Shattering Images: The Film Baskets of Gail Tremblay

Artist Monograph
Contributing Authors: Gail Tremblay, Cathy Denning, Anya Montiel, 2021

Softcover monograph, 50 pages, 28 full-color images

Designer: Nancy Johnson

Editor: Cathy Denning

Published by Froelick Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at Froelick Gallery, December 1, 2021 - January 29, 2022

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

   Charles Froelick

 

ESSAY

Truth and Consequences: The Teachings in the Basketry of Gail Tremblay

   Anya Montiel, PhD

SELECTED POETRY

   Gail Tremblay

Gathering Sweet Grass

Meditation on the Dalles Dam

On Movement (Allegro)

The Things We Do For Art

 

INTERVIEW

A Conversation with Gaii Tremblay

   Cathy Denning

 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE 

 

The publication accompanies the exhibition Shattering Images on view at Froelick Gallery from December 1, 2021 - January 29, 2022. 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

GAIL TREMBLAY (1945 - 2023) resided in Olympia, Washington and contributed to the arts and cultural life of the Pacific Northwest and beyond for decades through her interdisciplinary artwork, critical writing, and poetry. She retired from teaching at The Evergreen State College in 2016, where, starting in 1980, she mentored hundreds of students in visual art, creative writing, American and women's studies. She was a founding member of The Evergreen State College Longhouse and remained active on their advisory board until her passing. Tremblay was featured in numerous anthologies and exhibitions including canonical group shows like The Submuloc Show/Columbus Wohs: A Visual Commentary on the Columbus Quincentennial, (1992-1994). Her artwork is included in many notable public collections, such as the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC;  and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.

 

CATHY DENNING is a contemporary art historian.

 

ANYA MONTIEL, PhD is a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. She also served as assistant professor of art history at the University of Arizona, teaching courses in Native American art, global arts and crafts, Indigenous feminisms, and museum studies. Anya received her doctorate and master’s degrees in American Studies from Yale University and earned bachelor’s degrees in Native American Studies and anthropology from the University of California at Davis. She has written for American Indian, Art in America, First American Art Magazine, Journal of Modern Craft, and the Oxford Handbook of American Indian History as well as exhibition essays for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Heard Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 

ITEM SPECIFICATIONS:

Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in

ISBN ‏ : ‎ 978-0-9754037-4-7

Retail: $35