Jolene Rickard

Jolene Rickard, born 1956,[1] citizen of the Tuscarora nation, Turtle clan,[2] is an artist, curator and visual historian at Cornell University, specializing in indigenous peoples issues. Rickard co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.[3][4]

Jolene Rickard
Born1956
NationalityIroquois Tuscarora nation
EducationB.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology
M.F.A., Buffalo State College
Alma materPh.D., University of Buffalo (SUNY)
Known forCuration at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Photography
AwardsFord Foundation Research Grant
Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship

Biography

Rickard, granddaughter of Tuscarora chief Clinton Rickard,[5] was born in 1956 at Niagara Falls, New York. In 1977 Jolene Rickard attended the London College of Printmaking.[1] She received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and in 1991 she graduated with an MA from Buffalo State College.[1] Rickard earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Native component from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in 1996.[1] After her education and having worked as a television art director and graphic designer, she moved back to Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York.[6]

Well known pieces by the artist include 3 Sisters, a 1989 black-and-white photograph and color xerox (the artist's sleeping face interposed with squash, beans and corn, the Three Sisters staple crops); and I See Red in the 90's, a 1992 six-panel photograph series in protest of the quincentenary of Columbus' landing in America, also including a self-portrait.[6] Her ...the sky is darkening (2018), which incorporates beadwork by older traditional and contemporary artists, considers "deep reclamation of land by the Cayuga..."[7] She sees her photography as ultimately linked to "the manipulations of light and texture and the representations of cosmological space and spirituality of earlier generations of Iroquois beadwork artists".[8]

Academic career

Rickard is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University, and serves as the Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.[9][10] She also served as Interim Chair for the Art Department at Cornell between 2009 and 2010.[3]

Curatorial projects
  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, permanent exhibits: Our Peoples and Our Lives, Washington, D.C. 2004–present.
  • Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life. Co-Curator. Collaboration with Dr. Ruth Phillips, Kanataka, Kanien'kehaka Raotitiohkwa Cultural Center and McCord Museum, Quebec, 1995-99.[11]

Selected exhibitions
  • Red River Crossing, visiting curator, Gary Sholette, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY, November 1996[11]
  • Reservation X, curated by Gerald McMaster, Curator of Contemporary Art, Canadian Museum of Civilization, QC, April 1998[11]
  • Native Nations, curated by Jane Allison, Barbican Art Center, London, UK, October 1998[11]
  • New Voices/New Visions, curated by Janeen Antone, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA, October 1998[11]
  • Lifeworlds – Artscapes: Contemporary Iroquois Art, curated by Sylvia S. Kasprycki and Doris I. Strambrau, Museum Der Weltkulturen, Germany, February 2004[11]
  • Western New York and Beyond Exhibition, Albright Knox, curated by Louis Grachos, Buffalo, NY, June 2005[11]
  • The American West, curated by Jimmie Durham and Richard W. Hill, Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, GB, June through August, 2005[11]
  • Oh So Iroquois, curated by Ryan Rice, The Ottawa Art Gallery, ON, June 2007[11]
  • Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, June-Aug 2019; Frist Museum, Nashville, TN, Sept. 2019 – Jan. 2020; Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., Feb. – May 2020; and Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June – Sept, 2020.[12]

Awards
  • Ford Foundation Research Grant[13]
  • Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship on the thematic topic of "Global Aesthetics"; 2010-2011[11]

Bibliography
  • Lynda Jessup, ed. (2002), "Indigenous is the Local", On Aboriginal Representation In The Gallery, Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, OCLC 49352352
  • "The Local and the Global", Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian), 2006 Proceedings of conference held in Venice, Italy, December 2005
  • Francesco Pellizzi, Ivan Gaskell (guest editor), eds. (2007), Crossing Boundaries: Art Museums and Anthropology Museums in Search of Common Ground, Peabody Museum Press (Harvard University), OCLC 888596367CS1 maint: uses editors parameter (link)
  • J. C. H. King and Christian F. Feest, eds. (2007), "Haudenosaunee Art: 'In the Shadow of the Eagle.'", Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art: A Collection of Essays, Altenstadt: ZKF PublishersCS1 maint: uses editors parameter (link)
  • "Skin Seven Spans Thick", Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor, Washington DC: National Museum of the American Indian, 2010

See also

References
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  2. "Sisters of the Great Lakes Virtual Exhibit: Artists: Jolene Rickard". museum.cl.msu.edu. 2017. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. "Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora)". American Indian Program. Cornell University. 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  4. "Jolene Rickard - The Creative Time Summit". creativetime.org. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  5. Wanamaker, Tom (2005-11-30), Indian law scholars comment on proposed passport regulations, retrieved 2017-05-06
  6. Farris, Phoebe (1999), "Native American women artists", Women Artists of Color, Greenwood Press, pp. 85–88, ISBN 0-313-30374-6
  7. Witten, Patti (March 2, 2020). "Jolene Rickard's Work in Major Exhibition of Art by Native Women". Cornell AAP Art Architecture and Planning News. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  8. Berlo, Janet C.; Phillips, Ruth B. (1998). Native North American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 227.
  9. "Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora) | American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program". aiisp.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  10. "Jolene K. Rickard | History of Art and Visual Studies Cornell Arts & Sciences". arthistory.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  11. "Jolene Rickard". arthistory.cornell.edu. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  12. Yohe, Jill Ahlberg; Greeves, Teri (2019). Hearts of Our People. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art. ISBN 9780295745794.
  13. "Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora) | American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program". aiisp.cornell.edu. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
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