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Sky Hopinka, Here you are before the trees,
2020 (still). HD video, stereo, color, 3-channel,
synchronous loop, 12 minutes 44 seconds.
Courtesy of the artist.

LEARN MORE
uofr.us/Hopinka

Sky Hopinka: Memories of Movement
Through January 8, 2023
A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Sky Hopinka
is an internationally recognized multimedia artist. Hopinka’s exhibition presents friendship, family, and travel
as opportunities to reflect on what it means to be an Indigenous person in North America. The exhibition at
MAG includes new work by the artist: a three-channel video installation, Here you are before the trees (2020),
that focuses on the Indigenous histories of upstate New York and their relationships with other regions of the
United States; an etched photograph (2021) of a group of friends together in an Adirondack landscape; and a
large-scale calligram (2017), a design approach in which the layout of the text creates a visual image related to
the meaning of the words themselves. In this case, the words written by anthropologist Paul Radin in 1923 form
a flying goose and describe the Winnebago tribe.

Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and MARK YOUR CALENDAR
the Art of Independence

July 17 to October 23, 2022 MAGthursdays
Thursdays, 5 to 9 p.m.
This exhibit showcases a new form of bead art known as the Enjoy half-price museum
ndwango (cloth), which was developed by a community of women admission every week.
living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The black fabric on which the Ubuhle women work is reminiscent Pride Celebration Day
of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts that many of them grew up July 16, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
wearing. By stretching this textile like a canvas, the artists transform Join MAG for its annual
the flat cloth into a contemporary art form featuring colored Czech celebration of the LGBTQ+
glass beads. Ubuhle means “beauty” in the Xhosa and Zulu community.
languages, and it describes the shimmering quality of light on glass
that for the Xhosa people has a particular spiritual significance.
M&T Clothesline Festival
September 10 and 11

Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela, Attend this creative celebration
My Sea, My Sister, My Tears, 2011, and annual fundraiser on MAG
glass beads sewn onto fabric.
grounds.

LEARN MORE MORE MAG EVENTS
uofr.us/Ubuhle mag.rochester.edu/calendar

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