Betty LaDuke
{{short description|American artist, writer (born 1933)}}
Betty LaDuke (née Bernstein; born 1933) is an American artist and writer from Oregon.{{cite web |last=Russell |first=Kristi L. |date=24 June 2022 |title=Betty LaDuke (1933-) |url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/laduke_betty_1933_/#.WM1qvLSJnlI |accessdate=18 March 2017 |website=The Oregon Encyclopedia |publisher=}} She is the mother of activist Winona LaDuke.
Early life
LaDuke was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1933. Her family spoke Yiddish.{{cite web|url=https://beltmag.com/winona-laduke-line-3-pipeline-future/ |title=Winona LaDuke’s Last Battle |publisher=Belt Magazine |accessdate=2024-08-05}} She attended the High School of Music and Art in New York starting at age sixteen, and later studied at Denver University, the Cleveland Institute of Art. In the fifties she received a scholarship which allowed her to study art at Mexico's Instituto Allende from 1953 through 1956.{{cite web|accessdate=19 March 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2023-03-25|title=THE ARTIST AS VISIONARY: BETTY LADUKE'S AFRICAN SAFARIS OF PEACE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325161717/http://tetworld.tripod.com/bd.html|last1=Orenstein|first1=Gloria F.|publisher=Tetworld|url=http://tetworld.tripod.com/bd.html}} During her time in Mexico she lived with the Indigenous Otomi, whose concern with the preservation of their heritage profoundly influenced LaDuke's work.
Works
- Play Free (1968)
- India: The Hindu Marriage, (1972)
- Tuk Tuk, Samosir Island, Sumatra (1974)
- Ubud, Bali, (1974)
- Coming of Age Dance, Sumatra, (1974)
- Mexico, (1978)
- Mexico, Easter, (1978)
- Mexico, Easter Celebration, (1978)
- Borneo: Rite of Passage, (1980)
- Nicaragua, (1982)
- Haitian Art: Five Women Painters, (1984) Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art and Literature{{Cite journal |last=La Duke |first=Betty |date=1984 |title=Haitian Art: Five Women Painters |url=https://fscj.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fscj%3A1072#page/n7/mode/2up |journal=Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Art and Literature |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=6–21}}
- Behind the Walls Birds Sing, (1986)
- LaDuke, B. (1991). Africa Through the eyes of women artists. New Jersey: Africa World Press. 148 pages. ISBN 0-86543-198-1
- Eritrea/Ethiopia: Where Have All the Fathers Gone (1998)
- Africa: women's art, women's lives (1998)
Collections and exhibits
References
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External links
- {{Official website| http://www.bettyladuke.com}}
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