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Why traumatic indigenous art receives more attention than celebratory work

My installation about boarding school trauma gets featured everywhere but my joyful pieces about contemporary indigenous life get ignored

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What we've seen

The art world's fixation on indigenous suffering overshadows expressions of contemporary indigenous joy and complexity.

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“Where Are You with Indigenous creative traditions?”

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