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Indigenous Reality

Indigenous Reality

Date2020
DimensionsOverall: 73 1/2 × 51 × 3/4 in. (186.7 × 129.5 × 1.9 cm) Other (see description): 41 × 32 1/2 × 1/4 in. (104.1 × 82.6 × 0.6 cm)
Object numberN0010.2021
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase.
Label TextCarla Hemlock is a contemporary Native artist whose work explores environmental justice, violence against Native women, and tribal sovereignty. In Indigenous Reality Hemlock beaded words associated with the issues faced by Native peoples surrounded by the words “Indigenous” and “reality.” At the bottom of the quilt Hemlock directly asks the view “when does it stop,” referring to violence and racism directed at Indigenous communities. Hemlock finishes the quilt with words of hope beaded on the quilt’s corners.
Exhibition History"0’nigoe:yo:h:h: Thinking In Indian", University of Buffalo Art Gallery, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 16, 2022 - October 2, 2022.

"As They Saw It: Women Artists Then & Now," Springfield Museums, Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, October 14, 2023 - January 14, 2024; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, April 1, 2024 - September 2, 2024.
On View
Not on view
Earl of Surrey
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1829-1837
Moccasins
Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
c. 1840
Jug
Thomas W. Commeraw
1797-1819
Dove
Unidentified Artist
1875-1900
Bag
Anishinaabe (Ojibwa)
c. 1900
Violin Case
Brule Sioux (Lakota)
1899
Bandolier Bag
Seminole
c. 1830
Camel Rider
Bessie Harvey
1992
Basket
Chilcotin
c. 1880-1890
Pipe
Inuit
ca. 1910
Bag
Mesquakie (Sauk and Fox)
1870-1880
Bag
Red River Metis
c. 1820

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