Considering the idea of home, land-based artist Lydia Cheshewalla (Osage, Cherokee, Dakota, Modoc, Xicanx) shared the complexity of the many places she’s connected with throughout her life. “I feel like I’m just trying to make the world be my home,” she said. “Home has so many layers.” On November 1, 2023 The Block partnered with […]
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As part of his work as The Block’s 2022-23 graduate interdisciplinary fellow, Felipe Gutiérrez, a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, helped curate The Block’s Fall 2023 exhibition Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera. Following the end of his fellowship at The Block and the opening of Favell’s exhibition, Gutiérrez shares […]
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Facing the Camera, Rosalie Favell’s expansive portraiture project, began at an indigenous artist residency to which the artist arrived late – “not by hours,” she said. “But by weeks.” Uncertain of what to make, she drew inspiration from the extraordinary colleagues who had convened at the residency. She decided to create a large-format portrait series […]
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