Annette de Stecher Department of Art and Art History Annette.destecher@colorado.edu CURRICULUM VITAE Education PhD 2013 Carleton University Dissertation: Engaged Histories: Wendat Women s Souvenir Arts of Cultural Preservation and Entrepreneurial Invention Advisor: Dr. Ruth Phillips MA 2006 Carleton University BA 1980 McGill University (Distinction) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015-Present Assistant Professor, Indigenous Art, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. 2014, Winter Instructor of Record, Indigenous Representation in Contemporary Canada, School for Canadian Studies, Carleton University 2012 Curator of Inuit Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa 2012, Winter Teaching Assistant, Canadian Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art, School for Studies in Art and Culture Carleton University 2011, Fall Instructor of Record, What Makes a Great Exhibition of Aboriginal Art? School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University 2010, Fall Teaching Assistant, Art and Society: Prehistory to the Renaissance, School for Studies in Art and Culture Carleton University 2008, 2009 Teaching Assistant, History and Theory of Architecture, Fall School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University 2009, Winter Teaching Assistant, Art of the First Peoples, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University 2007/2008 Research Assistant, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, Carleton University
2006, Winter Teaching Assistant, Art and Society: Renaissance to the Present, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University 2005, Fall Teaching Assistant, Art and Society: Prehistory to the Renaissance, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS 2017 Arts and Science Fund for Excellence Grant, 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, On Native Grounds, Washington, D.C. 2016 Graduate Committee for Arts and Humanities Research Grant 2015 Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant, 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laval University, Québec Social Science and Humanities Research Council 2010-2011 Research Fellowship, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Québec 2010 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, Social Science and Humanities Research Council 2007-2010 Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2006-2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2005-2006 Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master s Social Science and Humanities Research Council 2005-2011 Carleton University Scholarship PUBLICATIONS Books Women s Arts of the Wendat First Nation, work in progress. Contract forthcoming, McGill-Queen s University Press. Manuscript completion date: December 2018 Chiefly Gifts: the Power of Trade Silver, 1750-1820, work in progress Annette de Stecher 2
Articles, Peer Reviewed Journals The Art of Community in Wendake Quebec, RACAR 42 (2017) 2:54-71. Of Chiefs and Kings, Ethnologies 37.2 (2017) 103-130. «Les arts wendats au service de la diplomatie et de la traite, Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 44.2-3 (2014) 65-77. Indigenous Curatorial Practice as Cultural Continuity: Nineteenth-Century Traditions of Performance and Display and Twenty-First Century Museum Exhibitions, Journal of Curatorial Studies 3.1 (2014) 50-73. Huron-Wendat Historical Visual Arts Tradition: Symbol of Cultural Continuity and Autonomy in the Past, Source of Inspiration in the Present, St. Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies 13 (2009) 87-94. GRASAC Fieldtrip 2007: British Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum Collections of Great Lakes Nations Material Culture, Joint authors, de Stecher, Annette and Stacey Loyer. Journal of Museum Ethnography 22 (December 2009) 145-154. Chapters, Peer Reviewed Books Negotiating Change: Huron-Wendat Diplomatic Traditions in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, in Beyond Huronia, Native American Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016, 182-208. Souvenir Art, Collectable Craft, Cultural Heritage: The Wendat of Wendake Quebec, in Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19 th -20 th Century. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, 2014, 37-57. Huron-Wendat Visual Culture: Source of Economic Autonomy and Continuity of Traditional Culture, Canada Exposed/Le Canada à découvert Canadian Studies/Études canadiennes 20, International Council for Canadian Studies. New York; Oxford: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009, 131-147. Catalogues 2018 Wendat Embroidered Moccasins, Seneca Embroidered Pouch. Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson- Atkins Museum, forthcoming 2011 Mi kmaq Spruce Box in Quebec and Canadian Art. Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 2011, 38 Annette de Stecher 3
