Trickster GalleryTrickster Gallery is the only Native operated arts institution in the State of Illinois and is dedicated to providing space for first-voice arts. Trickster Gallery will feature contemporary Native art (post 1960s) and augment exhibits with film screenings, featured speakers, panel discussions, school tours and educator workshops.
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Special thanks to the Village of Schaumburg and Mayor Larson for their continued support of the Trickster Gallery.
Learn more about the Village of Schaumburg and Prairie Center of the Arts at:
www.villageofschaumburg.com or http://www.villageofschaumburg.com/prairiecenter/
Program Highlights:
During Trickster’s first year, over 1,500 individuals visited the gallery. The gallery has hosted 6 exhibits during the first year including:
- Dissipating Indians, Reflections on Native Iconoclams, a multimedia exhibit curated by Dave Spencer featured work of Winston Howard (Dine’), Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Inupiaq), Mike Marin (Dine’/Laguna Pueblo/Washo/Mexican), Chris Pappan (Osage/Lakota), Ernest M. Whiteman III (Northern Arapaho), Debbie Yeppa-Pappen (Jemez Pueblo).
- 50 Years of Powwow photo exhibit commemorating the AIC’s first 50 powwows. The exhibit was designed by the AIC and developed in conjunction with The Field Museum. It has traveled throughout the state of Illinois. Pictures from the exhibit were included in Shades of America, Chicago’s 50 Years of Powwow released by Arcadia Publishing.
- Beauty Before Me, Beauty All Around Me artwork by Joe Yazzie (Dine’)
- Native Women’s Visions: Honoring Community though Art by Native American Women’s Artist Guild
- Thoughts and Opinions by Robert Wapahi (Lakota)
- Okee-Chee and Yazzie: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in Native Arts artwork by Sharon Skolnick (Apache) and Joe Yazzie.
- The Field Museum is interested in traveling the 50 Years of Powwow photo exhibit internationally.