“There are references to places in the exhibition – a hogan, iconic earthworks, specific landforms,” says Mario Caro, IAIA Director of MFA in Studio Arts. “But the students are also identifying their cohort and themselves as gathering places – for ideas, experiences and histories that flow out into discrete material vessels and sprawling installations."
We’ve Been Gathering Places is a culmination and celebration of two years of rigorous studies by the Institute of American Indian Arts 2024 Masters in Studio Arts graduating cohort. Comprised of suspended installations, large-scale wall sculptures, paintings, photographs, multichannel new media works, and interactive displays, We've Been Gathering Places turns form & concept's 10,000 square-foot exhibition space into eight discrete articulations of lived experience.
Featured artists: Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway, Leah Mata, Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, Lozen Haozous, Mekko Harjo, Kéyah Henry, Graci Horne, & Daisy Trudell-Mills.