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Making Our Way Every Day. Transformation.

Exhibition Dates

July 29, 2020 -

Location Details
Mural is on the staircase and wall on Lower Level.

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Art in public spaces, including murals, can serve as a vehicle for dialogue about history, describe relationships, and depict the resilience of the community in the hope to create equity, agency, and healing. Created between 2020-2023, Naranjo Morse explains:

“This mural made of both acrylic and clay depicts compassionate Beings traveling and arriving at a point of enormous transformation which is expressed by brilliant light and form. Where they come from is remembered by what they carry. This project, began in the depth of Covid, desperate global migrations, the killing of Brianna Taylor and George Floyd and mass shootings. It also witnessed the world’s compassion, and the strength and powerful beauty of the natural world when we put less pressure on it. Today the mural’s continuity expresses transformation through light filled illustration and the Beings rejuvenated as they move forward into a world full of possibility.I am moved with appreciation for the Wheelwright, a space architecturally designed with the sentiment of home and place within a community that holds history, vision, and space to experience it.”

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Eliza Naranjo Morse, b.1980 (Kha’p’o Owingeh, Santa Clara Pueblo) Making Our Way Every Day. Transformation. 2020-2023, Acrylic paint and clay.

About the Artist

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Eliza Naranjo Morse spends some of her time as a two-dimensional artist. Her work explores aspects of the human experience through articulating anthropomorphic characters, collected objects, and landscapes. These subjects become vehicles for processing current events, personal experiences, and spiritual seeking. Eliza is informed by the land-based, creative and cultural information of her elders, and the current world she explores and learns about. Her cartoon aesthetic is refined by technical skills developed through formal training and a continuing relationship to the material. Eliza was born in 1980 in New Mexico and is the articulation of two different cultural backgrounds; a Tewa mother and an Anglo father from Connecticut. Coming from the families of Sicneros, Sartori, Naranjo, and Morse, she is connected through cellular memory to parts of the world she is unfamiliar with and those places and understanding become woven into her experience of being centered in the place of Northern New Mexico. Eliza has shown her work internationally and nationally including Cumbre de el Tajin (Veracruz, Mexico), Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, New York), SITE Santa Fe (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Axle Contemporary (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), Berlin Gallery (Phoenix, Arizona), School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, New Mexico), and the Institute of American Indian Arts, Museum of Contemporary Native Art (Santa Fe, NM.) She is the proud art teacher to many brilliant young Artists at the Kha’p’o Community School in Santa Clara Pueblo.

Born
1980, NM