Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is the first exhibition to feature together the work of Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking.
Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other will feature over two dozen mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and large-scale installation works by Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artist’s practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work.
Marie Watt, who resides in Portland, Oregon, is a citizen of the Seneca Nation and has German-Scots ancestry. Cannupa Hanska Luger, who is based in New Mexico, is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara) of Fort Berthold and has Lakota and European ancestry.
Emory students and Carlos Museum docents, patrons, and employees embroidered bandanas for the new, artist-guided community artwork, a collaborative project of both Watt and Luger. Watt is creating another new monumental sculpture in her Blanket Stories series for this exhibition and has asked for community participation.
Emory University was founded in 1836 on the historic lands of the Muscogee (Creek) people, 15 years after the First Treaty of Indian Springs (1821) through which the U.S. government acquired this area of land from the Muscogee Nation. After this treaty, many Muscogee people relocated to Alabama, and were then forcibly removed to present-day Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears in 1836. We share this acknowledgment of the history of the land to help put a better perspective on the Each/Other exhibition and Emory’s commitment to honor Indigenous nations and peoples, both locally and beyond.
The Carlos Museum is honored to present this exhibition that centers Indigenous knowledge, creativity, and collaboration.
Past Programming
Monday, December 6, 7:30 p.m.: Carlos Reads When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Wednesday, December 1, 7:30 p.m.: Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women
Monday, November 29, 7:30 p.m.: Carlos Reads The Heartbreak of Wounded Knee
Monday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.: Carlos Reads The Night Watchman
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Artist in Residence, November 5-13, 2021
Monday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.: Carlos Reads The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Marie Watt: Artist in Residence, September 24 -28, 2021
Friday, September 24, noon: In This Moment: A Conversation with Marie Watt & Cannupa Hanska Luger, watch HERE.
Friday, September 24, 1 - 4 p.m.: Student Studio: Sewing Circle with Marie Watt
Saturday, September 25, 10 a.m.: Educator Open House
Sunday, September 26, noon: Artist's Talk: Marie Watt, watch HERE.
Sunday, September 26, 1 p.m.: Sewing Circle with Artist Marie Watt
Monday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.: Carlos Reads When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Tuestday, October 5, 7:30 pm: Pre-Screening Discussion of Sweet Land, watch HERE.
Wednesday, October 6, 7:30 pm: Screening of Sweet Land, Named "Best New Opera of 2021" by the Music Critics Association of North America
Resources
Video: Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Video: The creation of Every One, the MMIIWQT Bead Project
Video: Contribute to Sculpture for "Each/Other" Art Exhibition
Instructions: How to Make A Mirror Shield
Podcast: Broken Boxes interview with Marie Watt
Podcast: Broken Boxes interview with Cannupa Hanska Luger and Sterlin Harjo
Press
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Skywalker/ Skyscraper (Babel), 2012, Reclaimed wool blankets and steel I-beam, Lent by Brian A Tschumper, Courtesy and © of the artist and PDX Contemporary Art.
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Blanket Stories: Great-Grandmother, Pandemic, Daybreak, 2021, Blankets, manilla tags, and cedar base , Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Trek (Pleiades), 2014, Reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, embroidery floss, and thread, Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Images
- In gallery image: Art shown, left to right:
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European), Every One, 2018, Ceramic, ink, social collaboration, Courtesy of the artist,
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Skywalker/ Skyscraper (Babel), 2012, Reclaimed wool blankets and steel I-beam, Lent by Brian A Tschumper, Courtesy and © of the artist and PDX Contemporary Art.
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Blanket Stories: Great-Grandmother, Pandemic, Daybreak, 2021, Blankets, manilla tags, and cedar base , Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Trek (Pleiades), 2014, Reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, embroidery floss, and thread, Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM - Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) and Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Each/Other, 2020–21. Steel, wool, bandanas, ceramic, leather, and embroidery thread. © Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt. Photography © Denver Art Museum
- Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots), Butterfly, 2015. Reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, thread, cotton twill tape and tin jingles; 94 x 126 in. Denver Art Museum: Funds from Loren G. Lipson, M.D., Vicki & Kent Logan, with additional funds from Brian Tschumper, Nancy Benson, Jan & Mike Tansey, and JoAnn & Bob Balzer, 2016.1A-B. © Marie Watt.
- Cannupa Hanska Luger(Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European), Every One, 2018. Ceramic, social collaboration; 12 x 15 x 3ft. Image courtesy of Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art at Ent Center for the Arts, UCCS, Colorado Springs, CO.
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