Celebrating First Peoples Week!
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Charlene Teter's Way of Sorrows | Design by
Ryan RedCorn
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Monday, October 5 — Saturday, October 10
7 live events.
1 immersive virtual
exhibition.
11 mixed-media artists.
Everything FREE to
access with RSVP.
You're invited to join a wide-ranging and exciting week of
live art, storytelling and conversation led by Indigenous and Native
American artists, historians, journalists and community leaders.
Together, we'll bridge the past, enlighten the present and
celebrate our shared humanity.
Featured panelists and
contributors include:
- American Indian Community House
- This Land (Crooked Media) podcast
host Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee)
- Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), the first-ever
full-time curator of Native American Art at The Met
- Billions actor Tanis Parenteau
(Cree)
- The Lenape Center
- Folk singer and musician Samantha Crain (Choctaw), hailed by the New York Times as a
“promising young storyteller”
- Korina Emmerich (Pullayup), EMME fashion
designer and Project
Runway contestant
- Walter Scott (Kahnawake Mohawk), author of
the “Wendy”
comic series, of which The
New Yorker said “his mastery of his characters’ faces and
gestures is...wonderful, his line quick and sure and expressive”
- Charlene Teters (Spokane), activist and
first Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History
- And many others!
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Here's a preview of
the online exhibition, "As Wide As the
Sky," launching Monday, Oct 5!  |
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"As Wide As the
Sky" is curated by artist and educator Maria Hupfield.
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"New York
City is home to more Native people than any other U.S. city, but Native
histories, concerns, and cultural impacts go largely unacknowledged
here. First Peoples Week is a multimedia space for Native artists
and thinkers to share their work, tell stories about their vibrant
cultures, and lead conversations that reckon with our past and
envision a different future.
This festival embodies the mission of The Greene Space to make live art
and journalism by and for all New Yorkers eager to join us in creating a
stronger, more beautiful and equitable world.”
— Jennifer Sendrow
Executive
Producer, The Greene Space RSVP
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The Greene Space
would like to acknowledge that we are on Lenapehoking, the traditional
and unceded land of the Lenape People, past and present. We honor with
gratitude the land itself and the Lenape, who continue to honor and bring
to light their heritage and contributions.
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