Museums present A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), Ulnigid, 2020, letterpress (photopolymer and Bembo & Cherokee Syllabary metal type) printed on handmade & color plan paper with paperweaving, closed: 11 × 11 ¼ inches, assembled: 23 ½ × 11 ¼ × 5 ⁵⁄₈ inches. Courtesy the Artist. © Rhiannon Skye Tafoya, image Rhiannon Skye Tafoya.
ASHEVILLE, NC
.- A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art features over 50 works of art in a variety of media by 30+ Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation artists. The exhibition highlights the use of the written Cherokee language, a syllabary developed by Cherokee innovator Sequoyah (circa 17761843). Cherokee syllabary is frequently found in the work of Cherokee artists as a compositional element or the subject matter of the work itself. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, NC
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Asheville Art Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian present A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art
Exhibition on view beginning June 12, 2021 at the Museum of Cherokee Indian
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Exhibition on view beginning June 12, 2021 at the Museum of Cherokee Indian
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Asheville Art Museum
A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art features over 50 works of art in a variety of media by 30+ Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation artists. The exhibition highlights the use of the written Cherokee language, a syllabary developed by Cherokee innovator Sequoyah (circa 1776–1843). Cherokee syllabary is frequently found in the work of Cherokee artists as a compositional element or the subject matter of the work itself. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina from June 12, 2021 to October 31, 2021, and in the Asheville Art Museum’s Appleby Foundation Exhibition
Museum Of International Folk Art Hosts ‘#Mask: Creative Responses To Global Pandemic’, Waives Admission Today - 6:49 am
Bill Mendoza (Oglala Lakota/Sicangu Lakota), dentalium and quilled mask, 2020, quillwork, dentalium, braintanned leather. Courtesy/MOIFA
Pilar Agoyo (Ohkay Owingeh/Cochiti/Kewa Pueblos), Bread is Life, 2020, blue bird cotton flour sack, swarovski crystals, rayon and grosgrain ribbons. Courtesy/MOIFA
MOIFA News:
If you want to be one of the first people to view a new exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA), here is your chance to see it for free!
“#Mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic” will be open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, May 30, and MOIFA is waiving admission fees.
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America Meredith, publishing editor at First American Art Museum, presented on Cherokee women reclaiming their stories during the 48th annual Symposium on the American Indian at Northeastern State University.
Dr. Jacquetta Shade-Johnson
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America Meredith, publishing editor at First American Art Museum, presented on Cherokee women reclaiming their stories during the 48th annual Symposium on the American Indian at Northeastern State University.
Dr. Jacquetta Shade-Johnson
TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma â Cherokee women tell their stories to a national audience and in the home. These stories are public as works of art, as private as passing skills on from mother to daughter.
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