Create Our Future - Honor Our Past: Sweetgrass, 2021

2021

Kathleen Wall , Artist Kelly Church , Artist Wanesia Misquadace , Artist

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About the Artwork

Wearing clothing created with time-honored artistry and carrying a basketful of sacred sweetgrass, this young person represents the Eastern Woodlands— the ancestral home of the Anishinaabe peoples. The painted floral patterns on the hat, collar, and shawl refer to beadwork on velvet. For this ceramic figure, Jemez Pueblo potter Kathleen Wall collaborated with other artists. Kelly Church wove the basket using techniques passed down through generations of Anishinaabe weavers. Likewise, Wanesia Misquadace made the hair ties using porcupine quillwork as well as bark biting, creating the turtle design on the medallions with her teeth.

Title Create Our Future - Honor Our Past: Sweetgrass, 2021

Artwork Date 2021

Makers Kathleen Wall (Artist) Jemez Pueblo, Native American, born 1973 Kelly Church (Artist) Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi; Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians (Descent), born 1967 Wanesia Misquadace (Artist) Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, born 1967

Medium Ceramic, slip, birchbark, paint, and sweetgrass

Dimensions Overall: 28 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (72.4 × 24.1 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Indigenous Americas

Credit Museum Purchase, Flint Ink Endowment

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2021.269.2

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(Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA);
2021-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Kathleen Wall; Wanesia Misquadace; Kelly Church, Create Our Future - Honor Our Past: Sweetgrass, 2021, 2021, ceramic, slip, birchbark, paint, and sweetgrass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Flint Ink Endowment, 2021.269.2.