It’s Complicated – Art about Home Opening reception: Thursday October 14, 5 - 8 pmExhibition continues through January 12, 2011Talk by artist Nicholas Galanin: Wednesday October 13, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1 Is home a house, a place, a reservation, an ecological region, a spiritual landscape, a gathering of family and friends? Is home an idea, or a feeling, or a literal architectural space? Can we choose home? Is there an ancestral geographic home that is more home than any other place could be? What are the dynamics of the very literal legal and geographic boundaries to “home,” as on tribal lands, reservations, pueblos, and reserves? What are the experiences of moving from one home to another? How do we make a new place home? How do these experiences of “home” tie in with our daily lives and the divisions between home and work, family and friends? Curated by Evergreen Faculty member Lara M. Evans, Ph.D., this exhibition looks at how Native American and First Nations artists address these questions. Pieces of Home includes artworks by: Nicholas Galanin, Erin Genia, Maria Hupfield, Merritt Johnson, Jason Lujan, Kimowan Metchewais, Sarah Sense, Kade Twist, Jeffrey Veregge. Exhibition and programming made possible by generous support from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, and from these groups at Evergreen: Evergreen State College Foundation, President’s Diversity Fund, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

It’s Complicated – Art about Home

Opening reception: Thursday October 14, 5 - 8 pm
Exhibition continues through January 12, 2011
Talk by artist Nicholas Galanin: Wednesday October 13, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1

Is home a house, a place, a reservation, an ecological region, a spiritual landscape, a gathering of family and friends? Is home an idea, or a feeling, or a literal architectural space? Can we choose home? Is there an ancestral geographic home that is more home than any other place could be? What are the dynamics of the very literal legal and geographic boundaries to “home,” as on tribal lands, reservations, pueblos, and reserves? What are the experiences of moving from one home to another? How do we make a new place home? How do these experiences of “home” tie in with our daily lives and the divisions between home and work, family and friends?

Curated by Evergreen Faculty member Lara M. Evans, Ph.D., this exhibition looks at how Native American and First Nations artists address these questions. Pieces of Home includes artworks by: Nicholas Galanin, Erin Genia, Maria Hupfield, Merritt Johnson, Jason Lujan, Kimowan Metchewais, Sarah Sense, Kade Twist, Jeffrey Veregge.

Exhibition and programming made possible by generous support from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, and from these groups at Evergreen: Evergreen State College Foundation, President’s Diversity Fund, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

Tags: Nicholas Galanin, Erin Genia, Maria Hupfield, Merritt Johnson, Jason Lujan, Kimowan Metchewais, Sarah Sense, Kade Twist, Jeffrey Veregge.