Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures

Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures
Aug. 28 – Opening Reception 6:30-8 p.m. @ CRC

Do You Remember When? is Postcommodity’s site-specific installation and intervention that makes up the first part of the Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures project spanning the fall 2009 season at the CRC. A blessing will beperformed at 7 p.m. to honor Indigenous/non-Indigenous collaboration and cooperation for a sustainable future.

Organized by curator Peter Held, Native Confluence speaks to a native worldview in terms of inter-generational methods of practicing sustainability. The approach to organic materials and tools from ancestral traditions allows new doors to open. Holistic in its outlook, the idea of sustainability is consciousness about the whole – whole community, world and self.

Aug. 24-29:
Postcommodity residency-installation project opens to the public Aug. 29

Sept. 21-25:
Nora Naranjo Morse residency

Oct. 9:
Defining Sustainability season opening reception 7-9 p.m.

Nov. 9-14:
Athena & Bill Steen residency, in conjunction with the Greenbuild International Conference (tours at museum on Friday)

Events are free and open to everyone.

Defining Sustainability at the ASU Art Museum was co-organized by School of Sustainability, the Global Institute of Sustainability and its School of Sustainability, ASU; School of Art and School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU; School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and American Indian Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU; and ASU Institute for Humanities Research.

Projects and exhibitions supported by Helme Prinzen Endowment, Evelyn Smith Family Exhibition Fund, The FUNd at the ASU Art Museum, ASU Art Museum Advisory Board, Joseph Dung Ceramics Initiative, EDAW/AECOM, Arizona Humanities Council, Pyramid Developers, O Premium Waters, Whole Foods and SRP.

Educational programs sponsored by the Jean Strange Memorial Fund, the Red and Alva Foundation, the family of Jan Fisher and the Scottsdale League for the Arts.

We look forward to having you join us!