Jaune Quick-to-See Smith - Wilding

Artist, activist, educator and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025) was an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Throughout a fifty-year career she made art; curated exhibitions; mentored fellow artists; and delivered workshops in schools and on reservations all of which worked together to bear witness to the past, present and future of Native Americans from a Native American perspective. Her paintings, prints, collages, sculptures and assemblages embody a deeply felt hope for equality and mutual respect for land, nature and humans. This book includes paintings from across Smith's career, an introduction from curator Fiona Bradley, and three new essays. Academic, gallerist and curator Suzanne Frick engages with the breadth of Smith's practice. Scholar, curator, artist, and enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Lara Evans discusses the work in the context of Native American Sovereignty. Independent curator and art historian Lowery Stokes Sims writes about Smith's Tierra Madre paintings, her last great series. Two previously unpublished pieces of writing - one by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the other by her son and collaborator, Neal Ambrose-Smith, begin and end the book.