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In Conversation: Sarah Sense and Marina Tyquiengco
November 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
You аre invited to join Indigenous lens-based artist Sarah Sense, and Marina Tyquiengco, the Ellyn McColgan Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for this virtual event on November 27, 2023 starting at 7pm, via Zoom, at the Griffin Museum of Photography.
This discussion will kick off a virtual exhibition of the artist’s recent work Hinushi, and will explore her creative process. Sense utilizes techniques typically found in traditional Chitimacha and Choctaw basket weaving and modernizes them to create two-and three-dimensional woven pieces using her own photographs and ancestral designs to create tribal patterns.
Sarah Sense’s work comments on stereotypes in popular culture; tells stories of colonialism, resistance, and resilience; re-indigenize landscapes; and explores identity and family history. Sense cuts materials such as her own landscape photography, images of Hollywood posters, family photos, maps, and manuscripts and reassembles the imagery. She has travelled through the Americas, Europe, and Southeast Asia, inspiring her interest and research in Indigenous arts and histories.
This event will be the first of a series designed for those interested in learning more about art and engaging with the key issues of our time.
About the Artist:
Sarah Sense (b. 1980) lives and works in California. Sense has traveled extensively through the Americas, Europe, United Kingdom and Southeast Asia. Her landscape photography is an essential part of her travel and visual art practice. Sense’s weaving practice began in New York while a master’s student at Parson New School for Design (2003-2005). While director and curator of the American Indian Community House Gallery, New York, Sense catalogued the gallery’s thirty-year history, inspiring her search for Indigenous art internationally. Her world travels were charged with archive research, photo-weaving project that expanded to community programming, international Indigenous artist interviews and the book, Weaving the Americas, A Search for Indigenous Art in the Western Hemisphere. Sarah Sense
About the Curator:
Marina Tyquiengco is the inaugural Ellyn McColgan Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A CHamoru scholar of global Indigenous art with an emphasis on Indigenous Australian and North American art, she has previously taught at Brown University. She has published articles in Feminist Studies and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association as well as reviews for First American Art Magazine. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh. Marina Tyquiengco
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