Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Indigenous American: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation
Indigenous American: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, b. 1940
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She grew up on several other reservations in the Pacific Northwest but always returned to her relations on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Reservation in Montana. She holds a BA in art education from Framingham State College (now Framingham State University) in Massachusetts and an MA in visual arts from the University of New Mexico. In addition, Smith has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, and the University of New Mexico for her work and outreach to a wide spectrum of audiences. Smith’s roles as artist, teacher, curator, and activist have resulted in hundreds of exhibitions over the course of 50 years, featuring both her work and that of other artists across the United States and in Europe. Most recently, Smith curated The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, an exhibition highlighting artworks by some fifty living Native artists at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (September 22, 2023 - January 15, 2024).
Source: Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
Indigenous American: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation
Indigenous American: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, b. 1940
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She grew up on several other reservations in the Pacific Northwest but always returned to her relations on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Reservation in Montana. She holds a BA in art education from Framingham State College (now Framingham State University) in Massachusetts and an MA in visual arts from the University of New Mexico. In addition, Smith has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, and the University of New Mexico for her work and outreach to a wide spectrum of audiences. Smith’s roles as artist, teacher, curator, and activist have resulted in hundreds of exhibitions over the course of 50 years, featuring both her work and that of other artists across the United States and in Europe. Most recently, Smith curated The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, an exhibition highlighting artworks by some fifty living Native artists at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (September 22, 2023 - January 15, 2024).
Source: Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
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Untitled 1993.089
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