She was on the breastcancer list and she helped me get through the first tough year. She was a lovely woman and a great artist.
Last Thursday she passed away, after her breastcancer recurred after 14 years.
Here are some links to her work:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joane-...ert/8774661436
http://www.ammsa.com/guide/WINDGIC99ARTIST.html
Artist Cardinal-schubert leaves lasting legacy
Painter fought for native work
BY NANCY TOUSLEY, CALGARY HERALDSEPTEMBER 19, 2009
Joane Cardinal-Schubert, who died Thursday, was a strong and
passionate voice for the equality of native artists and native people,
who practised what she advocated in artworks that could be searing in
their condemnation of wrongs and lyrical in their invocations of
native culture.
Cardinal-Schubert died Thursday at Foothills Hospital of cancer, her
husband Mike Schubert said Friday. She was 67 years old.
Her death came as a shock to many people who were unaware the cancer she
had battled for 14 years had returned three months ago.
A painter, installation artist, writer, curator, poet, lecturer and
director of video and native theatre, Cardinal-Schubert was born in 1942
in Red Deer and studied art at the Alberta College of Art, the
University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, where she received
a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1977.
As an advocate for contemporary native artists at a time when they were
hardly collected and shown or, when they were shown, found themselves
pigeonholed in exhibitions of "native art," she was outspoken and
fearless of the consequences for her own career.
"She had great spirit," said her brother, the well-known architect
Douglas Cardinal. "I remember her as a child always interested in art
and I always encouraged her. As the older brother, I have always done my
best to support her and appreciate her ability and talent, and also her
struggle to be able to say it as it is and to be outspoken. She was a
pretty brave girl sometimes.
"I think she made a great contribution to art and to aboriginal people
and to all our lives with her continuing quest to be heard. I think she
is recognized nationally and internationally for her work.
"I was very proud of her to have that strength and that determination to
have her voice heard. I think she created quite a legacy for us all,
particularly for our family, and an inspiration for our family. I was
always proud of her achievements."
Her last public exhibition in Calgary was an installation work at her
dealer of 32 years, Masters Gallery, put on last July to coincide
with the Calgary meeting of the Royal Canadian Academy, of which she
was a member.
"Joane was a fiery, indomitable, free spirit," said Jeffrey Spalding,
president of the RCA. "She is renowned as a groundbreaking artist who
fought tenaciously for recognition of the qualities of First Nations
artists and inclusion of their issues and works in museums of art rather
than anthropology.
"Joane carried the burden of her fight with disease with great dignity
and privacy. Yet, she recently gamely came out to show support of
younger artists through her active participation as juror at the June
exhibition for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts at Stride Gallery; her
bravery and tenacity was well-noted."
Spalding said, "Her works are a wonderful admixture of societal critique
and probing autobiographical inquiry. Personally, I will fondly remember
the touching night sky pictures with tales of the ancestors written by
the stars."
Cardinal-Schubert and her close friend, artist Jane Ash Poitras, who
lives and works in Edmonton, followed the first generation of
contemporary native artists, who included Alberta painter Alex Janvier
and artists Norval Morrisseau and Daphne Odjig.
"Joane and Jane Ash Poitras could speak to the academics," said Janvier,
who also valued Cardinal-Schubert's honesty and determination. "Her
voice cannot be dismissed. I also think she brought class to native
painting. Her articulation of the issues was necessary. She was
important in crossing that academic bridge. Most of us did not have the
high-quality education that she had.
"Morrisseau took down that art Berlin Wall (by showing at the National
Gallery of Canada), but there had to be follow up. She was right there
in the heat of it, ahead of her time." But because she was an Indian
and a woman, Janvier said, she had to work doubly hard to accomplish
what she did.
Cardinal-Schubert was also an important role model for two generations
of younger artists. "She was my best friend for 35 years," said Jane Ash
Poitras. "She was a superstar. We hooked up in the early '80s and we
talked about everything. I don't think I'd be who I am without her. She
was a role model. . . . She smartened the art world up."
A celebration of Joane Cardinal-Schubert's life will be held at Masters
Gallery on Oct. 3 from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Cardinal-Schubert is survived by her husband Mike and sons Christopher
and Justin.
I hate this disease
Jacqueline
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