Exhibitions : Upcoming Exhibitions
MIGRATIONS: New Directions in Native American Art
Date(s): January 8, 2010 thru April 25, 2010
Organized by the University of New Mexico Art Museum and Tamarind Institute, includes works from six Native American artists who have completed residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon.
The artists are: Steven Deo (Creek), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa, White Earth Reservation) and Marie Watt (Seneca).
According to Marjorie Devon, Director of Tamarind Institute, each of the artists has experienced fluid boundaries of culture and their work embraces both the traditional and the modern. The title MIGRATIONS was chosen because of “its diverse implications of movement: between one time and another, between cultures, between places, between artistic mediums, between obscurity and limelight.”
The Museum will present two programs in conjunction with the exhibition. On Tuesday, February 16, Artist Marie Watt will give a lecture in Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, February 27, the Standing Eagle Drum Group will give a performance in the Great Hall beginning at 2 p.m.
A book by the same title will accompany the exhibition. It includes essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Gerald McMaster, Kathleen Stewart Howe and Jo Ortel. Marjorie Devon edited it.
The Migrations project, partially funded by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, was developed to identify and showcase emerging Native American artists who are working with a contemporary vocabulary. The Nebraska Arts Council and the Sheldon Art Association have provided additional support.
To view images of artworks included in the exhibition, please click: MIGRATIONS Slide Show
Location: Sheldon
