Free Online Artist Talk – “Collaborating with Place” with Artist Shawn Skabelund

Shawn Skabelund

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk

“Collaborating with Place” with Artist Shawn Skabelund

Saturday, October 30, 2021, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

The landscapes I live in become my studio, not as subject matter to draw or paint, but to observe and look, discovering materials that I can collect in order to create new “landscapes” and forms. As someone with three degrees in drawing, I will discuss the trajectory of my career and my creative process in creating site-specific, place-based installations.

Shawn Skabelund is an artist, educator and independent curator based in Flagstaff, AZ, working with and in specific landscapes to reveal their complex issues, ecologies and cultural histories. Shawn grew up in the small logging town of McCall, ID, in the mountains of Payette National Forest. His fondest childhood memories were of days picking huckleberries, which would become the root of his creative process. He received his MFA in Drawing/Painting from the University of Iowa in 1990 and his BFA in Drawing from Utah State University in 1987.

For three decades, Skabelund’s creative research and place-based craft and practice have focused on what Wendell Berry calls “the unsettling of America,” and how historical and contemporary Manifest Destiny have impacted specific landscapes and cultures in the United States. In particular, he is interested in the ecological consequences of anthropogenic climate change and for the past decade he has been exploring human’s relationship with Earth, and the planet’s relationship with fire, both in its origin and now in its destruction, and understanding the pyrocene and the interaction between our addiction to fossil fuels and natural fire.

Skabelund’s projects have been commissioned and funded by organizations including the Arizona Commission on the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, The Contemporary Forum of the Phoenix Art Museum, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Bandelier National Monument and Northern Arizona University’s College of Arts & Letters and School of Music, and the Martin-Springer Institute. His recent work has been developed as an artist-in-residence, resulting in large-scale installations and/or performative art actions in collaboration with community engagement and partnership. Such projects have unfolded throughout the American West, from Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico to the Wrangell Mountains Center, McCarthy, Alaska and from the Volland Store, Alma, Kansas to BoxoProjects, Joshua Tree, CA. The projects he has helped plan and the exhibitions he has curated have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Work grants, the Joint Fire Science Program, Southwest Fire Science Consortium, and the Landscape Conservation Initiative.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline103021

Free Online Artist Talk – Under the Microscope: Using Process to Develop Visual Voice with Artist Debra Edgerton

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Amerind Free Online Artist Talk - Under the Microscope: Using Process to Develop Visual Voice with Artist Debra Edgerton

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk

Under the Microscope: Using Process to Develop Visual Voice with Artist Debra Edgerton

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

I’ve always been fascinated by the power of water. From fear to reverence, water contains a multi-layered narrative that connects all organisms to a living planet. Most conversation concerning water center around how human-kind is affected by its contamination or depletion. Water is life-giving and life-sustaining but there is less regard for most life living through it.

I started basic research on freshwater ecosystems in 2019. It culminated in the group exhibition, Parched, about general water issues. However, my vision for dissemination could not be achieved because of the demands for shared space and my own truncated research. Because we live in a time of climate severity, water depletion, and skepticism in science, I am continuing my vision of connecting art and science to give visual voice to an area most of the public will not engage. The art developmental process echoes how I feel about the multi-faceted issues of water. My presentation looks behind the scenes in the crafting of an idea and what it takes to bring it to life.

Debra Edgerton an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University. She received her two MFAs in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and Interdisciplinary Art at Vermont College. Her art practice addresses cultural identity, perception, imprinting of memory, displacement, and water issues. Edgerton’s recent artwork recontextualizes grief and loss for women of color. The spectacle of grief in media overshadows quiet despair, empathy, and humanity. She uses art as a mechanism to explore how we process information and its effect on emotional connections.

Ms. Edgerton currently is extending her research into algae and microorganisms and how the beginning of the fresh water aquatic food web can be studied for environmental and climate issues.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline101621

Free Online Gallery Talk – Consumption eARTh: Art in the Anthropocene Age with Artist Neal Galloway

Free Online Gallery Talk:

Consumption eARTh: Art in the Anthropocene Age with Artist Neal Galloway

Saturday, July 31, 2021, 11:00 am

Artist Neal Galloway will present on his works and art practice which explore the ways in which Earth’s environment is ultimately shaped by human consumption. Galloway’s conceptual artwork explores our understanding of nature, waste, materiality, and our emotional connections to objects and ecosystems. Society has created complex systems which disconnect people from both the origins of their material belongings and from the utterly staggering volume of waste they produce. His artwork seeks to highlight these connections and explore human relationships to the natural world, social inequality, and consumer practices. These pieces take a variety of forms including sculpture, environmental works, installations, performance, videos, and more—using a wide range of traditional and non-traditional art materials.

