Gail Tremblay

http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=282&Collection=&info=CV&ppage=6 5-28-2013Gail TremblayEdited from the Washington State Governor’s Award Biographical Statement written by Bitsy Bidwell at the Washington State Arts Commission when Tremblay received the award in 2001. "Gail Tremblay is of Onondaga and Micmac ancestry. She resides in Olympia, WA has been contributing to the arts and cultural life of Washington state for over twenty years, by sharing a unique vision through her multi-media visual works, art installations, her critical writing, and poetry. She is a professor at The Evergreen State College, where she has mentored hundreds of students in the fields of visual arts, writing, Native American and cultural studies. She has served the larger artistic community as a member and president of the National Board of the Women’s Caucus for Art, and received a national "Mid-Career Art Award" from that organization in 1993. Her influence has been felt on the international level through her two trips to China as part of women’s artists’ delegations, and her exhibitions in Switzerland in 1985, in China in 1995, in Mexico in 1998, and the Czech Republic in 2000. Her visual art has been featured in Washington in over 40 group and solo exhibits and throughout the nation in an additional 60 exhibits. Her writing and art has been published in more than 50 different books, journals, and periodicals, and she is in great demand as a lecturer and workshop presenter. She has worked for thirty years to assure that issues of diversity and gender equity are addressed in the teaching of art, in the writing of art criticism and art history, in the curating of exhibits, and in the granting of public and private funding to artists and art institutions." FROELICK GALLERYGail E. TremblayBorn Buffalo, NYNation AffiliationOnondaga and MicmacEducation1969 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Oregon1967 Bachelor of Arts in Drama, University of New HampshireSolo Exhibitions2013 Reframing Images, Conceptualizing Indigenous Art, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR2009 Recycled Images/Iroquois Forms, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR2005 Iókste Akerweriá:ne/ It Is Heavy on My Heart, installation at Palacio des Artes, Belo Horisonte, Brazil (part of the 5th Encuetro dos Performances)2002 Gail Tremblay: Twenty Years of Making, Sacred Circles Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Seattle, WA.1998 Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA Installation and Retrospective, Gallery IV, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA1995-1996 The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Sacred Circles Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle, WA.1994 The Empty Fish Trap Installation (with video of both images of sound tracks for presentation at the college and at the 4th World Conference on Women NGO Forum panel on Art and the Environment), Gallery 4, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1988 Gail Tremblay: Fiber, Metal, Wood, Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, MT1984 Exhibit of fiber pieces and drawings, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN1982 Exhibit of weaving, drawing, silverwork, beadwork, pottery & moosehair embroidery, Gallery 4, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WAGroup Exhibitions2013 On the Trails of the Iroquois, Art and Exhibition Hall, Bonn, Germany, curated by Sylvia Kapriycki Together Again, Gorman Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA (with Lillian Pitt, Rick Bartow & Joe Feddersen) Changing Hands, Art without Reservation 3, Memorial Art Museum, Rochester, NY & McMichael Collection, Kleinberg, Ontario, Canada2012 Changing Hands, Art without Reservation 3, Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY Pacific Rim Exhibit, Quintana Gallery, Portland, OR Pacific Rim Exhibit, Emergence from Place – Neo Traditional Indigenous Art, The Art Center Gallery, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR Weave: Contemporary North Coast Weavers, Stonington Gallery, Seattle, WA2011 All Things Considered VI, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (catalog)Cultural Confluence, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA Coyote Forward: Contemporary Expressions of Native American Art, B2 Gallery, Tacoma, WA2010 Transcending Tradition, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ Show of Hands, Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA In/Sight 2010, Chelsea Museum, New York City, NY2009 Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY2008 Tattered Cultures: Mended Histories, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI2008 Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Amherst College, Amherst, MAGroup Exhibitions continued2006-8 Women Only! In Their Studios, a seven city touring exhibit of works by 20 female artists, curated by Eleanor Flomenhoft2005 The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Hallie Ford Art Center, Willamette University, Salem, OR2004 Iókste Akweriá:ne/It is Heavy on My