Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding
November 8 – November 20, 2016
@ Present Box

• Norman Akers 

• Neal Ambrose-Smith

• Maile Andrade

• Corwin Clairmont 

• Joe Feddersen 

• Alexander Swiftwater McCarty

• Tony Ortega 

• Sue Pearson

• Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith

• C. Maxx Stevens

• Glory Tacheenie-Campoy

• Melanie Yazzie

• Kevin Slivka, Project Writer

BMoCA’s Fall 2016 Present Box, Home: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Responding, was a two-week exhibition of contemporary Native American prints organized by Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie and presented in BMoCA’s entrance lounge. For the exhibition, Yazzie invited eleven other Indigenous artists to respond to their idea of “home” through a print exchange. Each artist was asked to make a print measuring 15 × 19 inches or 19 × 15 inches. Together, the 12 prints illuminate the diversity of personal definitions of “home,” and address the theme on many levels. The Indigenous artists gathered in this exhibition demonstrate a Native relationship to home and homeland, enmeshed in a history of defense, sacrifice, resiliency, and redefinition. Yazzie also invited Kevin Slivka, a non-native Indigenous Studies scholar, to contribute an essay about the project as well as a print.

Sponsors: Lovedy Barbatelli, Ann Bateson & Frank Everts, Joan & Steven Markowitz, Gabrielle & Brad Schuller, Michael & Carlyn Smith