TAUNY hosts art sale by Mohawk artist Sue Ellen Herne

A special selection of works by Mohawk artist Sue Ellen Herne are for sale at the TAUNY Center, 53 Main St., downtown Canton from June 13 through June 17. There will be an opportunity to meet the artist and discuss her work on Wednesday, June 17 from noon to 4:00pm.

Herne's works encompass traditional arts including basketry, leatherwork, beadwork, and sewing, as well as paintings and installations. Her paintings express her personal vision, which is both universal and very distinctly that of a contemporary Mohawk woman. Her work reflects on themes of continuity, identity, and culture. Her "one-woman group show," HOMEmade; An Autobiographical Exhibit, which opened in February at the TAUNY Center and explores ideas of home, arts made at home, and arts that reflect on the meaning of home, will close at the end of June. The paintings in the exhibit, as well as additional works will be available for purchase at this special sale from June 13 through June 17th.

"This is a rare chance to see a variety of paintings that I have made over the years, and rarer yet, a chance to buy," says Herne.

Herne is a 1982 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design painting department and a 1978 high school graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. She has been the museum coordinator at the Akwesasne Cultural Center since 1995.