C3:CORE RESIDENCY + PROGRAMS
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PARTICIPATE
Contribute to a monumental artwork. Embroider a message onto a bandana which artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt will incorporate into a forthcoming large scale sculpture for the Each/Other exhibition at Denver Art Museum, May 23-August 22, 2021. Thank you to all who attended our Sept + Oct sewing virtual sewing circles! If you would like assistance organizing your own sewing circle for your child’s classroom, your book club, group of friends, etcetera, please contact us at info@c3initiative.org. |
If you can’t make it to a c3 sewing circle, you can still participate.
Embroidered bandanas needed by DECEMBER 1, 2020
Instructions:
- Acquire a bandana or a piece of repurposed fabric roughly the size of a bandana
- Fold bandana/fabric corner to corner to create a triangle
- Embroider/stitch text, imagery or any other visual sentiment onto a corner portion of the fabric
- Ship to the artists at this address:
℅ Each/Other
30088 S Camp Colton Dr
Colton, OR 97017
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What would the world look like if, as humans, we thought of ourselves as companion species? Can acts of creative collaboration help heal broken bonds with the environment and with each other? Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt invite the public to consider such questions while contributing to the physical manifestation of a large-scale sculptural installation. Through national and international participation, the artwork will become a temporary monument to collective relationship and collaborative handwork, bringing audiences into a tactile encounter with critically relevant issues of protection, shelter, reciprocity, sustenance, exchange, power, action, stewardship, wildness, kinship, vulnerability, and ferocity.
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Want to learn more about this project? Check out this video conversation between Cannupa and Marie. |
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RESIDENCY UPDATES
We are excited to announce that Portland, OR based artist, Marie Watt has been awarded a c3:core residency in collaboration with Cannupa Hanska Luger. The Core Residency is a long-term, process-based, artist-driven program that supports residents in the creation of new work from conception to completion.
As an artist led program the core residency responds to timely and emergent needs. When core resident, Cannupa Hanska Luger began collaborating with Marie Watt to create a joint project to be exhibited at the Denver Art Museum in 2021, c3 staff agreed that supporting this work was a natural fit. The Denver Art Museum exhibition, EACH/OTHER marks the first time that these artists are collaborating with one another. As an organization that values partnerships, and seeks to give time and space for the development of new artistic works, c3:initiative is excited to continue supporting Cannupa and to begin introducing Marie Watt’s work to our community.
In summer 2020 Luger and Watt were in residence at our rural campus at Camp Colton for an in person residency visit, during which they partnered with the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to create a video call to action for their collaborative sculpture project. In 2021 c3:initiative will host an introductory exhibition of Marie Watt’s work. We look forward to sharing more info about public programs related to this collaborative residency throughout 2021.
PAST PUBLIC PROGRAMS
A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT
Cannupa Hanska Luger Introduction Exhibition + Performance
September 5—October 18, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 5, 5-8pm
Performance: Thursday, September 5, durational from 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm and by appointment
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
A Frayed Knot
There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through tension or abrasion or brute force, has been cut. The edge of this line is broken and unravelling. In order to connect to our past we must take up that line in both hands and tie it to our present in order to guide us into the future. Our stories are a long worn line and the effort to maintain them has left an artifact of that care in the form of A Frayed Knot.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
AFRAID NOT
Performative action by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will tie a physical line from the tools of ar-ti-fa-ct to their task.
These are not ancient artifacts.
These are not culturally specific artifacts.
These will not be found in the historical record.
These do not shine light on a lost civilization.
These were not dug from pits by devoted scholars.
These were not stolen from burial grounds.
These were not gifts from a fascinated collector.
These are not donations from friends of the museum.
These are trapped tools for our current battle.
These are made of earth to slay our earth eating monsters.
These fit in our hands. These rest on our shoulders.
The instructions for use are embedded in our genetic memory.
These are needed now and so are we.
In this time we must remember our belonging to the earth.
We must re-establish reverence for our land, rather than resource.
We must recall the fact that we are this place.
We must fight. We must survive.
EVENTS TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION
Wednesday, October 2, 6-8pm
Join us for a presentation of a new essay by writer Jacqueline Keeler, created in response to Cannupa Hanska Luger's exhibition, A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT. This is a free, open to the public event.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book “The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears” is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming “Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes” will be released next year.
SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO: INTERACTIVE PROGRAM
Saturday, October 12, 2-4pm
At this interactive event you are invited to make a handmade clay bead for Cannupa Hanska Luger's project, Something to Hold Onto. Leading the activity is Portland based artist, Maya Vivas.
ABOUT CANNUPA'S PROJECT
According to Border Patrol statistics, more than 7,209 human beings have died while crossing the southwestern border of the United States over the past 20 years. The International Organization for Migration has recorded the deaths of nearly 25,000 humans attempting to migrate across the globe’s imposed borders since 2014. Both numbers are vastly underestimated; both are unfathomable.
