The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) is opening two new exhibitions opening Aug. 9.
“Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA” will be in the Artists Circle Gallery, and “Art Through Struggle Gallery, Indigenous Freeways: Southwest Wildstyle from North to South” is a mural installation by the Arrowsoul Art Collective.
According to the IPCC, both exhibitions share new stories of the centrality of Pueblo architectural designs to Pueblo art.
“Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA” showcases the work of two artists creating architecturally-inspired expressions in materials that respond to the senses.
Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee/Santa Clara Pueblo) weaves paper structures and embeds knowledge in them through her printmaking processes. SABA (Diné/Pueblo of Jemez) makes paintings and prints that anchor Pueblo architecture as evolving sites of home.
SABA is also a lead artist for the exhibition “Indigenous Freeways: Southwest Wildstyle from North to South,” a new mural installation by the Arrowsoul Art Collective.
The series of four paintings fuses concepts of the beginning, present and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. In the Southwest region, pictographs are painted visual forms on ancestral rocks, often as pigment on basalt.
The Chamber congratulates the IPCC on the two exhibits that help define culture through art.
The joint reception for both exhibitions will be from 4-8 p.m. Sept. 6 in the IPCC courtyard. This is a free, child-friendly event.