What comes after a land acknowledgement? A new Madison College art exhibit invites visitors to explore that question through the work of Indigenous artists reflecting on their relationships with Wisconsin’s lands and waters.
“Indigenous Wisconsin: Beyond Acknowledgement” brings together Indigenous artists whose work explores reciprocal relationships with the natural world through material, memory, language, storytelling and cultural practices.
The exhibit’s featured work is “She Gives to Us,” a painting by Ho-Chunk and White Earth Ojibwe artist Christopher Sweet. The piece depicts an Indigenous family gathered near a river, expressing appreciation for the resources and connections the land and water provide…