2023 Exhibition: NOT THE END

THIS IS NOT THE END | Schneider Hall Galleries | Belknap Gallery 

October 5-November 4, 2023 

THIS IS NOT THE END features contemporary photo-based work produced by Native Americans from 7 different tribes. The exhibition seeks to present a pathbreaking discourse on the subject of the assumed colonial lens in conversation with collective indigenous knowledge and individual self-knowledge. Anishinaabe scholar Gerald Vizenor wrote that “[c]ameras are the instruments of institutive discoveries and predatory surveillance, photographs are cultural commodities and class representations that reduce a sense of native presence to an aesthetic dominance.” THIS IS NOT THE END presents a broad range of diverse personal experiences, challenging mainstream conventions by offering a fresh approach to rethinking pictures in Native America. THIS IS NOT THE END is curated by MA Candidate Donna Charging, and features: Anthony Two Moons, Bré Taylor, Courtney M. Leonard, Nora Moore Lloyd, Tashine Azure, Tom Jones, and Trevino Brings Plenty.