Native Love

Artists: Mary Anne Barkhouse, Florence Belmore, Michael Belmore, Kathleen Deerhouse, Don Patrick Martin, Mary Longman, Gary Godfriedson, Ryan Rice, Aaron Rice, Barbara Robertson, Eric Robertson, Rose Spahan, Jeannette Armstrong, Jani Lauzon. Lori Blondeau and Bradlee Laroque

Curators: Cathi Charles Wherry and George Charles

Date: February 14 to March 8, 1997

Artists' Lecture: February 14

Nation to Nation presented Native Love, a group exhibition of collaborative works by contemporary native artists, and writers that explored the theme of love from a First Nations' perspective. Media images of aboriginal people have ranged from the dedicated yet dehumanized warrior to the amourous Pochahontas. Rarely do we see real representations of Native people and their loved ones. Native Love offered a different perspective inspired by a topic that touches on the passionate and passive, the sexual and celibate, the romantic and fraternal, and the humourous. 

Lori Blondeau and Bradlee LaRocque, Cosmosqua, 1996, Duratrans light box

Nation to Nation is a group of Native artists whose common goals were to be active as artists; to create a forum for dialogue on issues of art, race and culture; and to support and learn from each other.