Picker Art Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence Cannupa Hanska Luger led a collaborative workshop for the Colgate community, Haudenosaunee people, and local residents on April 9.
Community members hand-rolled ceramic beads, which will be incorporated into Luger’s envisioned social collaborative installation project. The artist is bringing this community workshop to locations around the country in an effort to create 20,000 individual beads, each representing one of the 20,000 plains bison living on tribal lands today. The installation will shed light on the importance of wild bison conservation and how environmental destruction continues to impact Indigenous communities.
