She has shown both nationally and internationally, most recently at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Heavily influenced by her upbringing in the Dakota and Lakota cultures, Christy weaves the Native experience into her work. She received her MFA from the University of North Dakota in 2011 and has since created works that challenge the status quo of human activity and the resulting impacts. Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind employs these new substrates to intimately speak to the artist’s experiences of cultural disconnect, domestic struggles, and a general liaison with her new environment.Ĭhristy is a native North Dakotan, born to two artists on the Sanger Art Farm, located at the northern edge of the Sheyenne River Valley. The artist’s cultural and personal transition from the Great Plains to an urban Chicago environment is represented on found wood, fabric, and other surfaces through text and imagery gathered in a daily journal. Images are transferred through print onto surfaces found and gathered in Chicago. The work in Domestic Tides / Indigenous Mind stems from a fascination with this contemporary shift. Through self-applied cultural guilt and gender expectations, visuals emerge that suggest the artist’s voice is becoming comfortable in the 21st century metropolis.Īs traditional printmaking moves from a commercial process to fine art editions to a contemporary medium, artists are continually exploring new matrices and substrates and their conceptual implications. Historically, it was used to make a neat ball at the end of a rope and was often tied. In this class we will learn to tie the monkey’s fist knot. Spend a night under the brilliant Milkyway on Australia’s largest aggregate of saltpans with Gangalidda-Garawa Traditional Owners on the Yaliya’s Stories (Stargazing) tour. Columbia Basin Basketry Guild (based at Multnomah Arts Center) (map) Google Calendar ICS. The tiny town of Burketown, population approximately 300, punches above its weight with Indigenous-owned and ran Yagurli Tours. The Moon is the weaver of the tides and the leader of the waters of the Earth.
While exploring a new city, both foreign and known images were gathered: deer hair, parking signs, coyote tracks, municipal tickets, bird feathers, and corner store signs. August’s 4th Monday Mini Class: Monkey’s Fist. In Indigenous culture, the Moon is known as Grandmother Moon and is connected to women’s sacredness, as well as to the roles and responsibilities that come with being a woman. The exhibition considers Jessica Christy’s transplanted indigenous identity, one connected to place, in the midst of a culture shock. Spudnik Press Cooperative, 1821 West Hubbard, Chicago IL 60622 Corresponding Events:ĭomestic Tides / Indigenous Mind | Opening Reception & Artist Talk Exhibition Statement:ĭomestic Tides / Indigenous Mind explores a move from the prairies of North Dakota to the urban environment of Chicago.
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