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 ecarney@potawatomi.org or Roy Slavin at rslavin@potawatomi.org 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.
