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`Aboriginal paintings : the abstraction and the sacred` at Australian Art Gallery – AMA

“Aboriginal paintings : the abstraction and the sacred” at Australian Art Gallery

Paris, 4 September 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

On the occasion of the Parcours des Mondes 2012, Stéphane Jacob, with the backing of Galerie SEINE 51, will display major works by Aboriginal Australian artists, exclusively from the Australian Central desert and from Arnhem, in the north of the country.

This new exhibition will echo the vitality of Aboriginal paintings displayed in the Quai Branly Museum and will recall the collections of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.