CHEYENNE, by JAUNE QUICK TO SEE SMITH
1986, Pastel on Paper, 33.5 x25.5″, purchased from the artist with the Montana Cultural Trust Fund (1986.19)
ABOUT THE ARTIST: JAUNE QUICK TO SEE SMITH
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She has an Associate of Arts degree from Olympic College, a Bachelor’s in Art Education from Framingham State College, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of New Mexico. Her work was first displayed in a museum within the Indian Art Now exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in 1978. Since then, her work has been displayed nationally and internationally in museums including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, and more. She has had over eighty solo exhibitions throughout her 30-year career. She also has participated in several public art works, including creating a floor design in the Great Hall of the Denver Airport, a sculpture in Yerba Buena Park, and a sidewalk history tour in West Seattle. Her work was the first by a Native painter to be purchased by the National Gallery of Art.
GUIDING QUESTIONS AND VOCABULARY
Questions for Viewing:
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS):
- What do you see in this drawing? What do you notice?
- What makes you say that?
- What else do you see in this drawing? / What more can we find?
Additional Questions:
- What is repeated in this drawing?
- Is the drawing realistic or abstract?
- Is Jaune telling a story?
- Based on this artwork, what things are important to her?
- Where do you think she started?
Art Vocabulary:
- Mixed Media- a variety of media or materials in a work of art
- Realistic- art that shows the real world as it appears
- Abstract- a form of art often with no recognizable subject, instead the artist explores colors and shapes
- Sketch- a light, quick drawing
- Emphasis- the part of an artwork that catches the viewers attention
IEFA Vocabulary:
- Salish and Kootenai: See Montana Indians and their History and Location – Flathead Reservation
- https://opi.mt.gov/Portals/182/Page%20Files/Indian%20Education/Indian%20Education%20101/ Montana%20Indians%20Their%20History%20and%20Location.pdf
LESSON PLAN: MIXED MEDIA DRAWING
Lesson Overview: Students use an assortment of 2D materials to create artwork showcasing things that are important to them.
STANDARDS
National Visual Arts Standards:
- VA:Cr1.2.3a: Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal interests, questions and curiosity.
- VA:Cr2.1.3a: Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
- VA:Ps6.1.4a: Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.
Montana Standards: Visual Arts
- Anchor Standard #2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Create artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials
- Anchor Standard #3: Refine and complete artistic work. Elaborate on artwork by adding details to enhance meaning.
- Anchor Standard #8: Construct meaningful interpretations of artistic work. Discuss the use of media to create subject matter, form, and mood in artwork.
IEFA
- Essential Understanding 1: There is great diversity among the twelve sovereign tribes of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories, and governments. Each tribe has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana.
- Essential Understanding 2: Just as there is great diversity among tribal nations, there is great diversity among individual American Indians as identity is developed, defined, and redefined by entities, organizations, and people. There is no generic American Indian.
- Essential Understanding 3: The ideologies of Native traditional beliefs and spirituality persist into modern day life as a tribal cultures, traditions, and languages are still practiced by many American Indian people and are incorporated into how tribes govern and manage their affairs.
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