Neal Galloway is an artist and educator from Flagstaff, Arizona who serves as a Foundations Lecturer in the School of Art at Northern Arizona University. He holds an MFA in 3D and Extended Media from the University of Arizona and a BA in Art and Music from the University of Tulsa. Galloway has been teaching college-level art courses for more than a decade and has exhibited artwork at a wide range of venues across the United States.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline073121

Free Online Documentary Viewing and Q&A Panel Discussion – Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest

 

Free Online Documentary Viewing and Q&A Panel Discussion 

Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest

Saturday, May 8, 2021, 10:00 am -12:00 pm – Arizona Time

View the Documentary at 10:00 am – Arizona Time

Participate in the Q&A Panel Discussion at 11:00 am – Arizona Time

Experience the Exhibit at Amerind Now through January 16, 2022

Saturday, May 8 Amerind invites you to a free online documentary viewing and panel discussion of “Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest.” The Parched documentary tells the story of the creation of the art exhibit – “Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest” currently on display at Amerind – which explores the complexities of water in the context of climate change and increasing demands on water. Nine Arizona-based artists created works, informed by scientific and cultural inquiry, that reflect diverse perspectives and provocative insight into our intricate relationship with water in our natural, cultural, and political landscapes. After the documentary viewing, stay tuned for a Q&A panel discussion that will include Parched Curator Julie Comnick, Artist Klee Benally (Diné), Artist Glory Tacheenie-Campoy (Diné), Artist Marie Gladue (Diné), and NAU Biologist Jane Marks.

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: http://bit.ly/AmerindOnline050821

Adáádáá’ Nizhónîgo Nahóółtá (Yesterday We Had a Beautiful Rain) with Artist Glory Tacheenie-Campoy (Diné)

Amerind Free Online Lecture

Adáádáá’ Nizhónîgo Nahóółtá (Yesterday We Had a Beautiful Rain) with Artist Glory Tacheenie-Campoy (Diné)

Saturday, April 17, 11:00 am – Arizona Time

Glory Tacheenie-Campoy was born on the Diné reservation to the maternal clan of Kinyáá á nii (Tall Tower Clan) and paternal clan, Bįįtoodnii (Deer Spring Water Clan). She grew up in a traditional Diné family and community near the Grand Canyon. It was within this setting she was taught to create utilitarian objects by hand during her childhood. She would then go on to learn how to paint and create art using commercial art materials while in school. With this blended arts education, Glory now produces prints, paintings, collages, and 3-D original mixed media art using a variety of materials including found objects, natural materials, and metal. During her Amerind presentation, Glory will discuss her contributions to the group exhibition, “Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest,” currently on display at the Amerind Museum. Glory will also talk about new pieces she began to develop in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To learn more about “Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest” including information about curator Julie Comnick, participating artists, partners, supporters, and the traveling exhibition schedule, visit: www.flagartscouncil.org

This online program is free, but space is limited. To register visit: http://bit.ly/AmerindOnline041721

Free Online Artist Talk with Ramson Lomatewama

Free Online Artist Talk with Ramson Lomatewama (Hopi)

Saturday, December 5, 2020, 1:00 pm, Arizona time

Ramson Lomatewama is a carver, a poet, a master at the art of glass blowing, and a pioneering artist at Hopi. Mr. Lomatewama will talk about his artistic career and vision, as well as the inspiration behind his art form. Mr. Lomatewama has won numerous awards for his artistry, and his works are sold in some of the finest art galleries in the country. His pieces are in the collection of several museums, including the Amerind’s.

This online program is free, but space is limited.

To register visit: http://bit.ly/AmerindOnine120520

Amerind Virtual Autumn Fest: Free Online Salon and Art Sale with Gerry Quotskuyva

 

Amerind Virtual Autumn Fest

Free Salon and Art Sale with Gerry Quotskuyva

Saturday, October 17, 2020 1:30 pm – Arizona Time

 

Hopi artist Gerry Quotskuyva is a member of the Bear Strap Clan from the Second Mesa Village of Shungopavi in Northern Arizona. A painter, carver, and sculptor, his remarkable style has been nationally recognized in various media including public television, newspaper articles and books including Art of the Hopi by Jerry and Lois Jacka, Katsina by Zena Pearlstone, and Ancestral Echoes, a ten-year retrospective. During this free online event, Gerry will discuss his work and share items he currently has for sale.

Watch the program live on Amerind’s Facebook page or register to watch on Zoom.

Holiday Mercado

Holiday Mercado

Saturday-Sunday, December 11-12, 2021, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM 

Join us for your holiday shopping while also supporting Amerind. Many Amerind friends have given us their own collections of art, pottery, jewelry, carvings, and so much more, specifically for us to resell to the public. At this two-day Holiday Mercado you will find treasures to add to your own collections or to give as gifts this holiday season. Included with Museum admission.