Published: Nov. 17, 2016

Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding

BMoCA curator Mardee Goff presents Melanie Yazzie at show reception

BMoCA curator Mardee Goff introduces Melanie Yazzie at show reception.

 Don't miss Boulder's Museum of Contemporary Art is featuring this two week exhibtion of contemporary Native American & Indigenous prints organized by Navajo artist and CNAIS Core faculty, Melanie Yazzie.

Yazzie invited eleven other Indigenous artists to respond to their idea of "home" through a print exchange. Together the works gathered in the exhibtion illumniate the diversity of personal definitions of "home" and demonstrate a Native relationship to home and homeland enmeshed in a history of defense, sacrifice, resiliency, and redefinition. The works are accompanied by an essay written by non-native Indigenous Studies Scholar, Kevin Slivka. Also featured were CNAIS faculty C. Maxx Stevens, along with:

Norman Akers, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Ivy Hali'imaile, Corwin Clairmont, Joe Feddersen, Alexander Swiftwater McCarty, Tony Ortega, Sue Pearson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Glory Tachaenie-Campoy

The exhibition is part of the BMoCA's Present Box from Nov 8 - 20 at 1750 13th St. in Boulder.

It then travels to the Sojourner Truth Library at the State University of New York (SUNY) where it will be on display from Dec. 4 - Jan. 22. 

BMoCA Present Box wall with prints