Gallery Viewing
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Date: May 8 - June 30, 2023 (M-F)
Time: 10 am - 5 pm Location: 212 W 2nd Street, Duluth, MN (enter through 202 doors) |
AICHO uses the gallery space as a meeting and gathering space. If you plan to visit the gallery, we advise you to call the AICHO front desk to see if the gallery space is available for viewing. (218) 722-7225
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About the Exhibition |
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AICHO Galleries is honored to bring together acrylic paintings and textile arts by contemporary artist Kent Estey, a White Earth of Ojibwe tribal member, and textile artist Ramona Morrow, a Lac Courte Oreilles tribal member and Yankton Sioux descendant in the group art exhibition “Birchbark & Cattails: An Homage to Land that Creates Art.” This art exhibition celebrates the multiplicity of gifts nature gives including inspirations and mediums for art through generations.
Funded in part by The McKnight Foundation. 
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About the Artists |
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Kent Estey is a contemporary artist and proud tribal member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe in Northwestern Minnesota with a special interest in sky and landscape paintings. Estey’s paintings are typically more non-representational and abstract in nature with vibrant colors and textures that capture movement. He uses a variety of mediums in his paintings, including acrylics, oil, and inks, and his recent works feature stone, copper, and other metals. Estey captures and honors his Ojibwe heritage through his art. Hs is drawn to earth-tones with deep shares of blue, brown, and red. His inspirations come from nature, his woodland home, and oftentimes, his feelings and emotions are what are expressed on canvas and paper.
Estey’s “Gakina gaa miiinigoowiziyang: Everything That We Are Gifted” is a collection of paintings that celebrate the gifts of nature. In this collection, Estey pays homage to the wooded property in Naytahwaush that has been his home for 62 years. His tie to this land, and acknowledges how it is integral to his identity as a community member, educator, and artist. He recognizes the land is a spiritual place that has provided food, shelter, a livelihood, and now the never-ending inspiration for his art. “Naytahwaush may not mean much to others outside of the reservation, but to me, it is a spiritual place that speaks to the beauty of the place. All I need to do is walk out my front door, peer in the sky, or glance in the woods to be inspired. I've learned to listen and trust that inner voice that says, ‘this needs to be painted.’ This piece of sky, this peace of the forest, and this light on the water need to be remembered and honored.” |
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Ramona Morrow is an Indigenous artist and educator, whose work is inspired by traditional Ojibwe and Yankton textile and visual arts. She is a Lac Courte Oreilles tribal member and descendant of Yankton Sioux. She teaches Native American history, beading and traditional Native techniques.
At this exhibition, Morrow is showcasing her newest additions to The Cattail Collection of Native American dolls made of dyed muslin, buckskin and seed beads, and stuffed with cattail fluff. Her beadwork on display includes her Ojibwe florals and geometrical Yankton beadwork. Other works of art include pictorials painted with acrylics on buckskin hung on driftwood, ledger art created with colored pencil, wood carving pictures, and Ojibwe bandolier bags. 
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