Center for Native Futures

Stop by this Sunday!

Visit us at Center for Native Futures for one or all of our upcoming FREE programs in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Conversation on Race: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 11am-4pm: Artist-in-Residence Open Studio with Camille Billie 11:30am and 1:30pm: Curator Led Walk-through of Gagizhibaajiwan with Lois Taylor Biggs. Please sign up for one of the time slots here: https://lnkd.in/gnChYXjr SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 1-3pm: Artist Talk with sibling artists Monica Rickert-Bolter and Joel Rickert. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gmZVydtG THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 5:30-8:30pm: Film Screening and Discussion "Imagining the Indian: A Fight Against Native Mascoting" with Ben West, April Holder, and Angela Walden. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gc7SkSyP https://lnkd.in/gH3GCaMC

Shout-out to our Artist-in-Residence Camille Billie!

Congratulations to these amazing community-driven art spaces! Chi Megwetch to all these fabulous supporters and funders!

GAGIZHIBAAJIWAN JUNE 15 — DECEMBER 14, 2024 OPENING JUNE 15 VIP NATIVE COMMUNITY HOUR 4-5PM OPEN TO PUBLIC 5-7PM Misshepezhieu, the Underwater Panther, lives below the water. Animikii, the Thunderbird, lives in the sky. These two beings live in constant conflict and constant relation, meeting along shorelines and whirling up storms. In Anishinaabe art, they are often represented together, suggesting a way to hold duality’s tension. How do we reconcile what cannot be reconciled? In Anishinaabemowin, gagizhibaajiwan (guh-gih-zhi-bah-jih-wun) is a continuous swirling motion of water portending the Underwater Panther’s emergence from under the surface. The churn mediates earth, water, and sky, implying fluid movement through layers of the world spanned by Misshepezhieu and Animikii. "Gagizhibaajiwan" features four Anishinaabe artists – Marcella Ernest (Gunflint Lake Ojibwe/Bad River Band of Lake Superior), Michael Belmore (Anishinaabe from Lac Seul First Nation), Renee Wasson Dillard (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians), and Zoey Wood-Salomon (Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) – who move through these layers in story and art, evoking Anishinaabe teachings on duality, ambiguity, and balance. In the depths of sky and swirling water, there is room for paradox. "Gagizhibaajiwan" is curated by Lois Taylor Biggs (Cherokee Nation/White Earth Ojibwe) with curatorial mentorship from Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee Nation/Muscogee). The exhibition is generously supported by the Design Museum of Chicago, the Luce Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and Art Design Chicago. Graphic design @lacobjindgren

There's still time to see the "Native Futures" exhibition before it closes. Visit us this Saturday!

PLEASE NOTE: We are at EXPO all this week, so?the gallery will be closed from April 10th to 12th. Visit us at Booth?#182!

Chi Megwetch for the thoughtful article, Erica Thompson and Chicago Sun-Times! https://lnkd.in/eA-yMTnE

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