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Proposed Contributions and Edits
The article on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith includes comprehensive sub-headings and extensive listings for Collections, Exhibitions (solo and group), and Major Works. Given extant work by contributors thus far, the article is rated B-class for the following: WikiProject Biography/Arts and Entertainment, WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, and WikiProject Women artists; additionally, it is High-importance for Indigenous peoples of North America. Yet, after preliminarily reading a few sources, I feel I could improve the article based on the following checklist:


 * 1) enhance her Biography (4/16, 17, 19 in Sandbox) and Artistic Style in substantive ways; improved Awards and Honors (4/19);
 * 2) add to omissions in Collections (added 4/5) and Major Works (added titles 4/16, 17 with citations directly to Wiki page);
 * 3) reorder Major Works (either by alphabetized title or chronology or artwork, which I will inquire about first on the Talk page for feedback);
 * 4) improve and add hyperlinks in article to other Wiki pages (in draft 4/16, 17, 19);
 * 5) copy edit (4/16, 17, 19)
 * 6) and, see about the possibility of including public domain images (doesn't seem possible at this point on 4/16 according to CC Search).

Sources to Review
This is the preliminary list of articles and exhibition reviews available online through our library, which I see are already listed in References. I have also added monographs available at the Kohler Art Library.

Ed. Abbot, Lawrence, I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists, University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1994.

Cohen, Mark Daniel. “Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: poet in paint, Art New England (April/May 2001): 44.

Farris, Phoebe. Contemporary Native American Women Artists: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, and Identity,” Feminist Studies 31, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 95-109.

Fowler, Cynthia. “Gender Representation in the Art of Jaune Quick To See Smith,” Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art, Vol. VI (2005): 79-95.

Hammond, Harmony. “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Georgia O’Keefe Museum,” Art in America [exh rev] (May 2012): 181-182.

Kastner, Carolyn. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013.

Nahwoosky, Fred (Comanche). “Native in the Windy City,” Native Peoples Magazine (2000): 52.

Rickard, Jolene. “Diversifying Sovereignty and the Reception of Indigenous Art,” Art Journal (Summer 2017): 81-84.

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See and Neal Ambrose-Smith. “The Practice of an Artist Who is Also an Arts Worker,” Art Education (March 2014): 43-52.

Tarlow, Lois. “A Plant Never Sits in Isolation: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith,” Art New England (December 2003/January 2004): 9.

Edits for Existing Article - Lead
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940), a self-described cultural arts worker, is one of the most acclaimed Indian artists in North America. A member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Tribes and enrolled with the Sqelix’u (Salish), she is a Native American contemporary artist, curator, art educator, art advocate, and political activist. Prolific and with a long career, her work draws from her Native worldview to comment on Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues that subverts and pushes new boundaries of American Modernism.

In the mid-1970s, Smith began to gain prominence as a painter and printmaker[2][3] and later advanced her style and technique with collage, drawing and mixed media. Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the permanent collections of prominent museums of modern art in America, including the Museum of Modern Art-New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art,[11] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum[12] and National Museum of Women in the Arts.[13]  Internationally, her work is also included in many private and public collections like The Museum of Mankind (Vienna), The Museum of Modern Art (Quito), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museum for World Cultures (Frankfurt) and the Museum for Ethnology (Berlin). Finally, her work has been collected by museums nearest to one of her greatest sources of inspiration, New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe)[14] and Albuquerque Museum.[15] She actively supports the Native arts community organizing exhibitions and project collaborations, and she has also participated in national commissions for public works.

She lives in Corrales, New Mexico, near the Rio Grande and is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery in New York City (since 2017).

