In our Own Words: Native Impressions

2016

Set of 12 reduction woodcut (Daniel Heyman) and 12 letterpress (Lucy Ganje) on handmade Okawara paper, 26.5 x 19.5 inches each

The portraits below were made as part of a collaboration project between the Native American communities of North Dakota, letter press artist Lucy Ganje, and master printer Kim Fink with support from the University of North Dakota, Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design and UND American Indian Center.

In our Own Words, Native Impressions: When You're Given Language, 2015
“When You’re Given Language”
“We Don’t Buy Green Bananas”
“We Burn All Their Things”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: We Are Only Remnants, 2015
“We Are Only Remnants”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: They Unearthed 7 Bodies, 2015
“They Unearthed 7 Bodies”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: That Place Doesn't Exist Anymore, 2015
“That Place Doesn’t Exist Anymore”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: My Parents Had No Parenting, 2015
“My Parents Had No Parenting”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: My Grandparents Would Speak Dakota, 2015
“My Grandparents Would Speak Dakota”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: It Helped Us to Breathe, 2015
“It Helped Us to Breathe”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: If Your Telephone Rings, 2015.
“If Your Telephone Rings”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: If We Could Just Grow Our Own Food, 2015
“If We Could Just Grow Our Own Food”
In our Own Words, Native Impressions: When I Was President, 2015
“When I Was President”

Partial Exhibition History

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
March – April, 2016
Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions

Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island
September 10 – November 5, 2016
Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 30 – September 2016
Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art
and Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art
Happiness, Liberty, Life? American Art and Politics

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,Virginia
August 2017 – February 2018
(Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje – title tbd)
Michael C. Taylor, Chief Curator and Deputy Director
Dr. Johanna Minich, Consulting Curator for Native American Art
A companion exhibition to Hear My Voice: Native Art of the Past and Present

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
May 30 – November 25, 2018
Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions

LIVRE DE LUXE EDITION numbered I-IX to IX-IX printed on handmade mulberry and North Dakota native milkweed paper by Nicole Donnelly.

PORTFOLIO 2 EDITION numbered 1-16 to 16-16 on 100% mulberry Okayama paper.

DANIEL HEYMAN and LUCY GANJE
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions 2015-2016


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