Jan 16 2020
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Feb 28 2020
John Hitchcock

John Hitchcock

Presented by CSB/SJU Fine Arts Series at Saint John's Art Center/Alice R. Rogers and Target Galleries

Bury the Hatchet is artist John Hitchcock’s mixed media, cross-disciplinary, multisensory installation. Hitchcock combines his interests in printmaking, Rock n’ Roll, and Kiowa and Comanche history into one visual expression that offers a re-telling of the narrative of the American Frontier. Working from the theme of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, Bury the Hatchet explores issues of assimilation, acculturation, and indoctrination through oral history and music. Bury the Hatchet develops a shared language to interrogate historic and modern institutions to prompt a re-definition and re-imagining of our present reality.

The visual and sound recordings in the exhibition work together to challenge western perspectives of the supremacy of the written word by reinforcing Indigenous views of oral history passed on from generation to generation through storytelling.

Sound recordings include the artist on pedal steel guitar with soundscapes of cello, clarinet, accordion and guitars by The Stolen Sea, Jason Cutnose (Kiowa1967-2015) narrating a story about the Cutthroat Gap massacre in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma, Juanita Pahdopony (Comanche) voice recording a Comanche prayer, Hitchcock’s grandfather Saukwaukee John Dussome Reid (Kiowa 1912-1996) telling a story of the old days on the Southern Plains, Catlin Mead reinterpretation of Cutnose’s stories through her Soprano opera voice and Intertribal War Dance Songs (recorded in 1978 on the Johnny Reid (Kiowa) and Peggy Reid (Comanche) Dance Ground). Video images include War Dancers in Medicine Park, Oklahoma and buffalo images recorded in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge by Emily Arthur.

Admission Info

Free event.

Phone: 320-363-5777

Email: bacinfo@csbsju.edu

Dates & Times

2020/01/16 - 2020/02/28

Additional time info:

An artist reception will be held on Thursday, January 23rd from 5-7 pm.  An artist talk will take place from 6:00 – 6:30 pm followed by a band performance from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm.John Hitchcock’s band will perform at Brother Willies Pub at Saint John’s University following the artist reception.SJU Art Center Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, Noon – 6 pm.  Thursdays Noon – 9:00 pm.

Location Info

Saint John's Art Center/Alice R. Rogers and Target Galleries

2850 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville, MN