New snow sculpture captures attention in the dog days of winter
Chemainus snow sculpture attracts attention, Murphy does not approve
Here’s What’s Going in Indian Country, January 19th-25th
- Details
- By Kaili Berg
-
January 19, 2024
This week in Indian Country, there are plenty of events for everyone to enjoy. From winter powwows to Native American markets and fashion shows, here is Native News Online’s weekly round-up of arts, culture, and entertainment offerings around Indian Country.
Snow Snake Workshop
Washington, CT
January 20, 2024
Join the Institute for American Indian Studies educator and wood crafter Susan Scherf for an afternoon of whittling good fun. Materials will be provided as well as some wood burning kits. Participants are welcome to bring a whittling knife. If weather permits, join in a friendly competition following the workshop.
Native Art Market’s Outdoor Market
Scottsdale, AZ
January 20, 2024
Native Art Market’s Outdoor Market features over 40 Native small businesses and over 400 Native small businesses sharing the space. Native Art Market strives to provide a safe and affordable avenue for Indigenous families to generate significant profits through their art works.
Young Learners’ Series: Native American Jewelry
Florence, AL
January 20, 2024
Join in for a short informational presentation on the art of Native American jewelry making past and present. After the presentation, students will have the opportunity to create their own beaded jewelry to take home or share as part of our youth education exhibit.
Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Pow Wow
New York, NY
January 19-21, 2024
There will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans. Throughout the performance, all elements are explained in depth through detailed introductions by the troupe’s Director and Emcee Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago).
Indigenous Fashion Show Fundraiser
Owasso, OK
January 20, 2024
Join in for a showcase of local Indigenous designers to support two Owasso Natives in their journey to RISE New York Fashion Week! Hosted by comedian Jordan Jayi Makayla Bucktrot and Owasso graduate Kels Cooper are raising money to help cover the professional hair and makeup artists needed for their models, safe and gentle transport of garments, and quality materials from indigenous suppliers.
Keith Secola Concert
Apache Junction, AZ
January 19, 2024
Join in for a special concert with Keith Secola, an icon and ambassador of Native American music. Secola is an accomplished artist, garnering awards and accolades as a musician, a singer, a songwriter, a composer and a producer. The Superstition Mountain Museum is hosting this concert as a fundraiser and an introduction to its 2024 Native American Arts Festival which opens January 20 at 9:00 a.m.
Caddo Artist Series Workshop: Comic Creation Basics
Alto, TX
January 20, 2024
Caddo Mounds presents the “Creating Comics Basics” workshop with artist Michael Sheyahshe, a Caddo sequential artist and author. Michael is an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation and the author of the book “Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study.” Michael will offer a hands-on workshop in which you will learn to create comics as a form of self-expression starting at 10 am until 2 pm.
Oyate Film: Human Rights and Environmental Justice
Santa Cruz, CA
January 20, 2024
Join in for the Oyate Film Screening: Human Rights and Environmental Justice, & Indigenous Activism. In 2016, the world turned its eyes to the people of Standing Rock as they formed a coalition of unprecedented magnitude to defend their land and water from the threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline. An inflection point for human rights and environmental justice, the #NoDAPL struggle became a rallying cry for Indigenous people everywhere to take a stand against the myriad injustices committed against them for centuries.
Evening of Native American Flute: Al Striplen
Roseville, CA
January 20, 2024
Enjoy an evening filled with music, poetry, and story with author and musician Al Striplen. This event will highlight Al’s intuitive playing style of Native American flute and new artwork and poetry. Al will also explore the history of the flute in Native American culture. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the program starts at 7 pm. This is a free program.
4th Annual Bear Moon Pow Wow
Franklin, WI
January 27, 2024
All are welcome to attend the 4th Annual Bear Moon Pow Wow, which is a traditional pow wow held at the Indian Community School. Grand entries are 12 pm and 7 pm. Dance specials will take place during the evening session. Honorariums for dancers in full regalia who dance their exhibition.
Opening Reception: Native American in Translation
Chicago, IL
January 25, 2024
Come join for the opening reception for Native America: In Translation, which brings together the works of nine Native artists who explore aspects of community, heritage, and the legacy of colonialism on the North American continent. By posing challenging questions about land rights, identity, and the legacy of violence toward Native people perpetrated by settler governments, the artists probe the fraught history of photography in representing Indigenous populations.
More Stories Like This
“Reservation Dogs” to be Specially Featured at South by Southwest® 2024
North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame Announces 2024 Inductees, Banquet
Here’s What’s Going in Indian Country, January 12—18
New Book Illuminates the Untold Story of the Ho-Chunk Exile in Minnesota
Native Perspective. Native Voices. Native News.
We launched Native News Online because the mainstream media often overlooks news that is important is Native people. We believe that everyone in Indian Country deserves equal access to news and commentary pertaining to them, their relatives and their communities. That’s why the story you’ve just finished was free — and we want to keep it that way, for all readers. We hope you’ll consider making a donation to support our efforts so that we can continue publishing more stories that make a difference to Native people, whether they live on or off the reservation. Your donation will help us keep producing quality journalism and elevating Indigenous voices. Any contribution of any amount — big or small — gives us a better, stronger future and allows us to remain a force for change. Donate to Native News Online today and support independent Indigenous-centered journalism. Thank you.
