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Juane quick to see Smith was an important_____and_______
Indigenous artist and curator
What types of art was she known for?
Paintings collages, installation art dealing with native American history and culture
State names engages the histories of what two things
Cartography and naming
When was she born?
1940
She was a member of what tribes
Confederate Salish, and kootenai tribes
Where were these tribes located?
The flathead nation of Montana
Her childhood can be described as
Difficult
Who is she raised by?
Single Father
Her father would try to find a Work as what
Horse trainer or rodeo performer
What did she learn from her father?
Carpentry
From who did she get an interest in creating things by hand from?
Her father
When did she start taking college art classes?
1958
When did she complete her undergraduate degree
1976
What year did she move?
19 76
Where did she move to in 1976?
New Mexico
What did she begin in New Mexico?
Curator career
What did she earn while she was there?
MA of the University of New Mexico
When did she win this?
1980
What was she best known for?
Large scale artworks, dealing with histories of Native American life
What are two of her best stone pieces?
The red mean: self portrait, 1992
Trade: gifts for trading land with white people 1992
What year was both of her best known pieces created?
1992
Her Work incorporates layered references to what for topics
Popular culture
Art history
American
Ecology
What did Smith say her life's work involved
Examining contemporary life in America, interpreting it through native ideology
When did she curate her first major exhibition
1992
Her first exhibition featured how many Native American artists
38
Her exhibition traveled to how many locations
Dozens
What was the name of this exhibition?
Submuloc show - Columbus wohs
Submuloc meaning
Spell Columbus backwards
This exhibition was a response to what
500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus seen through indigenous viewpoints
What was her most recent curatorial project?
The land carries our ancestors
What kind of art was seen at this recent show?
Contemporary art by Native Americans
Where was this recent show?
The national Gallery of art
When was this recent show?
2023-24
When did she pass away?
2025
What is state names about?
The origin of place names in North America
What is the map display?
Map of the United States with parts of Canada and Mexico, surrounded by inky ocean
What is labeled on the map?
State names that come from indigenous languages
What is not labeled on the map?
State names with European origins
What did she recount in a 2024 interview?
Her father was beaten at a boarding school for speaking Salish
What was the name of her tribal newspaper?
Char-Koosta News
State names, loosely resembles what
Brightly colored paintings of the US map by Jasper John's
Jasper, John's was what kind of artist
American pop artist
What simple forms did John's use?
Maps
The alphabet
The American flag
Text from newspapers
Advertisements
John touchstones are more about instant recognition as what
Popular icons
What does Smith tiger painted Maps to?
Native American identity
What is the font of the indigenous state names?
Uniform and newspaper like large and legible
What is state names as the viewer to think about?
How native words and places are all around us yet we don't think of native peoples as modern existing
Smith considers how indigenous ways of knowing cannot be bound by what
Straight lines in arbitrary divisions of cartographic knowledge
Mini counties are named after important
Political figures
When did Smith provide insight on what natives reject?
2018
Smith wrote that native ways of knowing reject what notion
Humankind is in control of nature
Smith called that what was central to her upbringing
Sensory experience place
What did Smith say was sacred?
Land sky, water, anything in the natural world
What word did she use to reject the idea of her thoughts as spiritual 60s nonsense?
It's not hippie dippy stuff
State names highlights, the
Arbitrary nature of administrative divisions
What notable border is determined by natural features?
United States in Mexico, Rio Grande
Examples of natural divisions
The 90° angles created by the four corner states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah
The four corner states
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah
These natural divisions are drawn without regard of what 2
Geological boundaries or indigenous communities
An example of this disregard is what reservation
Navajo nation
The Navajo nation is also called
Dinetah
The Navajo nation is the
Largest reservation by land area in the US
The Navajo Nations bands across what
Three of the four corner states
In state names, what becomes blurred and illegible
Borderlines
What's an example of this blurring?
Southeastern Arkansas runs seamlessly into northeastern Mississippi
Arkansas and Mississippi are rendered in shades of
Blue green
What displays a reminder of the past indigenous empire
Yellow streams from Oklahoma seeping down into Texas
What empire is this indicative of?
Comanche Empire