THURSDAY APRIL 16TH | 5PM
RKC BITO
AUDITORIUM
A presentation about the curation process around her exhibition, People of the Waters That Are Never Still: A Celebration of Mohican Art and Culture, and the connection with Aupaumut’s artwork.
Tamara Aupaumut is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. She descends from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Oneida Nation, and is Pequot, Nehantic, and Montaukett through the Brothertown Indian
Her main focus is as a painter and sculptor, working in oil, acrylic, gouache, mixed media, printmaking, photography, papier-mache, and tiber, as well as traditional Native disciplines of beadwork, porcupine quillwork, and birchbark.
Aupaumut’s artwork has been exhibited at All My Relations Arts and the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, regionally in the Midwest at the Watermark Art Center and Plains Art Museum, and in New York at the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.