Visualizing Sovereignty |
November 14 - December 12, 2014
Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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This exhibition was a celebration of American Indian visual sovereignty as expressed by Tuscarora scholar Jolene Rickard - "Today, sovereignty is taking shape in visual thought as indigenous artists negotiate cultural space." Featuring contemporary visual representations by American Indian artists, poets, architects, linguists, and anthropologists, Visualizing Sovereignty depicted strategies to reassert American Indian sovereignty over gender, language, landscape, politics, and spirituality. This exhibition drew from various regions of native North America as far reaching as Canada's East to California, and the Great Lakes to Oklahoma. Works included paintings, prints, architectural drawings, photographs, installations, and text.
Exhibiting Artists included: Kimberly Blaeser, Chris Cornelius, Bunky Echo-Hawk, Phyllis Fast, Truman Lowe, Norval Morriseau, Daphne Odiji, Bernard Perley, Jolene Rickard, Dave Shananaquet, Wayne Yerxa, and Cecil Youngfox |
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