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Andrea Carlson to Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Andrea Carlson will be presenting an exhibition titled Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from August 3, 2024 through February 2, 2025. Andrea Carlson is the 26th artist to participate in Chicago Works, a solo exhibition series at the MCA that features artists who are shaping contemporary art in the city and beyond. The exhibition is presented in the MCA’s Turner Gallery, on the museum’s fourth floor.

Andrea Carlson (b. 1979, Ojibwe/European descent; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics. Grounded in Anishinaabe understandings of space and time, the works in this exhibition reflect on how land holds memories of colonial expansion and violence, Indigenous presence and resistance.

Across painting, video, and sculpture, Carlson organizes imagined landscapes around one constant: the horizon. This line is reminiscent of her homelands on Lake Superior. It is also a significant art historical trope that artists have employed to depict territories as vast and vacant, ripe for the taking. Carlson’s prismatic works are not empty: they are densely layered with an abundance of motifs, making reference to the tactics of colonialism as well as her family and peers, Ojibwe culture, and Indigenous sovereignty. Confronting histories of erasure and dispossession, Carlson proposes that what appears to be lost can be remade, reimagined, or otherwise regained.

Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is curated by Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.

Learn more about the exhibition here!

Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints at MFA Boston

Check out this exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston! Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints is on view from November 4, 2023 through March 17, 2024 and features Highpoint Editions work by Dyani White Hawk, Julie Buffalohead, and Andrea Carlson!

Resilience often manifests in work by Indigenous North American artists, for example in its content or simply by increasing visibility to combat erasure in representation. Some Native artists have used the collaborative medium of printmaking as a way of reclaiming their histories and addressing the challenges their communities face today.

Check out MFA Boston’s website for more information and additional programming.

Creative Capital 2024 Awards Granted to Highpoint Editions Artists

Congratulations to both Highpoint Editions Artists Andrea Carlson and Dyani White Hawk on their Creative Capital 2024 Awards!

Creative Capital announced their 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image, totaling $2.5 million in grants to artists for the creation of 50 groundbreaking new works. Chosen via a democratic process of external peer review out of 5,600 applications, these 28 successful visual arts project proposals and 22 film/moving image project proposals, representing 54 artists in total, were awarded on the basis of their innovative new approaches to painting, drawing, sculpture, public art, video art, architecture and design, printmaking, installation, documentary film, experimental film, narrative film, and socially engaged forms. The Creative Capital Award provides each individual artist with unrestricted project funding up to $50,000, which can be drawn down over a multi-year period, bespoke professional development services, and community-building opportunities.

Read more about the Creative Capital Awards here!

Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Dyani White Hawk named Artists of the Year 2019

Star Tribune | Illustrations by Robert Carter • Special to Star Tribune

Star Tribune | Illustrations by Robert Carter • Special to Star Tribune

Highpoint Editions Artists Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson and Dyani White Hawk were three of the six artists named “Star Tribune's 2019 Artists of the Year.” The six honored artists were all part of the groundbreaking exhibition “Hearts of Our People” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and as the Tribune says were “at the height of their powers” in 2019, having released new work, participating in solo shows and receiving high profile honors.

Read the full article and learn about each artists’ work here…..

How Native women artists guided the creation of “Hearts of Our People”

How Native women artists guided the creation of “Hearts of Our People”

Co Curator of the “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists” , Teri Greeves shares an article on the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s newest exhibition., which features Highpoint Editions Artists Julie Buffalohead, Dyani White Hawk and Andrea Carlson.

Mia Celebrates Native Women Artists With "Hearts of Our People" Exhibit

Mia Celebrates Native Women Artists With "Hearts of Our People" Exhibit

Mia Celebrates Native Women Artists With "Hearts of Our People" Exhibit

“For centuries, Native American women’s art has been misappropriated, misinterpreted, and, generally, missing in action. A blockbuster, once-in-a-generation exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art promises to rewrite that history.” - MSP Mag