PLEASE JOIN ME | this Sunday, March 9th during our Meet the Artists reception from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Concordia University for the opening of Honoring Our Native American Art - an exhibit of contemporary / current work by Native artists in our area. I am fortunate to be included in this exhibit, along with these amazing artists: - Lillian Pitt - Toma Villa - Mark Shelton - Ruth Gourdine - Byron Kalama - Ed Edmo, and - Kaila Farrell-Smith Please stop by, Id love to see you and show you some of my new work and share with you the work of my fellow artists. Heres the Gallery info: George R. White Library and Learning Center Concordia University Library 2800 NE Liberty Street, Portland 97211 Art sales benefits the Red Lodge Transition Services and COncordia University Libraries Art & Culture Program. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Story Behind the print Courageous Daughter by Adrienne Fritze While I was at the Dakota Conference on Wounded Knee a couple of years back, where I was able to face the men who had taken my family and I hostage during the occupation of Wounded Knee some 40+ years earlier, I was fortunate to meet a young Lakota woman, Karin Eagle. She is a reporter by trade, and was there covering the conference. She is also a resident of the Pine Ridge (family home) and Rapid City (where she works for the Native Sun News and lives with her children). Karin, in a show of support for me as I was sitting on a panel during the conference, took off her journalist credentials and stood at the back of the room where I could see her and she stood in camaraderie with me as I shared the details of my harrowing and heart breaking experience during the 1973 Occupation of my home town of Wounded Knee. She and I had not yet met, and there she was offering me her support, standing where I could clearly see her, silently giving me the will and courage to continue sharing. When she and I finally introduced ourselves to each other following the panel, there was an outpouring of experience and sister-hood that I have rarely experienced to such depths in an instant as I did with her. We have been powerfully bonded ever since. Toward the end of last year I started a sketchbook project I call “Borders and Lines” and I invited my friends/family/acquaintances on Facebook to offer topics to fill in the borders I’d created. I collected everyone’s input, put the ideas in a hat, and then drew out one concept to create an artwork reflecting that topic. I drew Karin’s suggestion of a puzzle, and knew exactly what I wanted to do. That year Karin’s daughter, Maya, had been plagued by bullies in her school – other native girls who would gang up on her, beat her up and steal her things. This artwork came out of how courageous Maya was in the face of her bullies… Maya had experienced a particularly rough beating, and rather than let the bullying dictate how she would live her life at school, she picked herself up, brushed herself off, put back the pieces of her dignity and pride, and showed up at school the next day. Even though the girls were there trying to intimidate her, she carried on in the face of that threat, undeterred. I was deeply moved by Maya’s courage, and that became the inspiration for the artwork.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:58:26 +0000
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