Thank you for introducing me to Ms. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith 1st Nation's historical view . of this country. Her story and works of art should be taught in all schools.
“don’t take more than you need should be our motto” and the Work makes us take this to heart. The exhibit at the Whitney feels like JUSTICE however fleeting. “Lucky duck I am” love love love JQTSS
Thank you for this magnificent and moving Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective! I’m hoping this exhibit, along with the Rose B. Simpson’s sublime Counterculture watchers, celebrate the opening of the Whitney to the work and ways of knowing of many more fine artists from what is sometimes called INdian Country. I say this not just as a request for it’s-about-time representation of Indigenous artists at the Whitney or, through art, to bring suppressed US histories to cultural consciousness. It’s about confronting, as most Native Americans must do, vital contemporary issues. For example: How do we survive horrific trauma and catastrophic loss? How do we adapt to ongoing threats of annihilation? How do we use our knowledge of the natural world as a complex web of interrelationships to heal our environment, rather than be seduced by the hierarchical Western Civ Great Chain of Being view that puts Earth, upon which we depend for life, as of least value. As Coyote might say, and New Yorkers know, these issues aren’t just for Indians anymore. To Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Rose B. Simpson, should you read this comment: For me, and I believe many others, your exhibits have created a kind of healing ceremony. I’m deeply grateful for this. My mother, like thousands of other native children, was adopted into a White family in the 1920s era of kill-the-Indians-save-the-child abuse. In brief, this messed her up, big time. For many years, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s images have helped me bring a bearable coherence to my personal intergeneration trauma. And so when I heard of her retrospective at the Whitney, my dear daughter and I flew to NYC from North Carolina just to see her work “for real.” And it is for real, for sure! As my daughter said as we stood before a Trade Canoe painting, “She speaks the truth.” Not an easy truth, but with a complicated beauty , wit, hope, and, I believe irrepressible, Trickster Spirit. Thank you.
About time, for this retrospective, Jaune one of the greats!
I have been a fan of this media for so many Years that I'm short of words for
Thanking you enough.
Bravo!
Thank you for introducing me to Ms. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith 1st Nation's historical view . of this country. Her story and works of art should be taught in all schools.
Incredible artist
“don’t take more than you need should be our motto” and the Work makes us take this to heart. The exhibit at the Whitney feels like JUSTICE however fleeting. “Lucky duck I am” love love love JQTSS
running to this show in texas
Thank you for this magnificent and moving Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective! I’m hoping this exhibit, along with the Rose B. Simpson’s sublime Counterculture watchers, celebrate the opening of the Whitney to the work and ways of knowing of many more fine artists from what is sometimes called INdian Country.
I say this not just as a request for it’s-about-time representation of Indigenous artists at the Whitney or, through art, to bring suppressed US histories to cultural consciousness. It’s about confronting, as most Native Americans must do, vital contemporary issues. For example: How do we survive horrific trauma and catastrophic loss? How do we adapt to ongoing threats of annihilation? How do we use our knowledge of the natural world as a complex web of interrelationships to heal our environment, rather than be seduced by the hierarchical Western Civ Great Chain of Being view that puts Earth, upon which we depend for life, as of least value. As Coyote might say, and New Yorkers know, these issues aren’t just for Indians anymore.
To Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Rose B. Simpson, should you read this comment: For me, and I believe many others, your exhibits have created a kind of healing ceremony. I’m deeply grateful for this. My mother, like thousands of other native children, was adopted into a White family in the 1920s era of kill-the-Indians-save-the-child abuse. In brief, this messed her up, big time. For many years, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s images have helped me bring a bearable coherence to my personal intergeneration trauma. And so when I heard of her retrospective at the Whitney, my dear daughter and I flew to NYC from North Carolina just to see her work “for real.” And it is for real, for sure! As my daughter said as we stood before a Trade Canoe painting, “She speaks the truth.” Not an easy truth, but with a complicated beauty , wit, hope, and, I believe irrepressible, Trickster Spirit. Thank you.