O’nigöëi:yo:h Thinking In Indian Exhibit (July 14 – October 2, 2022)

O’nigöëi:yo:h Thinking In Indian Exhibit (July 14 – October 2, 2022)

An exhibition of Hodinöhsö:ni’ artists celebrating 2022 as the 50th year of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Credit: 
UB Art Galleries, Margaret Jacobs, Mishuana Goeman, Jolene Rickard, Laticia McNaughton, Gwendolyn Saul, Theresa McCarthy,

At a time when the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Indigenous activism has blossomed, we look back and forward to the seeding of intellectual traditions, seizing of territorial imaginings through meaningful actions, and the threading of our grounded relationality as we come together with a good mind. Works by over 30 artists from the Hodinöhsö:ni’ Confederacy – Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora – will be featured across the University at Buffalo in UB Art Galleries spaces. Visions of our artists will interconnect ideas through their imagery and highlighting of collective goals across generations and nations. The exhibition will include works created from a wide range of media – digital data, black ash, moose hair, glass beads, paint, and more. Each artwork is a demonstration of intergenerational knowledge with a 21st-century perspective.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by one of the founders of Native American Studies at the University at Buffalo, Dr. John Mohawk “Sotsisowah” (Seneca). Thinking in Indian A John Mohawk Reader is an Indigenous analysis of modern existence touching upon issues ranging from sovereignty to the coalescence of human wisdom. O’nigöëi:yo:h Thinking in Indian presents a multi-generational perspective, centering the artist’s voices around questions of land and gender, visual language and action, and imagining Hodinöhsö:ni’ futures.

O’nigöëi:yo:h Thinking in Indian speaks of Hodinöhsö:ni’ foundations of seeding, seizing territorial imaginings, and threading our relationships between the human and non-human in the first person with the intention to provoke and inspire as it reframes present discourses.

This exhibition is organized by UB Art Galleries with Margaret Jacobs (Akwesasne Mohawk), curatorial consultant, and guided by an advisory committee comprised of Dr. Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, UCLA; Dr. Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora), Professor of the History of Art and Visual Studies and former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell University; Laticia McNaughton (Mohawk), Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Dr. Gwendolyn Saul, Curator of Ethnography at the New York State Museum. Special thanks to Dr. Theresa McCarthy (Onondaga) Interim Chair and Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Buffalo.

Support for the exhibition is provided in part by the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts with additional support provided by the UB Department of Indigenous Studies. Support for UB Art Galleries is provided by the UB College of Arts and Sciences, the Visual Arts Building Fund, the UB Anderson Gallery Fund, and the Seymour H. Knox Foundation Fine Art Fund.

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O'nigöëi:yo:h Thinking in Indian Exhibit Announcement Poster, 2022

 

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Items in Collection
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India ink, oil pastel, and acrylic paint.
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Shelley Niro
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Turtle
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Wool, cornhusk, steel, sinew, glue, 72x30x12 inches
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Erin Lee Antonak
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Embroidered and quilted cotton blend fabric, 56 x 62.5 x .25 inches
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Faye Lone
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Corn husk doll display, corn husks, felt, beads, leather, clay, wood. Height unknown x 120 x 120 inches.
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Elizabeth Doxtater
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Wool, quilted synthetic velvet, polyester ribbon, glass beads, sequins, 50 x 41 inches (without tassels)
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PVC pipe, cotton twill tape
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Ange Loft
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Mixed medium. Fabric, threads, beads, wire armature, stuffing, black roving for hair, doe skin moccasins, ribbons, lace 19 x 10.5 x 4 inches
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Barbara Hill, Barbara-Helen Hill
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glass beads, rawhide, 16.14 inches
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Elizabeth Doxtater
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Shelley Niro
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Shelley Niro
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Turtle
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non-digital, black and white negative, one-off manipulated image; printed on Colour archival Kodak Supra Endura or Fujicolour Crystal Archive Matte paper; matte laminate; drymount on dibond with u-channels
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Patricia Deadman
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Watercolor with raised beadwork on manipulated paper, 29.125 x 23.125 x .5 inches framed
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Dawn Dark Mountain
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Paper, 18 x 23 inches
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Brandon Lazore
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on paper 16 x 60 inches
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Brandon Lazore
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Mixed media on canvas, 48x72 inches
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Tracey Anthony
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Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 x 1.5 inches
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Digital prints on Epson Hot Press Bright, Installed: 48 x 114 inches
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Jolene Rickard
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Turtle
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Digital collage on paper, 12.75 x 17 inches
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Laticia McNaughton
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Wolf
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Digital collage on paper, 17 x 10.875 inches
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Laticia McNaughton
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Wolf
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Densite plaster, acrylic, cornhusks, 16 x 13 x 11 inches
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Natasha Smoke-Santiago
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Turtle
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ceramic pottery, 9.5x11.5 inches
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Katsitsionni Fox
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Oil on panel, 30 x 24 inches, 31.125 x 25.125 x 3 inches framed
Creator
Luanne Redeye
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Glass, 5.5 x 14 x 7.5 inches
Creator
Marie Watt
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Turtle