Included with museum admission.
“I use my work to explore adaptation, resilience, survival, active cultural amnesia, dream, memory, cultural resurgence, connection to and disconnection from the land.” —Nicholas Galanin
Multi-disciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979; Lingít/Unangax̂) engages contemporary culture from his perspective as a mixed ancestry artist rooted in connection to land and the complexities of Indigenous identity. His work is inherently political, generous, unflinching, and poetic.
Join us to hear Galanin as he discusses his creative process, and how his work interconnects past, present and future to expose intentionally obscured collective memory and barriers to the acquisition of Indigenous knowledge.
This program is offered in partnership with RIT City Art Space, where Galanin’s work I Think It Goes Like This (Gold) will be on view October 6, 2023–February 18, 2024. Generous support for this project is provided by Art Bridges, in partnership with RIT City Art Space and the RIT Museum Studies Program.
Included with general museum admission. Special registration not required.
Nicholas Galanin apprenticed with master carvers, earned his BFA in Jewelry Design at London Guildhall University in England, and his MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts at Massey University in New Zealand. His work is exhibited worldwide, and is in numerous public and private collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM), Zürich, Switzerland, to name a few. He lives and works in Sitka, Alaska.