Date/Time
Date(s) - August 29, 2024 - December 15, 2024
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location
Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, University Center for the Arts
3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations
The Griffin Foundation Gallery: August 29 to December 15, 2024
Blessing Ceremony & Opening Reception: August 29, 4 to 6 p.m.
Read the exhibition texts and labels here!
3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations is the first exhibition at Colorado State University dedicated to artists of the Hinonoʼeino’ (Arapaho) and Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) Nations, whose homelands in Colorado formed much of the land grant that founded Colorado State University.*
The exhibition features Cheyenne and Arapaho art from the nineteenth century to today and probes the relationship between CSU’s founding in 1870 and the violent removal of Cheyenne and Arapaho people from Colorado. Featured contemporary artists include Colleen Friday, Bruce A. Cook III, George Curtis Levi, Eugene Ridgely Jr., Max Bear, Halcyon Grace Levi, Heather Levi, and Aloysius Hubbard.
3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse is co-curated by Bruce A. Cook III (Haida/Northern Arapaho descent) from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, George Curtis Levi (Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho) of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and Emily Moore, Associate Curator of North American Art at GAMA. Students enrolled in Moore’s Fall 2023 art history seminar also aided in exhibition development, with the guidance of the co-curators and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
*We acknowledge many other Indigenous Nations who call Colorado home, especially the Ute, whose homelands were also sold to benefit CSU. For this exhibition, we are focusing on the Cheyenne and Arapaho because of their long-standing alliance and their shared treaty history on Colorado’s Front Range.
Read the exhibition texts and labels here!
Learn how to pronounce the Arapaho word for Rocky Mountains, 3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ, shared by Andy Cowell of the Arapaho Language Project at University of Colorado, Boulder:
Learn how to pronounce the Cheyenne word for Rocky Mountains, /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse, shared by co-curator and artist George Curtis Levi (Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho):
Watch GAMA & DMNS staff assemble a Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) Xamaevee’e (Tipi) on loan from Denver Museum of Nature and Science with the guidance and help of Bill, Clark, and Keith Tallbull:
Can’t visit the exhibition in person? View exhibition texts and labels here!
SUPPORT
This exhibition and its related publication are made possible through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Critical funding is also provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the City of Fort Collins Fort Fund and the FUNd Endowment at CSU.
Related programs are made possible by in-kind support from the Elizabeth Hotel, and generous funding from DATA: Denver Art Alumni Transforming the Arts for Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at CSU.
This project was made possible, in part, through a grant from the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, which works to enhance cultural development and the arts at Colorado State University. This fund benefits from the generous support of all those who love the arts. https://president.colostate.edu/lilla-b-morgan-endowment/.
Ongoing support for GAMA is also provided by Colorado Creative Industries. CCI and its activities are made possible through an annual appropriation from the Colorado General Assembly and federal funds from the National Endowment for the arts.
Bookings
This event is fully booked.