Carmen Robertson

Carmen Robertson
Born	1962 (age 53–54) Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	Portland State University, University of Victoria, Brock University, University of Calgary
Thesis title	Reel artists: National Film Board of Canada portrayals of contemporary aboriginal and Inuit artists and their art.
Thesis year	2005
Academic work
Sub discipline	Women and Gender Studies
Institutions	University of Regina
Notable works	Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

Carmen L. Robertson is a writer and scholar of art history and indigenous peoples. She was born in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, of Lakota and Scottish ancestry.^[1] She is an associate professor at the University of Regina,^[2] where she has taught since 2006. Before she came to the University of Regina, she was the Indian Fine Arts department head at the First Nations University of Canada. A number of Robertson's writings focus on the Aboriginal Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau.^[3][4] She is also past president of the Native Heritage Foundation of Canada.

Education

Robertson received her BA in Liberal Arts at Portland State University in 1989, her MA in Art History at University of Victoria in 1993, her MEd in Aboriginal Adult Education at Brock University in 2001, and her PhD in Educational Research at the University of Calgary in 2005.^[5][6] Robertson works to promote the awareness of Aboriginal artists.^[7]

Career

Robertson's best-known book is Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers,^[8][9] co-written with Mark Cronlund Anderson.^[10][11][12] Seeing Red is a study about how Canadian English-language newspapers portray Aboriginal people.^[1][13] Seeing Red received the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing (2011), First Peoples' Writing (2011), and Regina Book of The Year (2011).^[14]

Robertson co-edited Clearing a Path: New Ways of Seeing Traditional Indigenous Art with Sherry Farrell Racette. This book was published by Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre in 2009 and it looks at notable Saskatchewan Metis artists.^[15]

A number of Robertson's writings focus on the Aboriginal Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau,^[3][4] including Norval Marisseau: A Complex but Critical Legacy.^[2]

Robertson is a past president of the Native Heritage Foundation of Canada, where she advocated accessibility and preservation for collections of aboriginal Canadian art.^[16] She also serves on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, published by Cambridge University Press.^[17]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Robertson, Carmen L. (1993). Gender relations and the Noli Me Tangere scene in renaissance Italy. [S.l.: s.n.] ISBN 9780315843660.
• Robertson, Carmen (1999). Le consentement. Cap-Saint-Ignace, Québec: La Plume d'oie. ISBN 9782922183887.
• Robertson, Carmen (2002). From wigwas to canvas : generations of Woodland art. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery. ISBN 9781896470467.
• Robertson, Carmen (2004). Abstraction and myth : Neal McLeod. Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery. ISBN 9781894882101.
• Robertson, Carmen; Racette, Sherry Farrell, eds. (2009). Clearing a path : new ways of seeing traditional indigenous art. Regina, Sask.: University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center. ISBN 9780889772267.
• Anderson, Mark Cronlund; Robertson, Carmen L. (2011). Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0887557279.

Articles

• "Utilizing PEARL to Teach Indigenous Art History: A Canadian Example". Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. 41 (1): 60–66. 2012.
• Fleischmann, Aloys N. M.; Van Styvendale, Nancy; McCarroll, Cody, eds. (2011). "Imaginary Citizens: The White Paper and the Whitewash in the Press". Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation State. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. pp. 233–262. ISBN 978-0-88864-518-0.
• "Thunderbirds and Concepts of Transformation in the Art of Norval Morrisseau". Journal of Canadian Art History. 33 (2): 53–70. 2012. JSTOR 42616592.
• Martin, Lee-Ann (2008). Bob Boyer : his life's work / le Travail D'une Vie, with essays by Ted Godwin, Carmen Robertson, Alfred Young Man. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery. ISBN 9781896470689.

References

1. Callison, Candis. "Enduring Colonialism in Canadian News". Canadian Literature.
2. "Art Canada Institute - Institut de l\xe2\x80\x99art canadien". www.aci-iac.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
3. Garrick, Rick (September 2013). "The genius of Morrisseau". Anishinabek News. p. 22.
4. Head, Tiffany (February 12, 2015). "Celebrating Norval Morrisseau's life and art". Eagle Feather News.
5. "Carmen Robertson". Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
6. Robertson, Carmen (2005). Reel artists: National Film Board of Canada portrayals of contemporary aboriginal and Inuit artists and their art (Ph.D thesis). University of Calgary. ISBN 9780494046104. OCLC 71816497.
7. Coutre, Joe (March 2008). "Prairie Art Needs More Exposure". Windspeaker. 25 (12): 20. ISSN 0834-177X. Retrieved 12 March 2016 – via EBSCO. (subscription required (help)).
8. Watson, H. G. (November 17, 2015). "Indigenous journalists are changing the news in Saskatchewan". J-Source.
9. "Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2016-03-12. There is no denying that the new book by University of Regina professors Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson is a valuable and valiant effort.
10. Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James (November 12, 2011). "Red difficult to find in black and white newspapers". Winnipeg Free Press.
11. Edwards, Brendan F.R. (2012). "Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers" (PDF). Native Studies Review. 21 (1): 153–154.
12. Thompson, Jon (February 18, 2012). "Book examines portrayal of First Nations in media". Kenora Daily Miner and News.
13. MacFarlane, Christine (2011). "2011 Review: Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers". Windspeaker - AMMSA.
14. "Archived Nominees". Saskatchewan Book Awards. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
15. "Clearing a Path: New Ways of Seeing Traditional Indigenous Art, hardcover ed". goodminds.com. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
16. Robertson, Carmen. "Letter #12: Carmen Robertson, Native Heritage Foundation". Fund First Nations University Now!. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
17. "The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education: Journal Editorial Board". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

External links

• Carmen Robertson, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina.