Opening Reception: Thursday, October 24 from 4:30-6:30pm
Given Time: Sensory Aesthetics of Reclamation explores Indigenous relationships to land and how it intersects with issues of sovereignty, environmental sustainability, colonialism, and identity through the presentation of four films by prominent Native artists alongside select objects from the Center of Southwest Studies' museum collections that relate to and enhance the themes presented within the films.
This exhibition is guest curated by Megan Alvarado-Saggese, PhD, Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Fort Lewis College, and features the work of Angelo Baca (Hopi/Diné), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), and New Red Order [Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Zack Khalil (Ojibway) Adam Khalil (Ojibway)].
Notably, Given Time signifies a new and innovative direction for the Center by prominently featuring moving image as a central medium in the museum gallery space for the first time. The content of the works presented foregrounds Indigenous voices and knowledge systems through recollections of personal and shared histories. Film, a vivid mode of direct storytelling, offers an immersive, transportive experience that brings us in connection with the artists’ vision, memories and perspectives.
Featuring films by:
Featuring works from the Center’s museum collections by:
About the Guest Curator
Dr. Megan Alvarado-Saggese is an Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Fort Lewis College. Her teaching and research focus on Indigenous artistic practice in the Americas, bringing Latin American Indigenous visual cultures into conversation with Native American scholarship. Taking a hemispheric approach to Indigenous studies, Dr. Alvarado-Saggese looks at intersections and resonances within Indigenous intellectual thought and strategies of resistance across the Americas. She is currently engaged in a research project that critically reconsiders the political influence of indigenismo on Latin American modernist art.
Exhibition materials designed by Olivia Perea, Fort Lewis College Studio Art major.
Given Time: Sensory Aesthetics of Reclamation was made possible with a generous grant from the City of Durango Arts & Culture Lodger’s Tax Fund.