Nationality Canadian | Thesis year 2005 Institution University of Regina | |
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Thesis title Reel artists: National Film Board of Canada portrayals of contemporary aboriginal and Inuit artists and their art. Sub discipline Women and Gender Studies Notable works Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers Books Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers People also search for Mark Cronlund Anderson, Ted Godwin, Lee-Ann Martin, Maurice Busque, Alfred Young Man | ||
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. She is an associate professor at the University of Regina, 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. She is also past president of the Native Heritage Foundation of Canada.
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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. Robertson works to promote the awareness of Aboriginal artists.
Career
Robertson's best-known book is Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers, co-written with Mark Cronlund Anderson. Seeing Red is a study about how Canadian English-language newspapers portray Aboriginal people. Seeing Red received the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing (2011), First Peoples' Writing (2011), and Regina Book of The Year (2011).
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.
A number of Robertson's writings focus on the Aboriginal Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, including Norval Marisseau: A Complex but Critical Legacy.
Robertson is a past president of the Native Heritage Foundation of Canada, where she advocated accessibility and preservation for collections of aboriginal Canadian art. She also serves on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, published by Cambridge University Press.