Amber-Dawn Bear Robe - from Siksika Nation (Blackfoot) - is a Curatorial Work-Study at The Walter Phillips Gallery. Bear Robe plans to pursue her Graduate degree upon completion of her curatorial training at the Banff Centre.

Originally, from Calgary, Alberta, Bear Robe studied as a visual Fibre artist at The Alberta College of Art & Design, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1996. Utilising contemporary beadwork, fibres and mixed media, she composed traditional Blackfoot imagery within contemporary context, exploring the relationship between the past and present of Aboriginal culture. She has exhibited works in various galleries in British Columbia and Alberta, notably an installation in a group exhibition, Revisit, Recall-New Meanings Echo the Past, at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. She has curated an exhibition at the Glenbow Museum called LOGOINDIAN featuring Kevin McKenzie. Recently, she curated an exhibition of works from the Walter Phillips Gallery’s collection at The Banff Centre; Ksakom Itapiks (Earth Beings) featured the work of Aboriginal artists Mary Ann Barkhouse, Carl Beam, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Patricia Deadman and Mike MacDonald

Amber-Dawn Bear Robe - Dusty Stars
acrylic paint 2002

Amber_BearRobe@banffcentre.ca

Dancing Butterfly
beaded, plastic wire endings
acrylic paint