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Thursday, October 17, 7:30pm at the Morgan Concert Hall

In association with INTERCHANGE

Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation presents a sweeping survey of over thirty-five objects spanning fifteen years. The exhibition includes prints, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and video. The inclusion of contemporary adornment in fashion is influenced by intertribal powwows as well as the dance clubs where Gibson found safe spaces as a teenager. The exhibition鈥檚 centerpiece is an expansive and immersive work titled To Name An Other鈥攆ifty-one printed elk hide drums and fifty wearable garments, which was originally commissioned as a performance by the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery in 2019. Born in Colorado in 1972, Jeffrey Gibson is of Cherokee heritage and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. His vibrant work, which is represented in more than twenty permanent collections across the United States, is a call for Indigenous empowerment as well as queer visibility. Gibson has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art, London. Gibson is representing the United States at the Venice Biennale 2024鈥攖he first indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the American Pavilion. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University and curated by Ryan Hardesty, Executive Director. 

_{Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition and related education and outreach programs has been made possible by a grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.}  

Friday, November 15, 1:30pm at the ZMA

The Artistic Practice of Wearable Art: Indigenous dress, Collaboration, and Community 

Inspired by her late Setsune虂鈥檚 (grandmother) incredible garment making, hide-tanning and adornment, Catherine Blackburn鈥檚 work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine. Join us for an artist talk in which she reflects on her wearable art practice and its intersection between Indigenous dress, collaboration, and community.   
  
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan and is a member of the English River First Nation (Denes懦艂in茅). She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweler, whose common themes address Canada's colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound by the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and representation. Her work has been included in renowned national and international exhibitions including Radical Stitch, 脌badakone, Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show, and Toronto Indigenous Fashion Week. She has received numerous awards including the Sobey Art Award longlist (2019/2023), a Forge Residency Fellowship (2022), and an Eiteljorg Fellowship (2021).