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Algonquin World 1991.pdf
This program was created to accompany a 1991 gallery show featuring seven artists from the community of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake at Rapid Lake, Quebec. Since the late 1940s they had traveled seasonally to Western New York, where their skills…

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A handcarved moosehead that is stained and varnished. This piece of art represents a lot of things for the Algonquin tribe. Moose were hunted and used for food, hide, and fur but the artwork is to honor the animals life and the exchange that nature…

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Nicolas Estrada.jpg
A vibrant visual representation of hands and fingers contained in a circle. The hands surround another circle and point upwards perhaps referencing spiritual dimensions. The cool-toned colors and petal-like bumps around the circle give this mandala a…

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Javier Sanchez--Star.jpg
Vivid design combines naturalistic and geometric elements: what may be taken as a six-petaled flower, perhaps a lily, also contains one or perhaps two six-pointed stars. Moreover, it's not clear whether this is a single flower with stamens, or…

Javier Sanchez--Birds.jpg
Focus of drawing is a pair of mating birds on a tree branch, one with a spiky red flower in its beak--perhaps a type of paintbrush native to Mexico. In the remaining space we see a stream that traces its origins to the mountains, snow-capped using a…

Jabneel Pacheco.jpg
Perhaps influenced by geocentric cosmologies, earth is divided in four quandrants: two on land (a prickly pear cactus and a fire), and two under water. Surrounding the planet are four nested spheres: a rainbow of multicultural colors, upon which…
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