Sculptors from around the world compete in World Snow Sculpting Championship in Minnesota
The 12 teams have 64 hours to carve their masterpieces before a winner is announced Saturday.
Wedding Week: Finding a photographer
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – A wedding photographer freezes a moment in time so couples can look back and cherish the memories from their wedding day.
Photographer Kaytlin McCoy is the owner of Kaytlin Lane Photography. She has been capturing the special moments in Southwest Virginia and joined Here @ Home with a few tips to help newly-engaged couples find the right photographer for their special day.
You can hear more about her tips in the interview and learn more about her business through her website or social media.
Copyright 2024 WDBJ. All rights reserved.
Buffalo Bills fans create Bills snow sculptures in East Aurora
Portions of Western New York have received significant lake effect snow over the past week and some Buffalo Bills fans decided to get creative with it.
Meet the DC-based photographer shining a light on the beauty of the LGBTQ+ community
This colorful new art exhibit is brightening up Madison Square Park
The clouds of tulle offer a joyful and feminist message.
Photographer brings nature into classrooms
Photographer brings nature into classrooms – via the ceiling – CBS News
Watch CBS News
Be the first to know
Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
Ski jump sculpture returns
BRATTLEBORO — The ski jump sculpture was refurbished and placed back at its spot on Main Street in Brattleboro on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024.
Rive Roshan Leaves Space in Between for Reflection, Rumination
In an age plagued by overshare, few artists are producing works that invite viewers to find introspection rather than a photo opportunity. For Design Miami 2023, Rademakers Gallery presented Rive Roshan’s exhibit The Space in Between, whose solution – while fleeting – now echoes through upcoming shows and current commissions. The Amsterdam-based design duo behind the practice, Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan, argue through pieces from their former installation that experiential art at any scale, and in a variety of contexts, is transformational.
The Space in Between Table
Color Shift Panels Nude, Sunstone, and Citrine
And the art of thinking couldn’t come at a better time. “We see that there is a lot of misinformation and that people are very quick to base their judgment on whichever input passes by. We want to stimulate people to trust their intuition and their internal motivations,” Rive Roshan says. “The Space in Between was designed to do this, to bring people from various viewpoints and ideas together and let them pause for a moment and reflect. We hope that this helps us all to reconnect.”
Vessel 3
Space in Between Table and Vessel 3
The objects, meticulously designed, consider the interplay of light, movement, reflection, and perception – all with the goal of stimulating the senses and engaging passersby. The dimensional tables include the show’s proprietary Space in Between Table – aptly named for the tension created in the pair’s contrast and relative placement – and the Rise table, employ a reflective, vibrant, textured glass that diffuses colored light with the effect of rippling water. Similarly are the Polarity Panels, a series of split-textured glass compositions nuanced in their duality. A line divides two richly tactile and colored components, while simultaneously being united as one holistic circle. The Color Shift Panels share a similar reflective, fluted glass but span across oblong shapes with a shifting color field in a radial gradient. The Shift Wall Light, however, takes all of those devices and repackages them into a tall, rectangular, wall-mounted luminaire, whose atmospheric effects are activated by electricity.
Side Table 1, V3 Vessel 3, and Polarity Panel 3
Grounding some of the more atmospheric elements is the Voices collection – a series of 3D-printed sand vessels that marry natural materials with technological innovation. The undulating, ribbed edges evoke imagery of the Japanese kirigami paper sculpture method, or an Iris van Herpen garment mid-pirouette. The very physical folds are an homage, an echo of voices from Iranian women calling for freedom. In addition are the Pebble Stool and Sand in Motion Pleat Side Table, two bronze artifacts that distill characteristics from Voices and present them in contrasting yet corresponding forms. Each permutation of pieces from The Space in Between creates a dialogue between the furnishings themselves and those whose eyes they catch.
Voices Vessels
As they wrap up one fair and prepare for the next, a smattering of their furnishings are being integrated into bespoke interior installations including a full wall-filling color shift installation at Penn1, a large development project in Manhattan, and a custom commission for an American corporate headquarters abroad. “Incorporating these moments into daily life – such as interior spaces, public spaces or institutions – we have the opportunity to connect with others and if that moment of connection sparks joy or evokes empathy then that is what we hope to have achieved.” Rive Roshan continues. “Through our work we aim to design objects and spaces that influence the mind – we have seen and learned that this is necessary, you do not just design the functionality of an object or a place but you design the influence it has on one’s current state in a moment of experience.”
Polarity Panel 2 and Soft Bronze Stool
Golnar Roshan and Ruben de la Rive Box, the designers behind the artistic practice Rive Roshan
Golnar Roshan and Ruben de la Rive Box, the designers behind the artistic practice Rive Roshan
For more information about The Space in Between, head to Rive Roshan’s site here.
