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According to 2019 census data estimates, more than 3,000 urban Natives live in the place we now call Omaha. Unceded Artist Collective wants to hear from them all. Their first exhibition, The People, The Human Beings, on view at Generator Space until June 25th uses exhibition making as a platform to forge kinships, community, and collective power by creating and holding space for urban Native positionality and sovereign identity.
On Thursday, June 24th at 7pm, collective members will come together to celebrate the closing of the exhibition with a virtual discussion that shines a light on individual members’ practices, the power of working collectively, and how Omaha’s cultural sector can offer meaningful support Native and Indigenous artists and culture bearers.
Join the conversation on Thursday, June 24th at 7pm by registering here. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the discussion on Zoom after registering. And don’t forget to visit The People, The Human Beings at Generator Space (1804 Vinton St, Omaha, NE) before the exhibition closes on June 25th.
Open invitation from Unceded Artist Collective:
We would love to hear from any artist or cultural practitioner who identifies as Native American, Alaskan Native, or Indigenous interested in working collectively with other Native artists in the Omaha Metro. Click here, or email Nate Ruleaux (naruleaux@gmail.com), to fill out a short survey and tell us more about yourself and what you do, join the collective, or have a conversation about arts and culture in Omaha.
About The People, The Human Beings
The People, The Human Beings, organized by Unceded Artist Collective, approaches exhibition making as an invitation; a position from which to forge kinships, community, and collective power. Nathaniel Ruleaux, Sarah Rowe, and Steve Tamayo, come together to reconstitute and affirm a multiplicity of Native identities through large scale painting, photographic works, installation, and a collective practice of world building that gestures toward expanding Unceded Artist Collective’s membership. In opening itself up to a wide range of collaborative forms of production, the exhibition’s physical and virtual sites become spaces for organizing, viewing, performing, discussing, surveying, and reimagining what lies ahead.
Exhibition Dates: May 14 - June 25, 2021
Open by appointment. Thursdays and Fridays: 1pm - 5pm
*Due to ongoing COVID-19 related public health concerns, viewings of The People, The Human Beings will be by appointment and limited to small groups of 5 people, or fewer, at a time. Please register here or email peter@amplifyarts.org to schedule a time to visit outside of regular gallery appointment hours. Face masks are required.
About Unceded Artist Collective:
Unceded Artist Collective is a community and directory of Indigenous artists who live and create on the unceded land of the Umónhon & Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (aka the colonized Omaha Metro). While honoring the past and fighting for the future we seek to take, create and indigenize space for our underrepresented and overlooked relatives. With similar organizations across Turtle Island, Unceded Artist Collective was created to focus on our Omaha Metro community, and the talent that has been here and is still here. Wopila.