Serigraph 27 x 21

Jackson Beardy, an Ojibway artist, was a leading Native figure in the late 1960s and 1970s, advocating both politically and artistically for the rights of the peoples of the First Nations in Canada. As a founding member of the New Woodland School and as a community representative on various cultural and political organizations, Beardy forged a path and created a legacy of activism for those who followed. Beardy’s influence on the revitalization of Woodland culture and the policies and methods of Canadian institutions handling and interpreting art treasures of First Nations has been an important contribution to the development and history of the art of the First Nations.