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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smithborn1940 Flathead Reservation, Montana; lives Corrales, New Mexico

Painter, printmaker, and collage maker, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith creates work that includes representational and abstracted images to create works with socio-political commentary including issues related to the environment, oppression, cultural appropriation, and Native American identity. An enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith was born in 1940 at the St. Ignatius Indian Mission on her reservation. As a child, she travelled around the Pacific Northwest and California with her father, a horse trader, and carried around small drawings of animals her father drew for her. Smith earned an associate of arts degree from Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington in 1960. She worked as a waitress, Head Start teacher, factory worker, librarian, janitor, veterinary assistant, and administrative assistant to help support herself while she sought additional education. She earned her bachelor's in Art Education from Framingham State College in Massachusetts in 1976 and then her master's in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1980. Smith's inspiration includes Native American art, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Robert Rauschenberg. She has exhibited in over eighty solo shows and organized and curated more than thirty exhibitions. Smith has received awards including the Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, New York, l987; the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement, 1997; the College Art Association Women’s Award, 2002; Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award, 2005; New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2005; Visionary Woman Award, Moore College, Pennsylvania, 2011; Elected to the National Academy of Art, New York, 2011; Living Artist of Distinction Award, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2012; NAEA Ziegfeld Lecture Award, 2014; The Woodson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015; and four honorary doctorates: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1998; Massachusetts College of Art, 2003; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2009. Today her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador; the Museum of Mankind, Vienna, Austria; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
ca. 1980-2000
Albuquerque
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1998
Camas II
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1980
Celebrate 80,000 years...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1997
Cheyenne #31
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
The Court House Steps
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1986
Earth People
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
2011
El Morro
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1981
Herding
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1985
Hunter Of Hungry Horse
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1979
Kalispell
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1980
Montana Stick Figures #1
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1999