does an audience leap to its feet and erupt in cheers at the end of a movie...

Horrific Car Crash in Saskatchewan Kills Four Bright Lights in Aboriginal Arts

ICTMN Staff
2/13/15
Flags were lowered on Thursday February 12 in Regina and Ottawa as Canada mourned the deaths of four prominent artists in a horrific car wreck two days earlier...

Inuit Artist Kenojuak Ashevak Gets Posthumous Birthday Honors From Google Doodle Canada

ICTMN Staff
10/3/14
She brought Inuit, and indigenous, art to the fore with her distinctive style of animal prints, and was beloved by many...

'Walking in Their Shoes' Métis Artist Christi Belcourt Wins Major Award for Works

ICTMN Staff
7/12/14
Christi Belcourt, the Métis artist who created the stirring moccasin tribute to missing and murdered indigenous women, will receive the 2014 Ontario Arts Council Aboriginal Arts Aw...

Roy Thomas Retrospective Brings Late Artist’s Woodland Style to Life

Konnie LeMay
8/25/12
Playful and powerful, drenched in dramatic colors and embodying spiritual portals and storytelling charms, the paintings of artist Roy Thomas bring vividly to the canvas the spirit...

All-Call for Entries Into Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival

ICTMN Staff
4/17/12
Media submissions are being sought for inclusion in a new showcase, the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, which will occur June 19–24 in Ottawa...

Call to Artists to Design War of 1812 Battle Memorial in Queenston, Ontario

ICTMN Staff
1/5/12
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, during which the United States fought British and aboriginal forces in a conflict that helped define Canada a...

Works by Australian Aboriginal Artists Exhibited in Seattle

Richard Walker
4/14/11
Works by some of Australia’s most talented aboriginal artists are being exhibited at the Jeffrey Moose Gallery, 1333 Fifth Ave., through April...