Something to Hold Onto considers ancestral migratory routes and the lands of Indigenous peoples affected by imposed borders, acknowledging all asylum seekers, tribal lands, longstanding relationships to land and migration as cultural practice. This intersectional project highlights the impact of borders on Indigenous bodies and how, across the continent, our migration routes have been traumatically interrupted through incarceration and death.
Something to Hold Onto will incorporate more than 7,209 handmade beads as a way to collectively re-humanize this large, abstract, and dehumanizing data. Cannupa invites communities to make and contribute clay beads, honoring lives lost along the now unsafe migration paths of Indigenous people.
This collective call to action is not designed to confront policy change, but creates an opportunity to embed handmade earthen objects with empathy -- from nation to nation, from human to human. These small clay objects embedded with a fist print, will string together a line of solidarity, building global consciousness around Indigenous peoples and our connection to movement and land. In opposition to the incarceration and militarization that separates geography, Something to Hold Onto pieces together people and places in a tapestry of borderless compassion.
All unfired beads made at the event will be mailed to Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum at Mesa Arts Center to be included in Cannupa's project.
ABOUT MAYA VIVAS
Maya Vivas is a ceramic sculptor and performance artist based in of Portland Oregon and co-founder of Ori Gallery. Whose mission is to redefine "the white cube" through amplifying the voices of Queer and Trans Artists of color, community organizing and mobilization through the arts.
PRESS
Performa Magazine Review, AFRAID NOT, September 12, 2019
We are excited to announce that Portland, OR based artist, Marie Watt has been awarded a c3:core residency in collaboration with Cannupa Hanska Luger. The Core Residency is a long-term, process-based, artist-driven program that supports residents in the creation of new work from conception to completion.
As an artist led program the core residency responds to timely and emergent needs. When core resident, Cannupa Hanska Luger began collaborating with Marie Watt to create a joint project to be exhibited at the Denver Art Museum in 2021, c3 staff agreed that supporting this work was a natural fit. The Denver Art Museum exhibition, EACH/OTHER marks the first time that these artists are collaborating with one another. As an organization that values partnerships, and seeks to give time and space for the development of new artistic works, c3:initiative is excited to continue supporting Cannupa and to begin introducing Marie Watt’s work to our community.
In summer 2020 Luger and Watt were in residence at our rural campus at Camp Colton for an in person residency visit, during which they partnered with the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to create a video call to action for their collaborative sculpture project. In 2021 c3:initiative will host an introductory exhibition of Marie Watt’s work. We look forward to sharing more info about public programs related to this collaborative residency throughout 2021.
PAST PUBLIC PROGRAMS
A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT
Cannupa Hanska Luger Introduction Exhibition + Performance
September 5—October 18, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 5, 5-8pm
Performance: Thursday, September 5, durational from 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm and by appointment
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
A Frayed Knot
There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through tension or abrasion or brute force, has been cut. The edge of this line is broken and unravelling. In order to connect to our past we must take up that line in both hands and tie it to our present in order to guide us into the future. Our stories are a long worn line and the effort to maintain them has left an artifact of that care in the form of A Frayed Knot.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
AFRAID NOT
Performative action by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will tie a physical line from the tools of ar-ti-fa-ct to their task.
These are not ancient artifacts.
These are not culturally specific artifacts.
These will not be found in the historical record.
These do not shine light on a lost civilization.
These were not dug from pits by devoted scholars.
These were not stolen from burial grounds.
These were not gifts from a fascinated collector.
These are not donations from friends of the museum.
These are trapped tools for our current battle.
These are made of earth to slay our earth eating monsters.
These fit in our hands. These rest on our shoulders.
The instructions for use are embedded in our genetic memory.
These are needed now and so are we.
In this time we must remember our belonging to the earth.
We must re-establish reverence for our land, rather than resource.
We must recall the fact that we are this place.
We must fight. We must survive.
EVENTS TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION
Wednesday, October 2, 6-8pm
Join us for a presentation of a new essay by writer Jacqueline Keeler, created in response to Cannupa Hanska Luger's exhibition, A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT. This is a free, open to the public event.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book “The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears” is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming “Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes” will be released next year.
SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO: INTERACTIVE PROGRAM
Saturday, October 12, 2-4pm
At this interactive event you are invited to make a handmade clay bead for Cannupa Hanska Luger's project, Something to Hold Onto. Leading the activity is Portland based artist, Maya Vivas.
ABOUT CANNUPA'S PROJECT
According to Border Patrol statistics, more than 7,209 human beings have died while crossing the southwestern border of the United States over the past 20 years. The International Organization for Migration has recorded the deaths of nearly 25,000 humans attempting to migrate across the globe’s imposed borders since 2014. Both numbers are vastly underestimated; both are unfathomable.
Something to Hold Onto considers ancestral migratory routes and the lands of Indigenous peoples affected by imposed borders, acknowledging all asylum seekers, tribal lands, longstanding relationships to land and migration as cultural practice. This intersectional project highlights the impact of borders on Indigenous bodies and how, across the continent, our migration routes have been traumatically interrupted through incarceration and death.
