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Clairmont, Corwin |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Born: 1946, St. Ignatius, Montana, United States |
Nationality |
North America / United States / Montana / St. Ignatius / Salish / Kooteni |
Biography |
Corwin "Corky" Clairmont is a printmaker and conceptual and installation artist from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Clairmont is best known for high concept, politically-charged works. Clairmont received his BFA from Montana State University and MFA from California State University, Los Angeles, and taught in the printmaking program at the Otis School in southern California before returning to Montana in 1984 to establish the arts department at the Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college on his home reservation. Clairmont considers himself not only a printmaker but an installation and action artist and views exhibitions as weapons for change. His work challenges the cultural and ecological effects of European settlement upon the land inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. |
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Banana Polar Bear, Crow's Shadow |
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