Okizi (To Heal)

On View: February 1 – April 13, 2024
Opening Reception: February 1, 2024, 6-8 pm

Okizi (To Heal) is a partner exhibition with the American Swedish Institute (ASI) in response to the traveling exhibition, Arctic Highways: Unbound Indigenous People. A common theme of these dual exhibitions is the healing impacts of cultural revitalization. While efforts were made to separate Native peoples from their spirituality, language, and cultural knowledge and traditions, Okizi highlights the revitalization efforts that reconnect this generation and future generations to our language, land, and culture as a means of healing from historical and generational trauma.

In collaboration with ASI, All My Relations Arts will host “Mygration,” an immersive, large-scale installation of drawings and prints by Sámi artist Tomas Colbengtson and Swedish artist Stina Folkebrant, alongside invited and juried Native American artists. Additionally, Native artists selected by All My Relations Arts will be showcased at the American Swedish Institute’s Arctic Highways exhibit.

Featured Artists:
Tamara Aupaumut (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican, Oneida, Brothertown), Racquel Banaszak (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe), Keith BraveHeart (Oglala Lakota), Kent Estey (White Earth), Karen Goulet (White Earth Ojibwe), Cynthia Hamilton (Rainy River First Nations), Gidinatiy Hartman (Deg Xit’an Athabascan), Josephine Hoffman (Grand Portage), Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), Courtney Leonard (Shinnecock Nation), Theresa McDowell (Rainy River First Nations), Ayanna Proctor (Piscataway Nation), Abby Sunde (Fond du Lac Ojibwe direct descendant), Delia Touché (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Assiniboine)

Program Dates:
On View: February 1 – April 13, 2024
Opening Reception: February 1, 2024, 6-8 p.m.
ASI First Look Reception: February 2nd, 2024
Additional Programming: TBD