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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The Block Museum of Art is grateful to announce that it is the recipient of a $45,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the exhibition Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera. This upcoming exhibition will feature new work created by the artist to expand her […]
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In this online tour Block Museum curators Essi Rönkkö and Kate Hadley Toftness discuss the work of two artists whose works seek to reframe the narratives of history. The discussion focuses on the work of Shan Goshorn and Rosalie Favell, two contemporary artists presenting art as a critical intervention in the histories of harm and […]
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