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Date: Saturday, August 5
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Location: 212 W 2nd Street, Duluth, MN (enter through 202 doors) |
Date: August 4 - September 29 (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 & 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 pleased to announce our newest exhibition featuring digital artwork & poetry by Tashia Hart, Red Lake Ojibwe tribal member, beadwork by Chenoa Williams, Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal member, and canvases by Sam Zimmerman, Grand Portage Ojibwe Direct Descendant.
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About the Artists |
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Tashia Hart's Love Poems for a Well-fed Heart is a collection of literary works and digital images that explores love and food. The poems incorporate words in Anishinaabemowin.
Hart is an award-winning author, illustrator, and artist from the Red Lake Nation of Anishinaabeg in northern Minnesota. Works include the contemporary romance, Native Love Jams (Not Too Far Removed Press, 2023), The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Preparing Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021), the middle grade illustrated book Gidjie and the Wolves (Not Too Far Removed Press, 2020), and Girl Unreserved (2015). She’s the illustrator of 3 books in the Minnesota Native American Lives series (Wise Ink Creative Publishing, 2020), and her short works include recipes, essays, poetry, and short stories for various publications. In addition to writing, her beading journey began 35 years ago and since then, her beadwork has been included in group art exhibits in Bemidji and Duluth, MN. She lives in Duluth, MN with her husband, son, and a turtle. |
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Chenoa Williams uses modern mediums like glass beads, nylon thread, crystals, and one traditional medium, buckskin, to create her art. Her work is inspired by anomalies (aliens), geometric designs, sci-fi, technology, arcane, death and with a fun and carefree spin with her bead plate template. Williams states, “I love beadwork. The tiny sparkling beads remind me of both the past and the future.” Williams’ style is pan-contemporary. “I don’t like to limit what I do, and in many ways I am constantly reinventing my work through my environment and experiences. I think of beadwork artists as honoring traditions while creating a bridge for future artists. It's all about self expression.”
Chenoa Williams is self-taught pan contemporary Afro/Indigenous bead artist. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe from Nixon, Nevada. She is the CEO of Aonech Aonech - an arts business that she developed in 20XX. She sells her beadwork, soaps, lotions, lip balms, and more that she creates. Chenoa has spent the past 15+ years working on learning different techniques, and using materials to make clutches, bracelets/cuffs, earrings, necklaces, and medallions from her live/work studio in Duluth. |
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Sam Zimmerman's artwork captures his experiences in nature as a way to share with other while celebrating the natureal beauty of the North Shores of Gitchi Gami. Through this collection, Zimmerman shares memories and stories through exploring different formats and mediums.
After twenty years working in public education, Zimmerman returned home to Minnesota. With this relocation from the East Coast, he rededicated himself to his painting with a ferocity that had been absent since his earlier studio days. His work explores his Ojibwe heritage, his learnings and experiences in nature upon his return to the Grand Portage reservation while preserving shared oral histories, reimagining the symbolism of the clan animals while incorporating the natural landscape of Lake Superior's North Shore. Zimmerman focuses on continuing the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling embedding the themes of environmental stewardship and conservation of the North Shore through his studio and public art commissions. He has completed public art pieces for the Grand Portage tribal nation, Chik Wauk Museum and Nature Center, Voyageur National Park, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and the Duluth and Grand Marais communities as a means to celebrate Ojibwe culture and language. He has been the recipient of grant awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Northland Foundation Maada’ookiing, and Duluth Superior Community Foundation. |
Zimmerman has illustrated a number of bilingual children's books. His most recent art coffee table bilingual coffee table book is a collection of paintings and stories from his first year of creating along the northern shore of Lake Superior, titled: Following My Spirit Home, published by Blackbear and Blueberries Publishing in April 2022. Following My Spirit Home was named a silver finalist for a Midwest Book Awards in June 2023. The Minnesota Historical Society press reprinted Following My Spirit Home as a new paperback edition in June 2023.
His work can currently be viewed at Lizzards Gallery and Indigenous First Gallery in Duluth, MN, and Joy and Company in Grand Marais, MN and are in both public and private collections in the United States and abroad. |