Don't Miss Our Bodéwadmi Wisgat Gokpenagen The Black Ash Baskets of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Exhibit!

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Our exhibit closes December 15th, 2019!

LeFevre Art Gallery, LeFevre Hall

The Ohio State University at Newark

Newark, OH 43055

Join us for the opening of a visual journey

 through the history of the Potawatomi people and their art of black ash basket making!

Potawatomi basket making is a reclamation and recovery of a powerful piece of native knowledge and technology and represents a potent counter-colonial and counter-hegemonic act with lasting implications. This exhibit reflects an understanding that objects are not lifeless things that occupy space. They have spirit and meaning. Centered upon intellectual and material property, basket weaving is an opportunity for Native women and men to make their own histories by using the past to ‘read’ the present.

The exhibit is curated by John N. Low, PhD, associate professor in Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University and enrolled citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. He received his PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. His most recent book Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians & the City of Chicago was published by the Michigan State University Press (2016).

Sponsored by grants from the Global Arts & Humanities/ Indigenous Arts & Humanities Initiative, American Indian Studies, the Milliken Fund at The Ohio State University at Newark,

 and the Newark Earthworks Center.

For more information, visit: https://newark.osu.edu/initiatives/outreach/lefevre-art-gallery/ and  https://newark.osu.edu/news/exhibit-opening-the-black-ash-baskets-of-the-potawatomi.html .