Opening Conversations: In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now
Listen and learn with the artists, scholars, and knowledge-sharers behind In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now in three informal panel discussions. Moderated by Mia co-curators Casey Riley, Jill Ahlberg Yohe, and Jaida Grey Eagle, each conversation will explore ideas central to the art and artists involved in this pathbreaking exhibition at Mia.
Registration to this event includes a celebratory lunch in the Reception Hall from 12-1:45pm and grants free, early access to the In Our Hands exhibition between 11am-5pm on Saturday, October 21.
Always Present: 11am-12pm
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muscogee/Diné), Curatorial Council Member; Professor, and Director of the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, University of California, Davis
Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), Curatorial Council Member; Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sharon Day (Bois Forte), Community Council Member; Ojibwe leader and Native American activist, artist and writer
Moderated by Casey Riley, In Our Hands Co-Curator and Chair of Global Contemporary Art and Curator of Photography & New Media
Always Leaders: 1:45-2:45pm
Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora), Curatorial Council Member; Associate Professor, Cornell University
Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair (Lower Sioux Dakota Oyate), Community Council Member; Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University
Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk), Curatorial Council Member; Artist and associate professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Moderated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, In Our Hands Co-Curator and Associate Curator of Native American Art
A World of Relations: 2:45-3:45pm
Rosalie Favell (Metis), Curatorial Council Member; Artist
Rhéanne Chartrand (Métis), Curatorial Council Member; Curator, McMaster Museum of Art, University of Toronto
Maryam Marne Zafar (Lenape/African American/Jewish), Community Council Member; Graphic designer and visual strategist working in Minneapolis, MN
Moderated by Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota), In Our Hands Co-Curator and Photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer
In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now opens to the public on Sunday, October 22.