Now exhibiting at the Library: “Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding”

The Sojourner Truth Library is an important intellectual and communal hub of activity at SUNY New Paltz, and one way it fills this role is by dedicating its lobby space to a revolving series of exhibitions of student work and/or contemporary art, which often speak to current world events and issues that affect the lives of all community members.

The current Library exhibition, on display until Jan. 22, is “Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Respond,” a collection that originally appeared at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado.

[Click here to view photos from the exhibition]

“Home” gathers the work of twelve Indigenous artists working in printmaking, who each adopt a unique perspective from which to consider the ideas of community, place and belonging.

Organized by Melanie Yazzie, professor of art at the University of Colorado at Boulder, this exhibition demonstrates an Indigenous relationship to home and homeland, enmeshed in a history of defense, sacrifice, resiliency, and redefinition.

The exhibition includes a print and an original essay by Assistant Professor of Art Kevin Slivka, who helped bring this collection to New Paltz.

Other contributing artists include: Norman Akers, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Ivy Hali’imaile Andrade, Corwin Clairmont, Joe Feddersen, Alexander Swiftwater McCarty, Tony Ortega, Sue Pearson, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, C. Maxx Stevens, Glory Tacheenie-Campoy and Melanie Yazzie.