Edits for Existing Article - Biography
Early Life

Jaune Quick–to–See Smith was born on January 15, 1940 in St. Ignatius Mission,[1] a small town on the Flathead Reservation on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation, Montana. Her first name, Jaune, means "yellow” in French, pointing to her French-Cree ancestry. Her Indian name, "Quick-to-See," was given to her by her Shoshone grandmother as a sign of her ability to grasp things readily.[1]

As a child, she had an itinerant life. Her father, a single parent, frequently moved between several reservations as a horse trader.[citation Tarlow] As a result, Jaune, lived in various places of  the Pacific Northwest and California.[4] Growing up in poverty,[5] Smith worked alongside migrant workers in a Seattle farming community from the time she was eight years old to fifteen when school was not in session. [citation Tarlow]

However, she knew very early on that she wanted to be an artist. She remembers drawing on the ground with sticks as a four-year old,[4] and in first grade, she recalls the first time she encountered tempera paints and crayons:"I loved the smell of them. It was a real awakening. I made a painting of children dancing around Mount Rainier. My teacher raved about it. Then with Valentine’s Day approaching, I painted red hearts all over the sky. … I see it as my first abstract painting.” [citation Tarlow]"Education

In 1960, she began her formal art education in Washington state, earning an Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton and taking classes at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her education, however, was interrupted because she had to support herself through various jobs as a waitress, Head Start teacher, factory worker, domestic, librarian, janitor, veterinary assistant, and secretary.[4] In 1976, she completed a Bachelors degree in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, and then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to start graduate school at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Her initial attraction to the University was its comprehensive Native American studies program, but after applying three times and being successively turned down, she decided to continue taking classes and making art. [citation Abbott, 216]. After an eventual exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery in New York City and its review in Art in America, she was finally accepted into the Department of Fine Arts at UNM [citation Abbott] where in 1980 she graduated with a Masters in Art.[6]  This liberal arts education formally introduced her to studies on the classical and contemporary arts, focusing on European and American traditions from ancient to  modern times, which served as her most influential point of access to the modern world outside of her reservation.[9]

From this background of her childhood and formal arts education, Smith has actively lived between two worlds—navigating, merging, and being inspired by Native and non-native cultures. She produces art that “follows the journey of [her] life as [she moves] through public art projects, collaborations, printmaking, traveling, curating, lecturing and tribal activities.” [Abbott, 226] This work serves as a mode of visual communication, which she creatively and consciously composes in layers to bridge gaps between these two worlds[5] and to educate about social, political and environmental issues existing deeper than the surface.

Edits for Existing Article - Awards & Honors
Widespread acclaim of Smith as an artist, educator, art advocate, and political activist is evident throughout her career. She has been recognized almost annually with honors, awards and fellowships for her art, art education, and art advocacy.

Smith has been awarded several honorary degrees. These include doctorates in art granted by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1992, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1998, Massachusetts College of Art in 2003, and UNM in 2008;[7] a professorship in art by Washington University in Saint Louis in 1989; and, a degree in Native American Studies by Salish Kootanai College, Pablo, Montana in 2015.[8]

Among lifetime achievement awards acknowledging dedication to her career, she has received the Women’s Caucus for Art Award in the Visual Arts in 1997, the College Art Association Committee on Women in the Arts Award in 2002, and the Woodson Foundation Award in 2014 as well as being inducted into the National Academy of Art in 2011. She has also been the recipient of the Women’s Vision Award for the National Women’s History Project in Women’s Art in 2008 and the Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design in 2011. Other notable awards throughout the years have been the Wallace Stegner Award for art of the American West in 1995, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 1996 to archive her work through the Painters Grant, the Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in its inaugural year of 1999, ArtTable award in 2011, and the Switzer Distinguished Artist Award in 2012.

Her adoptive state of New Mexico has also lauded her contribution to the arts and local community with praise and continuous recognition over the decades. This began early in her state residency (with her first career honor) when she was named one of  “80 Professional Women to Watch in the 1980s” by New Mexico Women’s Political Caucus for her local civic engagement in 1979. Subsequent esteemed credits of distinction are: SITE Santa Fe fellowship award in 1995; the New Mexico Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award and the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Allan Houser Memorial Award) both in 2005; the Living Artist of Distinction award by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in 2012;[26] the aforementioned doctorate from UNM in Albuquerque and the Woodson Foundation award in Santa Fe. Smith was also admitted to the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014.

Edits for Existing Article - Further Reading
Kastner, Carolyn. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith : An American Modernist. University of New Mexico Press : Albuquerque, 2013.