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12 Facts About Gina Adams

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Gina Adams was born on 1965 and is an American interdisciplinary artist and activist.

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Gina Adams' parents were Philip F Adams, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Elaine Rose Theriault Adams who lived in Kittery, Maine.

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Gina Adams said that her paternal grandfather lived on the White Earth Indian Reservation and was removed at age eight to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which closed in 1918.

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Gina Adams has said that her great-great-grandfather was Ojibwe chief Wabanquot.

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Gina Adams earned a BFA from the Maine College of Art and an MFA from the University of Kansas.

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Gina Adams was a professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, in the visual arts faculty.

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Gina Adams joined Emily Carr University in August of 2019 as assistant professor, Foundation.

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Gina Adams resigned from Emily Carr on August 25,2022.

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Gina Adams is known for her antique quilt artwork; however, her work spans a wide range of styles, including mediums such as sculpture, ceramics, painting, printmaking, and drawing.

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Gina Adams's work revolved around broken treaties between the US and Native American tribes.

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Gina Adams's artwork has been published in The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and The Huffington Post.

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Gina Adams's work displayed vintage photographs of a girls' basketball team at Osage Boarding School; a school which attempted to assimilate Indigenous children by erasing their Native culture.