Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

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Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger features the work of Watt and Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking, community engagement, materials, and the land. Each/Other features 26 mixed media sculptures, wall hangings and large-scale installation works by Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. Works on view in Each/Other will consist of materials including carved wood, ceramic and fabric sculpture, photography, installation works with concertina and oil drums, video-based interpretive elements and documentation pieces to show past performance works by the artists. Together, Watt and Luger emphasize creativity as a boundless process, and a catalyst for connection and building greater empathy and understanding between individuals, neighbors, communities, and the world around us.

Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is organized by the Denver Art Museum and presented with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Robert Lehman Foundation, Stelo, and Native Arts and Culture Foundation.

Thank you to PEM supporters, Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation and individuals that support the Exhibition Incubation Fund: Jennifer and Andrew Borggaard, James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes, Kate and Ford O'Neil, and Henry and Callie Brauer provided generous support. We also recognize the generosity of the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.

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The exhibition features labels in English and Spanish. As part of PEM’s Bilingual Initiative, these translations strive to engage multicultural audiences and strengthen ties to our local communities.

TOP IMAGE: Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots) and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European), Detail of Each/Other, 2020–21, as installed at the Denver Art Museum. Steel, wool, bandanas and embroidery thread. Courtesy of the artists. Artwork © Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Installation photography © Denver Art Museum.

Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), This Is Not A Snake, 2017-2020. Ceramic, fiber, steel, oil drums, concertina wire, ammunition cans, trash, found objects. Two front figures: One Who Checks & The One Who Balances, 2018. Ceramic, riot gear, afghan, wool surplus industrial felt, beadwork by Kathy Elkwoman Whitman. Courtesy and © Cannupa Hanska Luger. Photo courtesy of the Heard Museum, Craig Smith.