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Andrea Carlson has described her own art as commenting on “entangled cultural narratives and institutional authority … Indigenous Futurism [add wiki-link] and assimilation metaphors in film.”

Andrea Carlson’s work focuses on how American narratives of Indigenous peoples are depicted as stereotypes. She stated that these fictional ideas of who they should be, makes it so, “[a]ny changes to that code render them ‘unauthentic’ and cultures are institutionally killed.”

For example, in her print Exit (2019, screenprint) [add picture] Carlson has stated that the piece comments on a “deep-seated fear of losing cultural practices, languages and art forms,” as represented by the exit sign. Many of the symbols in the print also reference indigenous creations that have been wrongfully connected to people who did not originate from them. [3]

Carlson was selected by a team of art-in-education researchers as an example of contemporary Ojibwe art. They noted that art like Carlson’s  “better contextualize Ojibwe people’s culturally acquired behaviors…”