Indigenous Women: Border Matters
Exhibition Dates
October 19, 2021 – April 23, 2022
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Indigenous Women: Border Matters features a timely look at four Indigenous women artists who speak to issues on both sides of the U.S. border. Their practice is guided by contemporary issues of identity, self-determination, human rights, and the impacts on the human experience. The works explore and question how Indigenous women interact with the land we inhabit. The layering of symbolism, meaning, deconstructing concepts, including memory, cultural heritage, and politics, form the basis of the exhibition by artists Makaye Lewis (Tohono O’odham), Daisy Quezada Ureña (Mexican-American), M. Jenea Sanchez (Latinx), and Gabriela Muñoz (Latinx).
Makaye Lewis states, “As a Tohono O’odham citizen, my art stems from environmental influences and my culture. I come from a Tribal nation on the border, and we never experienced removal from our traditional lands. I am comforted knowing that I am where I am meant to be. Still, I find discomfort in knowing the many issues that arise when an imaginary political line leaves half my reservation in the United States and half in Mexico.”
On view at the UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
In the News
Santa Fe Reporter – Digital-ish Picks: Week of March 17, 2021
Native American Art Magazine – Border Matters | February/March 2021 Edition, Issue 31
Featured Image Details
Makaye Lewis b. 1996, (Tohono O’odham)
Remembering When They Laughed at My Dad’s Disability, 2019
Monotype and linocut
Photo by Mateo Perez (Picuris/Cochiti Pueblo)
Previously On View
The multi-generational history of Native American painting as a woman’s art in the Southwest can be traced through the work of three women.
January 11, 1987 – February 21, 1987
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women
The Native American Arts and Service Organization sponsored traveling exhibit, Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage-Contemporary Art by Native American Women.
Admission: $10.00
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