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Lara M. Evans, Associate Dean
Eric Davis, Marketing & Communications Director 505.424.2351, or eric.davis@iaia.edu |
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Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
September 2017 Artist-in-Residence Program
IAIA Continues Series of Month-Long
Residencies at the School
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SANTA FE, NM - August 29, 2017 - The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) announces the Artist-in-Residence Schedule of Activities for September 2017.
IAIA continues their series of month-long artist residencies which began in August, 2015 . Native and First Nations artists were selected to come to Santa Fe to make art and interact with both the campus community and the Santa Fe arts community. The program includes public receptions and artist talks from each of the artists.
A selection committee of students, faculty, and staff reviewed applications for the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) Program and selected artists for the 2017 sessions.
Artist-in-Residence Program Director and IAIA Associate Dean Lara M. Evans (Cherokee Nation) remarked: "It's so exciting to have this group of artists here together at the same time. We anticipate interesting conversations about plant and animal materials that seem fragile, but can be worked in ways that produce strength and flexibility simultaneously."
Receptions and Studio Events take place on the IAIA Campus, located at 83 Avan Nu Po Road, eight minutes from the intersection of Rodeo Road and Richards Avenue, on the south side of Santa Fe. For directions and a map of the campus, click here.
IAIA Artists-in-Residence (A-i-R) EVENTS September 1-30, 2017
IAIA Welcome Reception for Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
5:00pm-6:30pm in the Academic Building
Please join us in welcoming A-i-R artists, Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen to the IAIA campus.
Dinner will be served from 5:00pm-5:45pm, followed by a tour of the artists' studios.
Free and open to the public.
IAIA A-i-R Open Studios
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
3:00pm-5:00pm in the Allan Houser Haozous Sculpture and Foundry Building and the Academic Building.
Please join our current Artists-in-Residence Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Martha Nielsen
for an open studio session.
See what they've been working on during their IAIA residency
Refreshments served.
Free and open to the public.
KSFR Radio Broadcast
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
4:00pm-4:30pm
KSFR Radio Station
Tune in to hear IAIA Artists-in-Residence speak about their work and their IAIA residency experience. Listen locally at KSFR 101.1FM or stream live at KSFR.org.
Resilient FibersSaturday, September 23, 20171:00pm-2:30 pmIAIA Museum of Contemporary Native ArtThe IAIA Artists-in-Residence for the month of September are all fiber artists! Come to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art for hands-on experiences with interesting materials: wool, bark, grasses, and cured fish skin. Gain insight into techniques and materials featured in the exhibition Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. Janice George(Squamish Nation) introduces Coast Salish weaving, Leanne Campbell (Coeur d'Alene) shows twining techniques used in basketry, and Martha Nielsen (Kokhanok Village) shares Alaskan fish skin as a material for clothing. Free and open to the public.
IAIA A-i-R Farewell Reception
Thursday, September 28, 2017
5:00pm-6:30pm
Academic Building
Please join us for dinner in the Academic Building on September 28th
Followed by a visit to the A-i-R studios to view their accomplishments during their residency.
Free and open to the public.
All events are free and open to the public except the Radio Show.
Janice George (Chepximiya Siyam), from Squamish Nation, Canada, is a master weaver and textile artist who learned to weave from Coast Salish weaver Susan Pavel and Subiyay-t Bruce Miller of Skokomish in 2003. George has integrated Squamish teachings into her work from her late Grandmother Kwitelut-t Lena Jacobs and other Squamish ancestors. George states, "In this short time of my weaving life, a few of my mentors have left this earth. Their breath is carried on in the teachings I pass on. I feel and see the pride that comes from reclaiming our inheritance from our elders and ancestors when we weave and when we wear our beloved weavings. We are taught spiritual protection is part of what we are wearing and feel the love that is put in each hand movement it takes to make a robe." George co-authored the book Salish Blankets, Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth with Willard Joseph and Leslie H. Tepper. For the last twelve years, the artist has been teaching her textile skills across Salish speaking territory. She attended Capilano University, British Columbia, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, and interned at the Canadian Museum of History, Quebec.
Leanne Campbell is an enrolled member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe or Schitsu'umsh - meaning "Those who were found here" or "The Discovered People". Her lineage includes the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation located in central Washington and the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho. Campbell embraces her history, culture, language and traditions while being a speaker of the Schitsu'umsh language. Most renowned for her unique skills in traditional and cultural arts with beadwork and basketry. Her beadwork is a mix of pictorial, geometric designs and old style floral designs of the Northwest Columbia Plateau. Campbell gained valuable experience and knowledge by working over the past twenty-four years with the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. Currently, Campbell serves as the Historic Preservation Program Manager/Curator for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Museum Studies with a minor in Studio Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, and is a United States Air Force veteran of the Desert Shield/Desert Storm era.
Martha Marlene Ann Nielsen is Yupik from Kokhanok, Alaska, located on the south shore of lake Iliamna. This is the largest lake in Alaska and contains several species of fish that spawn yearly. From a young age she has helped to preserve smoke and salt sockeye salmon for winter use. Nielsen is self-taught in the art of making baskets, wallets and jewelry with sockeye salmon skin. She experienced trial and error on learning how to preserve fish skin. Salmon skin art was seen as a lost skill in her area, inspiring her to reintroduce the rare technique by teaching students of all ages. Nielsen has been creating art with fish skin since 2002.
For questions regarding the A-i-R program, or to interview any of the artists, please contact Lara M. Evans at 505.424.2389 or levans@iaia.edu.
Funding for the IAIA A-i-R Program has been generously provided by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.
Interested in applying for an IAIA Artist-in-Residence session? The deadline for Spring 2018 is October 1st. Please visit www.iaia.edu/air
Offering undergraduate degrees in Studio Arts, Creative Writing, Cinematic Arts and Technology, Indigenous Liberal Studies, and Museum Studies -- and a graduate degree in Creative Writing -- IAIA is the only college in the nation dedicated to the study of contemporary Native arts. The school serves 593 Native and non-Native American college students from across the globe. IAIA is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges -- and is the only college in New Mexico accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
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