Blessing Ceremony and Opening Reception: 3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse

3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations
blessing ceremony + opening reception: Thursday, August 29, 4-6 pm

Celebrate the first exhibition of its kind at CSU, co-curated by Bruce A. Cook III (Haida/Northern Arapaho), George Curtis Levi (Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho, Lakota), and Emily Moore. See contemporary artwork by George Curtis Levi, Bruce A. Cook III, Halcyon Grace Levi, Heather Levi, Max Bear, Eugene Ridgely Jr., Aloysius Hubbard, and Colleen Friday alongside cultural belongings from the collections of Denver Art Museum and Denver Museum of Nature and Science in dedication to artists of the Hinonoʼeino’ (Arapaho) and Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) Nations, whose homelands in Colorado formed much of the land grant that founded Colorado State University.

3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse features Cheyenne and Arapaho art from the nineteenth century to today and probes the relationship between CSU’s founding in 1870 and the violent removal of Cheyenne and Arapaho people from Colorado.

Food and drink provided. Free and open to all!

Image: Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) or Hinono’ei (Arapaho) Artist, Hóhkėhá’ėstse (Cheyenne, “cradle”) or Ceecihoo’ kokouwonohout (Arapaho, “soft cradle”), 1880, hide, glass beads, and cotton fabric, 29 x 10.5 in. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, AC658.