Celebrate Anishinaabe Art Day at The National Museum of the American Indian in New York on March 15, 2014 with your legislators and fellow tribal members from District 1 and District 2.
Due to high demand, an additional guided tour of the Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes exhibit will be offered at 3:30 p.m. You must contact Eva Marie Carney at 1-800-961-6988 or [email protected] or Roy Slavin at [email protected] to be added to the RSVP list.
Both tour groups will attend the afternoon talk, Afternoon Art Dialogue with Robert Houle, Gerald Vizenor, Gerald McMaster, and David Penney.
Additional events include:
Saturday March 15: Celebrate Anishinaabe Art!
11 a.m.: West Gallery: Artist Maria Hupfield gives a site-specific performance that will tour through “Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes.”
11 a.m.-5 p.m.: Artist demonstrations in the Rotunda, by Jamie Brown, baskets; Kelly Church, baskets; Dawn Jackson, painting; Cherish Parrish, baskets; Naomi Smith, bead and quillwork; Alice Olsen Williams, quilts.
1 p.m.: Tour (By RSVP only; FULL) Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes, with Museum Ambassador Asia Tail.
2 p.m., Pavilion: (Both tour groups meeting here) Afternoon Art Dialogue with Robert Houle, Gerald Vizenor, Gerald McMaster, and David Penney.
3:30 p.m.: Tour (By RSVP only) Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes, with Museum Ambassador Asia Tail.
5:30 p.m.: Pavilion Screening of Robert’s Paintings, a documentary about painter Robert Houle by Shelley Niro.
