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Kodiak, Alaska: Les Masques de la Collection Alphonse Pinart du Château‐Musée de Boulogne‐sur‐Mer. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. November 5, 2002‐January 20, 2003Kodiak, Alaska: Les Masques de la Collection Alphonse Pinart. Emmanuel Désveaux. ed. Paris: Adam Biro and Musée du Quai Branly, 2002. 256 pp. 97 color and 140 black‐and‐white illustrations.Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska. October 6, 2002–February 28, 2003Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. Aron L. Crowell. Amy F. Steffian. and Gordon L. Pullar. eds. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2001. 265 pp. 223 color and black‐and‐white illustrations.

Canadian artist Allyson Mitchell sets her intentions for her craft-based work in her Deep Lez I Statement, an artist's statement that suggests that the radical lesbian feminisms of the 1970s have much to offer later feminists, regardless of gender, while also stating that "lesbian" is an identity that can be reclaimed as position of political and personal strength and agency. Deep Lez is also Mitchell's aesthetic language and is deeply informed by visual markers of the 1970s as it recalls the colors, crafts, and feminisms of that period. As an I Statement and as an aesthetic, Deep Lez is past and future looking as it focuses on the past to imagine better queer worlds in the future. In this thesis, Mitchell's work is examined as not only symbolic of the utopic longings of the 1970s feminist political movements and how they can inform better futures, but also how her work expresses agency available for fat and lesbian feminisms in the present. Her works, Fat Craft, Ladies Sasquatch, and Killjoy's Kastle are looked at through a present lens and how these works offer, both intentionally and accidentally, ways to gain political and personal power in the present for fat and lesbian bodies and identities. In this, the notion of hope—a key component of the survival strategies Mitchell's work offers—is developed and examines how that fragile and fumbling state in a difficult present can move Deep Lez from being a longing oscillating between the past and the future to being fully alive and active right now.