Blessing Ceremony and Opening Reception

3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations

Organ Recital Hall, University Center for the Arts: Thursday, August 29 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Join us for a special Blessing Ceremony and Opening Reception for 3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations!

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 artists include Colleen Friday, Aloysius Hubbard, Eugene Ridgely Jr., Bruce A. Cook III, Halcyon Grace Levi, Heather Levi, George Curtis Levi, and Max Bear.

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.

This program is free and open to all. We request RSVPs through the booking form on this page OR through the form on our main exhibition webpage (attendees do not need to sign up on both).

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.

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