Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June 25, 2023-January 7, 2024 and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, May 18-September 15, 2024.
Contents:
Praise song for hands / Kinsale Drake -- Honoring matriarchy / Amy Smith-Stewart -- Voices that demand to be heard / Amy Smith-Stewart in conversation with Raven Halfmoon -- The future of legacy / Rachel Adams -- Works in the exhibition -- Praise song for hands / Kinsale Drake -- List of works List of works
Summary:
Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, Raven Halfmoon (born 1991) learned traditional ceramic techniques as a teenager from a Caddo elder. Her celebrated practice spans torso-scaled to colossal stoneware sculptures, with some soaring up to nine feet and weighing over 1,000 pounds. These dramatic totemic works reference stories of the Caddo, the feminist lineage of indigenous artmaking and the complexities of her lived experience. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, co-organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Flags of Our Mothers presents work made over the last five years, including some of the artist's largest sculptures to date. Fully illustrated with texts by the co-curators and a new commissioned poem by Kinsale Drake, this publication marks Halfmoon's first museum catalog.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.