Expired Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass – In-Person

Date: 04-06-2024
Time: 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Tuition: $35 (includes exhibit admission)
Open to: All Genders 16+

Participants will engage in a docent-led tour of the exhibit, after which facilitator Lisa Rocklin will lead a circle for all to reflect on their experience with the art through intentional writing, listening, and sharing. New and experienced writers are welcome. Bring your favorite writing materials or use supplies provided. Registration required.

Payment due at time of registration. Limited to 20 participants.
Please note: We cannot process refunds for this program.
**Please arrive inside the Cincinnati Art Museum by 12:45pm so that you can be directed to the gathering location for the event.**

From the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Exhibit Description
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass celebrates a broad range of contemporary Native American and Indigenous Pacific-Rim artists working in glass. Featuring 120 pieces by 33 artists, the groundbreaking exhibition showcases works that reinterpret Traditional Stories and iconography, express contemporary issues affecting Indigenous Nations today, and meld Indigenous Traditions and Knowledge with the aesthetics and properties unique to the medium of glass. The exhibition emerges from the historical context of the Native Glass Art Movement which began in the 1970s when Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee)—a founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico—initiated a collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to create a glass blowing program at the IAIA. RISD sent early-career artist Dale Chihuly to the IAIA for one month to assist in establishing the program and the hot shop that would grow to inspire generations of Indigenous artists to explore the expressive potential of glass.

Clearly Indigenous features artists who illustrate the lasting relationships and collaborative nature inherent within global studio glass today. Among those included are Dan Friday (Lummi), “Haila” Ho Wan Ut Old Peter (Skokomish/Chehalis), Preston Singletary (Tlingit), Tony Jojola (Isleta Pueblo), Carol Lujan (Diné), Priscilla Cowie (Māori) and Djambawa Marawili (Aboriginal Australian).

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass was originated by The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The traveling exhibition was curated by Dr. Letitia Chambers, is toured by International Arts & Artists, and is accompanied by a catalog published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.

(Image: Adrift, 2015, Raven Skyriver (Tlingit, b. 1982), off pipe hand-sculpted glass, Courtesy of the artist, © Raven Skyriver, Photography by KP Studios)