Kamen Gallery POP UP EXHIBITION: "Indigenous Dress and Culture"

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LENFEST Outreach & Engagement Series: Kamen Gallery Exhibit

POP UP EXHIBITION

"Indigenous Dress and Culture" Kamen Gallery/Lenfest Hall

September 1-December 23, 2024

Kamen Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 am- 4 pm. Gallery is open during Lenfest performances and when undergraduate classes are in session.

Kamen Gallery is proud to welcome community patrons to the "Indigenous Dress and Culture" pop up exhibit and artistry crafted and shared by Victoria Last Walker Ferguson, a citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation and Elizabeth Wislar, a citizen of the Northern Cherokee Nation. The pop up exhibition pays honor to Lenfest Center's first ever Indigenous-centered and Indigenous-led event October 8, 2024 with Red Sky Performance-a leading company of contemporary Indigenous performance.

The exhibit of traditional and modern-day Monacan regalia features Victoria Ferguson-artist, educator and enrolled citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation. She shares generations of historical and cultural knowledge passed down from her ancestors, the first peoples of the mid-Atlantic region. Each piece was created by Ferguson and is displayed to acknowledge and honor the past, present and future contributions to this area by the Eastern Siouan and Tutelo speaking peoples, among them the Monacan. Clothing options for the Indigenous people of Virginia's interior evolved over the centuries of European occupation and colonization. In the prehistory period, Indigenous people used the natural resources available to construct their clothes. This exhibit includes some examples of the early clothing options made from the inner bark of bass wood trees, hemp fibers dyed with natural colors and brain tanned deer hides.

Also included in the exhibit is a large-scale textile sculpture created by students in the Theater, Dance, and Film Studies Department Costume Shop, under the mentorship of resident Costume Designer and local artist, Elizabeth Wislar.

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