Book Reviews Bourque, Bruce. J. and Laureen A. Labar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume. Augusta; Montreal; Kingston: Maine State Museum. McGill-Queen s University Press, 2009. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 30.1 (2010) 165-166. Thompson, Judy. Women s Work, Women s Art: Nineteenth Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization; Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2013. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 34.1 (2014) 226-229. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2017 Cloth Cultures: Future Legacies of Dorothy K. Burnham, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario Paper: Dorothy Burnham: Decolonizing Methodologies 2016 University Arts Association of Canada Conference, Montreal, Quebec Paper: Narrative Traditions and Material Culture: the Voice of Indigenous Women Artists 2016 Dressing Global Bodies, University of Alberta, Edmonton Paper: Dress and Investiture: Honor and Occasion 2015 University Arts Association of Canada Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia Paper: The Art of Community in Wendake Quebec 2015 Native American Art Studies Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico Paper: Mobility in the Miniature: Intercultural Engagement and Innovation in Indigenous Souvenir Arts 2015 Native North American Art Conference, Santa Fe New Mexico Panel Chair: Made for Multivalence: The vase floral arrangement motif in Great Lakes Indigenous art 2015 Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference 2015, The Artist Herself. Queen s University, Kingston Paper: Representation and Community: the Ceremonial Headdress of Caroline Gros-Louis 2014 Great Lakes Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture Conference, Brantford, Ontario Paper: Many Hands, Beautiful Work: Identifying Individual Styles in Huron-Wendat Work 2013 Native North American Art Conference, Denver, Colorado Panel Organizer: Questioning Authority: Bringing Community Knowledge to the Museum 2012 Universities Art Association of Canada, Montreal, Quebec Paper : Home and Territory: Marguerite Vincent La8inonke, Huron-Wendat Artist, Teacher, and Entrepreneur Annette de Stecher 4
2012 Congrès d études wendat et wyandot, Wendake, Québec Paper : L artisanat wendat: la continuité de la vision esthétique et l identité autochtone, dans un paysage politique en transformation 2012 Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Paper: Wendat Women s Arts: Values of Individuality and Community 2011 Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Ottawa, Ontario Paper: A Huron-Wendat Tapestry : The drama of identity 2011 Material Culture, Craft and Community Conference, Material Culture Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Graduate Plenary Session. Paper: Souvenir Arts, Collectable Crafts, Cultural Heritage: The Huron-Wendat of Wendake, Quebec 2009 Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Norman, Oklahoma Paper: Huron-Wendat Souvenir Arts: Continuity of Aesthetic Vision and Worldview in a Changing Political Landscape 2008 University Arts Association of Canada Conference, Toronto, Ontario Paper: Huron-Wendat Historical Visual Arts Tradition: Symbol of Cultural Continuity and Autonomy in the Past, Source of Inspiration in the Present 2007 Carleton University Art Gallery Symposium Panel Discussant: New Understandings, New Collaborations: Visual Experience and Beyond in the Art Gallery 2007 Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University, Student Conference Conference Organizer: Interface 2007: Reconciliations. GUEST LECTURES 2017 Presentation, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal Title of Paper: Curriculum Development: Indigenous Art Histories 2017 Lecture, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Title of Paper: The Customs of Our Ancestors: The Wendat Art of Moose Hair Embroidery 2014 Lecture, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina Title of Paper: Engaged Histories: Indigenous Traditions of Representation 2013 Lecture, School for Community and Public Policy, Concordia University Title of Paper: Aboriginal Visual Arts and the Museum, or, Whose Story Is It? 2013 Lecture, Symposium: Art, Craft, None-of-the-Above. Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival, Ottawa Title of Paper: Beyond Craft and Art Annette de Stecher 5
2013 Lecture, West End Learning Group Lecture Series, Ottawa. Title of Paper: A Rich Heritage: the Arts of Canada s First Peoples 2012 Lecture, University of Ottawa Title of Paper: Objects of Luxury and Taste: Wendat Souvenirs Arts in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 2012 Lecture, Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Gatineau, Quebec Title of Paper: Wendat Arts: Three Moosehair Embroidered Tapestries, Lecture Series, 2011 Lecture, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University Title of Paper: Art of this Land: A Critical Eye 2011 Lecture, Department of Architecture, Carleton University Title of Paper: A House that is more than a House: the Home of Marguerite Vincent La8inonkie PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2017-present 2016-present Collections Committee, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder World Art Committee, 2015- present Diversity Committee, 2016 Re-Appointment Committee, 2016 Adjudicator, Insight Grant Merit Review Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2016 Peer Review, Journal of Canadian Art History 2015, 2016 Merit Review Committee, 2015 Hiring Search Committee, 2013 Peer Review, Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 2013-2015 Board of Directors, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Universities Art Association of Canada Native American Art Studies Association College Art Association Annette de Stecher 6
LANGUAGES READ/SPOKEN English first language French read, written Annette de Stecher 7