Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, December 7, 2017-February 24, 2018; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida, May 24-August 5, 2018; Blue Star Contemporary and Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas, October 4, 2018-January 6, 2019; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, March 7-June 2, 2019; and The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 21-September 1, 2019
Exhibiting artists: Gina Adams, Carmen Argote, Natalie Ball, Margarita Cabrera, Juan William Chávez, william cordova, Rafa Esparza, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson, Guillermo Galindo, Jeffrey Gibson, Sky Hopinka, Donna Huanca, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Merritt Johnson, Truman Lowe, Ivan Lozano, Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marty Two Bulls, Jr., Rodolfo Marron III, Harold Mendez, Harold Mendez and Ronny Quevedo, Mark Menjivar, Ronny Quevedo, Wendy Red Star, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, Guadalupe Rosales, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Edra Soto, Francisco Souto, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Mary Valverde, Dyani White Hawk, Nathan Young, and Sarah Zapata
Contents:
Foreword / Chris Cook -- Monarchs: Brown and Native contemporary artists in the path of the butterfly / Risa Puelo, curator -- Migrations -- Inheritance -- Transformation -- Resilience -- Sovereignty -- Exhibition checklist
Summary:
"Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly takes the migration path of the Monarch butterfly, as a geographic range and a metaphor. The butterfly crosses the border of the United States at its junctions with Canada at the north and Mexico in the south along the entire length of both of these conceptual divides. Bypassing the hotter, desert regions of the country, Monarchs flock along its western and eastern coastal edges, but the busiest path of the orange-and-black butterfly is through the center of the United States. The Monarch travels through Midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, across the Great Plains of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, onwards through the Texas Hill Country all the way to the state of Michoacan in Mexico. The path of the butterfly also connects the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline where it crosses the Missouri River at the border of the Standing Rock nation to the U.S.-Mexico border, but the butterfly itself is indifferent to these artificial borders and conceptual divisions"--Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts website