Native Skywatchers - Earth Sky Connections

Arts Tour - 2018 - Traveling Exhibit

"NATIVE SKYWATCHERS – EARTH SKY CONNECTIONS - EXHIBIT”

... an inspiring visual arts exhibit featuring work by a collaborative team of professional and community Native and non-Native artists. A multimedia exhibit motivated by a human connection to the cosmos, engaging the community in compelling, relationship-based approaches.

After two very successful Arts Learning grants in 2015 and 2017, Native Skywatchers was awarded the MN State Arts Board Arts Touring grant. “Native Skywatchers - Earth Sky Connections” Touring Exhibit was a great opportunity to showcase our Indigenous-led relationship to Sky and Earth in a traveling exhibit at eight venues across northern, central, and southern Minnesota with additional hands-on learning workshops!

Exhibit partners:

All My Relations Art Gallery, Mpls.
Perpich Center for the Arts, Mpls.
Watermark Art Center - Miikanan Gallery, northern MN, Bemidji
Goodhue Historical Society, southern MN, Red Wing
Lyric Center for the Arts-First Stage Gallery, northern MN, Anoka
Mille Lacs Indian Museum, central MN, Onamia
Two Rivers Gallery - Mpls. Am. Ind. Center
Paramount Center for the Arts - all three galleries, central MN, St. Cloud

Community of Artists:

Annette S. Lee (curator & artist)
William Wilson (elder)
Carl Gawboy (elder)
Jeffrey Tibbetts
Anne Meyer
Leah Yellowbird
Elizabeth LaPensee
Linda Reba
Kathy McTavish
Chholing Taha
Ian Bernik
Sheila Jackson
Judy Pamp
Nathan Quigno
Anna Fellegy
Jessica Heim
Tonya Kjerland
Cayanne Kjerland
Karen Savage-Blue
Wendy Savage
Jonathan Thunder
Lyz Jaakol
Vern Northup
Celia Rodriguez
... and Community Member Participants from the Arts Learning Workshop 2015!
... and Community Member Participants from the Arts Learning Workshop 2017!

"Native Skywatchers - Earth Sky Connections - Touring Exhibit 2018"

“Arts Tour Minnesota is a program designed to provide Minnesotans greater access to high quality arts activities regardless of geographic location.... At its core, this program strives to connect Minnesota audiences with artists and artistic works to which they would not otherwise have access.” – Minnesota State Arts Board

FUNDED BY THE MN STATE ARTS BOARD ARTS TOUR MN GRANT FY2017

Project Overview

Project Lead Team: Annette S. Lee (PI), William Wilson (elder), Carl Gawboy (elder), Jeffrey Tibbetts

Timeline: June 1, 2017 - June 31, 2018

Locations: Traveling Exhibit. Eight venues located throughout Northern, Central, and Southern Minnesota.

Funded by: Minnesota State Arts Board.

Youth Participants - Directly Involved: 963

Adult Participants - Directly Involved: 6420

Electronic Audience: 120000

Miigwech, Pilamayaye This project made possible by the: Minnesota State Arts Board

Native Skywatchers
P: (612)-314-9717

Contact Us
nativeskywatchers@gmail.com

Art website visit
annettelee.com

Acknowledgement: Native Skywatchers is located on the traditional and treaty land of the Dakota people, who along with the Ojibwe are the Indigenous peoples of this land, Mni Sota Makoce or Minnesota.