Dr. Alfred Young Man, Professor and head of the Department of Indian Fine Arts. Dr. Young Man taught for thirty years at the University of Lethbridge and was Chair of the Native American Studies Department there for six years. He has been teaching at First Nations University since 2007, attracted by the opportunity to effect a real change in First Nations art education. Dr. Young Man served as Chair and Board member of the nationally known Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry which is instrumental in arguing for the inclusion of First Nations art at the National Gallery of Canada; the relatively recent retrospectives of Norval Morrisseau and Daphne Odjig were among SCANA’s many objectives and successes. Dr. Young Man is custodian of First Nations University’s First Nations Art collection of over 1500 art objects and overseas the Native Heritage Foundation Collection (188 pieces) which contains many art objects by artists such as Allen Sapp, Bob Boyer, Joane Cardinal Schubert, Carl Beam, Gerald Tailfeathers and other prominent Canadian First Nations artists nationally and locally in Saskatchewan. Dr. Young Man has written the first ever art book on First Nations art written entirely from the Native perspective, to be published in April 2010 by the Aboriginal Issues Press at the University of Manitoba.
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