Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023

This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping the future. Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan) is a printmaker, glass artist, and basket maker who creates geometric patterns sourced from everyday life. Multimedia artist Erica Lord (Athabascan/Ipiat) crafts beaded burden straps and sled dog blankets with abstracted representations of diseases that disproportionately affect Native and other marginalized communities. Geo Neptune (Passamaquoddy) is a master basket maker, activist, and educator who uses colorful narrative to emphasize the honor and burden of keeping tradition alive. Sisters Lily Hope and Ursala Hudson (Tlingit) weave labor-intensive textiles that convey Tlingit values of reciprocity and balance, maintaining cultural integrity while experimenting with new forms and materials. Textile artist Maggie Thompson (Fond du Luc Ojibwe) creates large-scale works that explore the intersections of grief and trauma with honor, beauty, and healing.

Exhibition dates: Renwick Gallery, May 26, 2023 — March 31, 2024

Author: Lara M. Evans, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Anya Montiel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 05/30/2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 1.7lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780937311882
Language: English