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Apr
15
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Apr
15
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The Arts :: Art Show
Virtual Artist Talk Featuring Prominent Tlingit Artist Nicholas Galanin
6:00 PM (America/Denver)
Missoula Art Museum
Description:
The Missoula Art Museum invites the public to a free virtual discussion between exhibiting artist Nicholas Galanin and Art Bridges associate curator Ashley Holland on April 15 at 6 PM.

Nicholas Galanin is a Tlingit/Unangax? artist whose work offers perspective rooted in connection to land and broad engagement with contemporary culture. Galanin’s works are vessels of knowledge, culture, and technology and are inherently political, generous, unflinching, and poetic. He employs diverse materials and processes to expand and forward dialogue on what artistic production is and how it can be used to envision possibility. Galanin allows his concepts to determine his materials and processes. His practice is expansive and includes numerous collaborations with visual and recording artists. His 2019 piece, I Think It Goes Like This (Gold) is on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation and is on view at MAM this spring. He lives and works in Sitka, Alaska. Galanin is a prolific artist whose work spans wooden sculpture, music, mixed media, paintings, prints, and more.

His most recent on-site installation, entitled Indian Land, has received critical acclaim. Indian Land is a 44-foot-tall sign which references the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles and is on-location as part of the Desert X biennial, an art festival in the Coachella Valley in Palm Springs, California. The piece is accompanied by a GoFundMe launched by the artist related to the LandBack movement. Galanin writes that: “All funds raised will go towards repatriating land back to Indigenous communities and to support the LandBack movement, to continue the acquisition of land titles for Indigenous nations to have legal standing under U.S.law to protect traditional territories. The LandBack movement is a regenerative, sustainable effort to center Indigenous knowledge and repair damages done to land and all people living here. The impacts of invasion, colonization, settlement and forced assimilation continue to have multi-generational impact upon us all.”

I Think It Goes Like This (Gold) is on view through April 24, 2021 in the Lynda M. Frost Gallery for Contemporary American Indian Art. MAM is free to the public and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM. The museum is located at 335 N. Pattee St. Missoula, Montana.



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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Missoula Art Museum
Address: 335 North Pattee Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 728-0447

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