Something to Hold Onto will incorporate more than 7,209 handmade beads as a way to collectively re-humanize this large, abstract, and dehumanizing data. Cannupa invites communities to make and contribute clay beads, honoring lives lost along the now unsafe migration paths of Indigenous people.
This collective call to action is not designed to confront policy change, but creates an opportunity to embed handmade earthen objects with empathy -- from nation to nation, from human to human. These small clay objects embedded with a fist print, will string together a line of solidarity, building global consciousness around Indigenous peoples and our connection to movement and land. In opposition to the incarceration and militarization that separates geography, Something to Hold Onto pieces together people and places in a tapestry of borderless compassion.
All unfired beads made at the event will be mailed to Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum at Mesa Arts Center to be included in Cannupa's project.
ABOUT MAYA VIVAS
Maya Vivas is a ceramic sculptor and performance artist based in of Portland Oregon and co-founder of Ori Gallery. Whose mission is to redefine "the white cube" through amplifying the voices of Queer and Trans Artists of color, community organizing and mobilization through the arts.
PRESS
Performa Magazine Review, AFRAID NOT, September 12, 2019
This project is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the performance is presented in partnership with PICA’s 2019 TBA Festival.
ABOUT THE C3:CORE RESIDENCY
This program supports invited creatives with an adaptable residency that offers the space, time, and resources needed to make new work from concept to completion over an approximate two-year duration. It is a low residency program that connects the local community with nationally and internationally recognized persons through partnerships and programs. c3:initiative believes that art is a springboard for dialog and throughout the residency we collaborate with our Core Resident to create programs that highlights the themes and concepts they are engaging.
ABOUT THE RESIDENTS
CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration, and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, and cut-paper, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring and oftentimes presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits.
Recent, notable works include The MMIWQT Bead Project (2018), a social collaboration resulting in the monumental sculptural installation Every One, composed of over 4000 individual handmade clay beads created by hundreds of communities across the U.S. and Canada to re-humanize the data of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer and trans community members; and The Mirror Shield Project (2016), a social engagement work which invited the public to create mirrored shields for water protectors at Standing Rock and which has since been formatted and used in various resistance movements across the nation.
Luger is the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design’s 2018 Burke Prize, the inaugural award celebrating ‘highly accomplished work, strong use of materials, innovative processes, and conceptual rigor and relevance’, and The Wall Street Journal named Cannupa Hanska Luger as Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Local Hero for America’s Art Scene in 2018. Luger has exhibited internationally including venues such as Princeton University Art Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Art Mûr in Montreal, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Orenda Gallery in Paris, Autry Museum of the American West, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, among others. He lectures, participates in residencies and large scale projects around the globe and his work is collected internationally. Luger holds a BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
MARIE WATT is an American artist and citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots ancestry. Her work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Through collaborative actions she instigates multigenerational and cross-disciplinary conversations that might create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe.
Her process is both solitary and cooperative. Small works are personal meditations. Larger works are made in community, notably in sewing circles, public events in which anyone may participate. The fellowship and storytelling that takes place around the worktable is as important as the object that grows out of it.
This program supports invited creatives with an adaptable residency that offers the space, time, and resources needed to make new work from concept to completion over an approximate two-year duration. It is a low residency program that connects the local community with nationally and internationally recognized persons through partnerships and programs. c3:initiative believes that art is a springboard for dialog and throughout the residency we collaborate with our Core Resident to create programs that highlights the themes and concepts they are engaging.
ABOUT THE RESIDENTS
CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration, and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, and cut-paper, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring and oftentimes presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits.
Recent, notable works include The MMIWQT Bead Project (2018), a social collaboration resulting in the monumental sculptural installation Every One, composed of over 4000 individual handmade clay beads created by hundreds of communities across the U.S. and Canada to re-humanize the data of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer and trans community members; and The Mirror Shield Project (2016), a social engagement work which invited the public to create mirrored shields for water protectors at Standing Rock and which has since been formatted and used in various resistance movements across the nation.
Luger is the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design’s 2018 Burke Prize, the inaugural award celebrating ‘highly accomplished work, strong use of materials, innovative processes, and conceptual rigor and relevance’, and The Wall Street Journal named Cannupa Hanska Luger as Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Local Hero for America’s Art Scene in 2018. Luger has exhibited internationally including venues such as Princeton University Art Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Art Mûr in Montreal, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Orenda Gallery in Paris, Autry Museum of the American West, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, among others. He lectures, participates in residencies and large scale projects around the globe and his work is collected internationally. Luger holds a BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
MARIE WATT is an American artist and citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scots ancestry. Her work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Through collaborative actions she instigates multigenerational and cross-disciplinary conversations that might create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe.
Her process is both solitary and cooperative. Small works are personal meditations. Larger works are made in community, notably in sewing circles, public events in which anyone may participate. The fellowship and storytelling that takes place around the worktable is as important as the object that grows out of it.