Joel Elgin,
Athraigh Studio. Printmaking in the time of COVID-19. Small Exhibitions: Who
are the people COVID – 19 is Killing in Your Neighborhood?
Apache and Pueblo Art/Printmaking.
Sung to the tune
of the Sesame Street song…
Who are the people
in Your Neighborhood? The people COVID – 19 is Killing Each Day. Apache and
Pueblo Art/Printmaking.
Over
89,000 people have died from COVID - 19. The Trump government wants you to see
only numbers but behind each number is a person.
In the U.S. people of color are at
greater risk than others. Among the most vulnerable are Native Americans.
Today,
in the second exhibit detailing Who are the people COVID – 19 is Killing in
Your Neighborhood? Athraigh Studio continues the intention of showing that
the dying are not just numbers, by bringing you examples of the contemporary
art/printmaking of the Apache and the Pueblo.
The
Apache and Pueblo are located in the in the Southwest Cultural Region
incorporating the lower parts of Utah and Colorado, all of Arizona and New
Mexico, and the northern deserts of Mexico. Like the Navajo, Hopi and the Zuni
they are battling COVID – 19 with little help from the Trump administration.
Let’s
examine how COVID – 19 is affecting Native Americans in New Mexico:
New
Mexico’s 23 tribes compose just 11% of the state population.
The
reported cases among tribal communities, combined, make up almost 60% of all
positive cases in New Mexico.
50%
of all people who had died of COVID-19 in New Mexico were Native American.
So,
who are the Apache?
Na
i sha Apache (Tribe of Oklahoma)
Chiricahua
Warm Springs Apache (Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma)
Jicarilla
Apache Nation, New Mexico
Southern
Athabaskan Native Americans. (Mescalero Apache Tribe New Mexico)
San
Carlos Apache Tribe, Arizona
Dilzhe’eh
Apache (Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona)
White
Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizona
Yavapai-Apache
Nation, Arizona
Contemporary
Apache Artists I admire:
Bob
Haozous
Warm
Springs Chiricahua Apache
Border
Crossing (verso) 1991, painted steel
Darren
Vigil Gray
Jicarilla
Apache/Kiowa Apache
"Healing
Period I"
Mixed-Media
Billy
Soza WarSoldier
Cahuilla-Apache
Man,
1969
Dry-point
So,
who are the Pueblo?
Seven
Keres pueblos are:
Cochiti
Pueblo
San
Felipe Pueblo, Katishtya
Kewa
Pueblo, Díiwʾi
Zia
Pueblo, Tsi'ya
Santa
Ana Pueblo, Tamaiya
Acoma
Pueblo, Aak'u
Laguna
Pueblo, Kawaika
Contemporary
Pueblo Artists I admire:
Mateo
Romero
Cochiti
Pueblo
Cold
Middle, Gods of the Warm, 1999
Single-color
lithograph
Diego
Romero,
Cochiti
Pueblo
Saints
and Sinners,
Three color lithograph,
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