Heart installation, Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR2004-7 Artrain National Touring Exhibit, Ann Arbor, MI2004 Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, WA2003 American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, NY2002 One Year Later, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA Exhibit of pottery and basketry, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM2001 Halle Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR Voices of Water (with Imna Arroyo, Betsy Damon, Shi Hui, Li Xiuqin, Laurie Meeker and Lillian Pitt), Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR Who Stole the Teepee, National Museum of the American Indian in the Customs House in New York City. A catalogue accompanies the exhibit. 2000 Voices of Water (with Lillian Pitt, Imna Arroyo, and Betsy Damon), CESTA Festival in Tabor, Czech Republic Exhibit curated by Steve Charles, Sacred Circles Gallery for the Washington State Convention Center Exhibit of Native American Artists living in the Northwest for the Women in Western History Conference, Washington State University, Pullman, WA Circle of Friends: Distinct Visions, Bush Barn Gallery, Salem, OR 1999 Shadow Magic Traps Sweet Meat, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI1999 Group Exhibit, Froelick Adelhardt Gallery, Portland, OR Shadow Magic Traps Sweet Meat, Centro Cultural El Juglar, Mexico, D.F.1998 Group Exhibit, Sunbird Gallery, Bend, OR. Indian Humor Show, National Museum of the American Indian, the Heye Foundation, Customs House in New York City, NY Group Exhibit, Froelick Adelhart Gallery, Portland, OR Sex and Shamanism: The Seduction of Stereotypes and Misrepresentations of Native Peoples, C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA1997 Native American Group exhibit at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse that toured to various colleges and art centers in Michigan and Wisconsin1996 Beijing and Beyond, Women's Caucus for the Art, United Nations, New York City, NY Calyx Cover Girls, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in Portland, OR The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR Woman of Color in Art, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Sacred Circles Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle, WA1995 Women's Caucus for Art, Non-Governmental Organization Forum of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Huairou, China Sculpture,'95, Sacred Circles Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Seattle, WA Agents of Change: New Views by Northwest Women, Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, WA In the Shadow of the Eagle, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY1994 The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Gallery 4,The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Watchful Eyes: Native American Women Artists, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalogue) The Empty Fish Trap Installation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Native America: Reflecting Contemporary Realities, Warms Springs Museum, OR Indian Humor, American Indian Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Gathering Medicine Show, Art-in-General, New York City, NY1993 Greetings from 93 for '94, Steinbaum-Krauss Gallery, New York City, NY Women of the New World III, Native American Women's Group Exhibit, Cunningham Gallery, Women's Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Northwest Native American and 1st Nations Art, Western Gallery, Western Washington State University, Bellingham, WA.1993 19Rhythms of Visions: 15 Contemporary Native American Artists, Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, Linfield, ORGroup Exhibitions continued1993 Installation (with Betsy Damon), WCA National Juried Exhibit, Seattle, WA For the Seventh Generation: Native American Artists Counter the Quincentenary, Arts Council Gallery, Norwich, NY (catalogue) Native America: Reflecting Contemporary Realities, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA1992 Exhibit with Joe Feddersen and R.E. Bartow, Skagit Valley Community College, WA Workshop/Exhibit of handmade paper pieces (with Naoaki Sakamoto), Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR Face of the Soul, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA Native American exhibit, Columbia Art Center, Hood River, OR 5th Biennial Native American Fine Arts Invitational, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Seattle Women Artists, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, WA1991 Submuloc Show (with Neil Parsons),a national touring exhibit funded by NEA through ATLATL as a Native American response to the Columbus Quincentennial Celebration, which opened at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (catalogue) Definitive American Quilt Exhibit, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York City (catalogue) 1990 Artifacts to the Seventh Generation (catalogue), Festival 2000, San Francisco, CA Never Been Shown, Seattle Arts Commission, Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts in Seattle, WA