Nekt wikuhpon ehpit : Once there lived a woman: The Painting, Poetry and Politics of Shirley Bear/Il A (c)tait une fois une femme : la peinture, la poA (c)sie et la politique de Shirley Bear

No present without the past. No equality without feminism.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have shaped Shirley Bear's visual art, poetry, and political activism and presents the integral relationship amongst these important activities in her life.Countering the invisible silent status ascribed to Indigenous women by patriarchal history and convention, Bear's primary focus has been the recovery of the feminine role in the ancestral life of First Nations culture. Featuring more than 30 reproductions of her work with essays by Terry Graff, Susan Crean, and Carol Taylor, Nekt wikuhpon ehpit both depicts and examines the essential feminine imagery of Bear's work in their symbolic, archetypal, or representative forms.Shirley Bear's work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies, including Kelusultiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic CanadaandThe Colour of Resistance. She received the New Brunswick Excellence in the Arts Award in 2002.Pas de prA (c)sent sans le passA (c). Pas d'A (c)galitA (c) sans fA (c)minisme.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit rassemble les sources, l'inspiration et les circonstances personnelles qui ont faAonnA (c) l'art visuel, la poA (c)sie et l'activisme politique de Shirley Bear et les prA (c)sente la relation intA (c)grale entre ces activitA (c)s importantes dans sa vie.Contre le statut de silence invisible attribuA (c) aux femmes autochtones par l'histoire et les conventions patriarcales, Bear se concentre principalement sur le rA (c)tablissement du rA'le fA (c)minin dans la vie ancestrale de la culture des PremiAres Nations. Avec plus de 30 reproductions de son travail avec des essais de Terry Graff, Susan Crean et Carol Taylor, Nekt wikuhpon ehpit dA (c)peint l'imagerie fA (c)minine essentielle du travail de Bear sous leurs formes symboliques, archA (c)typales ou reprA (c)sentatives.Le travail de Shirley Bear a A (c)tA (c) prA (c)sentA (c) dans des expositions au Canada, aux Atats-Unis et en Europe. Ses A (c)crits ont A (c)tA (c) prA (c)sentA (c)s dans plusieurs anthologies, notamment Kelusultiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic Canada et The Color of Resistance. Elle a reAu le Prix d'excellence dans les arts du Nouveau-Brunswick en 2002.