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Kali Spitzer (b. 1987) is a Canadian indigenous photographer. Kali Spitzer is [[Kaska Dena]] from the Yukon and then[[Kaska_Tribal_Council | Daylu]] ([[Lower Post]], [[British Columbia]]). Her father is [[Kaska Dena]] and her mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalispitzer.photoshelter.com/about|title=Kali Spitzer Photography: About|last=Spitzer|first=Kali|date=|website=Kali Spitzer Photography|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/photography-tintype-native-american-artists/|title=Reclaiming an old medium to tell new stories of Native Americans|last=Berger|first=Maurice|date=October 8, 2018|website=National Geographic|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> |
Kali Spitzer (b. 1987) is a Canadian indigenous photographer. Kali Spitzer is [[Kaska Dena]] from the Yukon and then[[Kaska_Tribal_Council | Daylu]] ([[Lower Post]], [[British Columbia]]). Her father is [[Kaska Dena]] and her mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalispitzer.photoshelter.com/about|title=Kali Spitzer Photography: About|last=Spitzer|first=Kali|date=|website=Kali Spitzer Photography|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/photography-tintype-native-american-artists/|title=Reclaiming an old medium to tell new stories of Native Americans|last=Berger|first=Maurice|date=October 8, 2018|website=National Geographic|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> |
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Spitzer has worked with film in 35mm, 120 and large-format, as well as wet plate collodion process using an 8-by-10 camera<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ccna-dineyazhi-spitzer/|title=CCNA: Dene bāhī Naabaahii|last=|first=|date=|website=Portland Art Museum|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. She does work in portraiture. She also photographs cultural practices and ceremonies in her community |
Spitzer has worked with film in 35mm, 120 and large-format, as well as wet plate collodion process using an 8-by-10 camera<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ccna-dineyazhi-spitzer/|title=CCNA: Dene bāhī Naabaahii|last=|first=|date=|website=Portland Art Museum|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>. She does work in portraiture. She also photographs cultural practices and ceremonies in her community. At the age of 20, she returned to the Yukon, where she is originally from, and documented the cultural practices around hunting, fishing, trapping, tanning moose and caribou hides, and beading<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.neverapart.com/features/kali-spritzer-exploring-resilience/|title=Kali Spitzer: Exploring Resilience|last=Jay|first=Mikela|date=January 16, 2017|website=Never Apart|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref>. She is also known to use [[tintype]] photography as a means to place her work "in dialogue with the problematic history of Native American imagery by white photographers"<ref name=":1" /> |
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Spitzer received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award in 2017 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/news/reveal-indigenous-art-awards/|title=150 Indigenous Artists Receive $1.5 Million in Awards|last=|first=|date=April 12, 2017|website=Canadian Art|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> from the [[Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards|Hnatyshyn Foundation]]. |
Spitzer received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award in 2017 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/news/reveal-indigenous-art-awards/|title=150 Indigenous Artists Receive $1.5 Million in Awards|last=|first=|date=April 12, 2017|website=Canadian Art|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 30, 2019}}</ref> from the [[Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards|Hnatyshyn Foundation]]. |
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Kali Spitzer
Kali Spitzer (b. 1987) is a Canadian indigenous photographer. Kali Spitzer is Kaska Dena from the Yukon and then Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia). Her father is Kaska Dena and her mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. [1][2]
Spitzer has worked with film in 35mm, 120 and large-format, as well as wet plate collodion process using an 8-by-10 camera[3]. She does work in portraiture. She also photographs cultural practices and ceremonies in her community. At the age of 20, she returned to the Yukon, where she is originally from, and documented the cultural practices around hunting, fishing, trapping, tanning moose and caribou hides, and beading[4]. She is also known to use tintype photography as a means to place her work "in dialogue with the problematic history of Native American imagery by white photographers"[2]
Spitzer received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award in 2017 [5] from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.
Spitzer's photograph Sister (2016) is the image used as the basis for the sculpture Every One, which is part of the social engagement work called the MMIWQT Bead Project by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger[6]. The work was made up of 4,000-plus clay beads made by people all over North America as to create portrait in a way to “rehumanize data” surrounding missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer and trans people[7].
Education
Spitzer earned her certificate in Professional Photography from the Western Academy of Photography and has studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the mentorship of Will Wilson[3].
Exhibitions
Kali Spitzer's work has been shown at the the 2018 Contemporary Native Art Biennial, was exhibited at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke, Quebec[8], The Portland Art Museum's Center for Contemporary Native Art[3], the Never Apart Centre in Montreal, Quebec[4], and grunt gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.
References
- ^ Spitzer, Kali. "Kali Spitzer Photography: About". Kali Spitzer Photography.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b Berger, Maurice (October 8, 2018). "Reclaiming an old medium to tell new stories of Native Americans". National Geographic. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c "CCNA: Dene bāhī Naabaahii". Portland Art Museum.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b Jay, Mikela (January 16, 2017). "Kali Spitzer: Exploring Resilience". Never Apart. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "150 Indigenous Artists Receive $1.5 Million in Awards". Canadian Art. April 12, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Luger, Cannupa. "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans People BEAD PROJECT (EVERY ONE):". cannupahanska. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Edge, Sami (Feb 24, 2018). "Bead project aims to 'rehumanize' tragic statistic". The New Mexican. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
- ^ Beavis, Lon (Dec 2018). "Contemporary Native Art Biennial/La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone 2018". Border Crossings. 37 (148): 102–104 – via Proquest.