Eleven Stories: Work by Eleven Contemporary Native American Artists, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA Americas Pan Native Exhibit, Windhorse Gallery, Seattle, WA Ancestors Known and Unknown: Box Works organized by Coast to Coast: National Women Artists of Color at Art in General in New York City, NY1989 Feddersen, Parsons, Tremblay, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Changing Forms Enduring Spirit,Pacific Arts Center, Seattle, WA Traditions Emerging into the Future, Contemporary and Traditional Art of American Indian Women, University of Wisconsin Fall River, WI Native Expressions of Surrealism, Sacred Circle Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Seattle, WA Masks: Cultural and Contemporary, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA Four-person exhibit of masks, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, NY As in Her Vision, American Indian Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, CA & Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Coast to Coast Women of Color Book Exhibit (catalogue), Diverse Works, Houston, TX 1988 Exhibit of contemporary Native American art to support the coming of Iroquois leaders to plant the Peace Tree in Washington, DC Native American Artists, Graystone Gallery, Portland, OR Coyote, Sunbird Gallery, Bend, OR New Directions Northwest: Contemporary Native American Art Exhibit, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (catalogue) 1987 Masks, Art with Textures, Seattle, WA The Soaring Spirit: Contemporary Native American Arts, curated by Kay Walkingstick, Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ1986 Native American Art: Our Contemporary Vision (in conjunction with the NIEA Conference), City Hall Gallery, Reno, NV Group exhibit, Quintana Gallery, Portland, OR in conjunction with the "Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage Exhibit" at the Portland Art Museum.1985 The Visage Transcended, American Indian Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Spectrum: Art by Native Americans, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA1985 The Mask: Traditions/Innovations,The Stonington Gallery,Seattle, WA Native American artist exhibit, North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, WA New Ideas from Old Traditions: Contemporary Native American Art, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage National Touring Exhibit, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, NY Group Exhibitions continued1985 Northwest Art from Alaska, Washington and OR, American Indian Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA1984 Mask exhibit at Greystone Gallery, Portland, OR Artistas Indigenas, Mujeres Unidas,Skylark Studios,Portland, OR No Beads, No Trinkets, Palais des Nations at the United Nations,Geneva, Switzerland1984 Ancient Visions Through Contemporary Native American Art, Hallie Ford at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York Contemporary Native American Art, touring exhibit curated by Oklahoma State University, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts Group exhibition, Sacred Circles Gallery in Seattle, WA1982 Faculty show, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA1980 Omaha Weavers' & Spinners' Guild Show, D'Angelo Gallery, College of St. Mary, Omaha, NE1979 40 Fiberworks, Nebraska Arts Council, NE Nebraska Crafts Exhibition, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln, NE Morningside College, Sioux City, IO1978 Western Heritage Museum, NE Sheep to Shawl Exhibit, Eastern Nebraska Omaha Weaver's and Spinners' Guild, Gallery 72.1976 The Image of Poetry (with George Starbuck, Rosellen Brown, Paul Brown, Marie Harris, Jeanine Dobbs, and Michael McMahon) ,Thorne Art Gallery, Keene State College, NH 1975 New Hampshire Weavers' Exhibition, Jaffery Civic Center, NH1968-1969 Wesley Foundation and the New World Gallery in Eugene, ORPublications2013 Reweaving History, American Craft, Suzanne Beal, April/May, pp.34-352011 Manifestations, essay by Jennifer Vigil, publisher: Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, pp.178-179. ISBN:978-0-615-48904-92010 Show of Hands, Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010, exhibition catalog, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, essay: Barbara Matilsky, p 332009 Recycled Images/Iroquois Forms at Froelick Gallery, art ltd, July/August, p.20. by Richard Speer.2008 ‘Tattered Cultures’ at the Academy Art Center, Artweek, November Vol.39 Issue 92006 Carriers of Culture, Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Summer 2006, Vol. 7, No. 22006 Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York, April 28 – September 3, 2006 1998 Indian Singing: Poems by Gail Tremblay, (Revised Edition) Calyx Press, Corvallis, OR1990 Indian Singing in Twentieth Century America, Calyx Press, Corvallis, OR1981 Talking to the Grandfathers, (a book length collection of poems) in Annex 21, Number 3, University of Nebraska-Omaha Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry The 1981 Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry Dancing on the Rim of the World Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry New Voices from the Longhouse Returning the Gift. Related Employment1980 - Present Faculty at The Evergreen State College, teaching programs in the visual arts1999 Headed a Delegation of Women Artist's from the Women's Caucus for Art to meet women artists and art professionals in Beijing, Guillin, Hangzhou, and Shanghai.Related Employment continued1993 Curated Defining Our Realities: Native American Women Photographers, an exhibit with Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Shelley Niro, Patricia Deadman, Glenda Guilmet, Carm Little Turtle, Carolyn Orr, Pena Bonita, Jane Ash Poitra, and Jolene Rickard at the Sacred Circles Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Seattle, WA1992 Co-curated "Decolonizing the Mind - End of a Five Hundred Year Era" with Joe Feddersen at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA. (catalogue)1977-1981 Full-time assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program with an adjunct appointment in Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha1980 Art Resource Person and Director of the Art Program at Camp Ny-Mu-Mah, a summer camp for Native American young people from several reservations and urban areas held on Warm Spring Reservation in Oregon and sponsored by Indian Youth of America1980 Art Resource Person and Director of Arts and Crafts at Camp Victorio, a summer camp for Native American young people from several reservations and urban areas held in Arizona and sponsored by Indian Youth of America1979 Taught a course in Native American weaving techniques, The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.1978 Taught a course in Native American arts and crafts North of Mexico at the Nebraska State Penal and Correctional Institution in Lincoln, NE1977 Art Resource Person and Director of the Art Program at Camp Ny-Mu-Mah, a summer camp for Native American young people from several reservations and urban areas held on Warm Springs Reservation, OR Part-time lecturer in Textile Weaving, Department of Home Economics, Keene State College, Keene, NHAwards and Honors2001 Governor’s Art Award for the State of Washington1999-2000 President of the National Board of the Women's Caucus for Art.1989-2000 Member of the National Board of the Women's Caucus for Art.1993 Women's Caucus for Art Mid-Career Award for Distinguished contributions to the Women's Art Movement by the President of WCA1988-1989 Member of the Second Circle Board for the Northwest Region to the ATLATL Native American Arts NetworkCollectionsArkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, ARThe Department of the Interior, Washington, DCHallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, ORMicrosoft, Seattle, WAOregon Convention Center Extension, Portland, ORPortland Art Museum, Portland, ORSmithsonian / National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DCTri-Met North Interstate Light Rail Station at Portland Boulevard, Portland, ORWashington StateWhatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA-------------------------------http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A175 5-28-2013Native American AuthorsGail Tremblay , 1945- Onondaga Mi'kmaq Gail Tremblay was born in Buffalo, New York. Tremblay earned her B.A. in Drama from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon. Tremblay has received many awards for her poetry. She is also known for her work as a visual artist. All of her work, written and visual, draws upon the traditional culture of her heritage. Tremblay has been on the faculty of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington since 1981. Online resources by or about Gail Tremblay:Artists' Statements and Biographies: Gail Tremblay Author: Heard Museum Type: authorbio Description: Part of "Watchful Eyes", a Heard Museum exhibit focusing on Native American Women Artists. URL: http://www.heard.org/exhibits/watchfuleyes/agtr.html Casa de Cortez, Antigua, Veracruz by Gail E. Tremblay Author: Gail E. Tremblay Type: etext Description: Poem written by Tremblay and published in the March 1997 issue of The Raven Chronicles. URL: http://www.speakeasy.org/ravenchronicles/raven/rvback/issues/0397/cortez.htm En La Casa Museo de Augustin Lara, Veracruz by Gail E. Tremblay Author: Gail E. Tremblay Type: etext Description: Poem written by Tremblay and published in the March 1997 issue of The Raven Chronicles. URL: http://www.speakeasy.org/ravenchronicles/raven/rvback/issues/0397/enlaca.htm Seattle Aquarium, Spring, 1995 by Gail E. Tremblay Author: Gail E. Tremblay Type: etext Description: Poem written by Tremblay and published in the March 1997 issue of The Raven Chronicles. URL: http://www.speakeasy.org/ravenchronicles/raven/rvback/issues/0397/aqua95.htm Books by Gail Tremblay:Tremblay, Gail. Close to Home Omaha : University of Nebraska, 1981. Genre: Poetry Audience: Adult Tremblay, Gail. Indian Singing in 20th Century America Corvallis, OR : Calyx Books, 1990. Genre: Poetry Audience: Adult ISBN: 093497165X Tremblay, Gail. Night gives women the word Omaha : Omaha Printing Company, 1979. Genre: Poetry Audience: Adult