Jane Ash Poitras CM RCA (born October 11, 1951) is a Cree painter and printmaker from Canada.
This approach to creating images was developed out of Dada by the American Abstract Expressionists and their associates; Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly.
[1] Poitras extends the meaning of her paintings by applying objects holding symbolic significance to the surface of the compositions.
Potato Peeling 101 to Ethnobotany 101 (2004), portrays a narrative of the experience of preserving aboriginal cultural knowledge through the years of forced assimilation.
[7] She is a long-standing sessional instructor with the University of Alberta and travels as a guest lecturer across North America.