Public Events --
Panel/Discussion "Footprints Through Time: Personal Histories vs Shared Culture"
- Location: ISM Chicago Gallery, Chicago
- Date: Saturday, May 30, 2015, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Special Event and Time
Free and open to the public
Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
Saturday, May 30th, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
(Enter through the LaSalle Street door only)
COMMON CULTURAL THREADS
Panelists:
Frances L. Hagemann, Ojibwe/Metis, Historian, Photographer
Frances will discuss how visual images were critical to passing down tribal history combined with storytelling since there was no written language.
James Mesple, Chicago artist, focuses on personal histories vs the status quo. How well do people know their own histories and their cultural histories?
Joyce Owens, artist, Associate Professor and curator at Chicago State University, will discuss the importance of inclusiveness. Joyce creates portraits and constructions to place in context the African-American presence within the larger world, in hopes of putting race in its place, as Anthropology rather than Sociology.
Norma Robertson, Dakota, artist, and Robert Wapahi, Dakota/Santee, artist, will discuss the history and changes to tribal names as European explorers came into their area.
Marjorie Woodruff, Chicago artist, educator, will discuss her "Ghost Tree Project" and environmental concerns affecting histories of old growth forests.
Footprints Through Time: Artists Inspired by History Artists include:
Rene Arceo, (art)n, David Bower, Catherine Cajandig, Sharon Hoogstraten, Nora Lloyd, Joyce Owens, Chris Pappan, Debra Yepa-Pappan, Christine Redcloud, Norma Robertson, Robert Wapahi, Ian Weaver, Marjorie Woodruff and Joe Yazzie. Many of the artists will be present to discuss their work.
Contact information:
Jane Stevens. Exhibition Curator
Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
100 W. Randolph,
Suite 2-100
Chicago, IL 60601
312-814-5318
jstevens@museum.state.il.us
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