A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
Peter Jemison, Ganondagan Historic Site Manager, welcoming Haudenosaunee artists and gallery supporters.
Anna (Dodie) Thompson and her 'Warrior Wear' moccasins and leg pieces.
Ann Mitchell 'Dreamweaver Basketry' and her 1st Place creation in the basketry category.
Kelly Back with her beaded backpack featuring a turtle shell.
Marjorie Skidders standing in front of her photo 'Dancer One', winning third place in the 2D category.
A piece that earned a lot of attention and discussion, Peter Jones' Pope and the Innocents, earning first place in the fine art division.
Bruce Boots' pair of paintings 'Mohawk Couple' grabbed everyone's attention at the gallery.
Natasha Smoke-Santiago and Carrie Hill collaborated on 'Broken but Beautiful' piece made from black ash, sweetgrass and clay, winning third place in the fine art category.
This past weekend, a number of Mohawk artists and craftspeople stepped onto Seneca territory and made their mark in the Hodinöhsö:ni′ Art Show at Ganondagan and at the Ganondagan Indigenous Music and Arts Festival. Held near Victor, NY the event attracts thousands of people each year mixing art, music, storytelling, crafts and great festival food.
The weekend was kicked off with the 2019 Hodinöhsö:ni′ Art Show on Friday evening July 26 sharply at 6pm with Peter Jemison (Heron Clan, Seneca) Historic Site Manager welcoming everyone to the artist's reception and opening the floors to the Ganondagan Art Gallery. As artists entered, they scanned the room for their own work and those of their fellow artists, as no one was notified until that moment.
Local artist included Bruce Boots, Carrie Hill, Natasha Smoke-Santiago, Kelly Back, Anna (Dodie) Thompson and Marjorie Skidders.
According Michael Jason Galban, Curator of the Seneca Art & Culture Center over one hundred pieces of artwork were submitted for the 2019 juried Hodinöhsö:ni' Art Show. Forty-five pieces in five categories were selected and exhibited at the Indigenous Music & Arts Festival with gallery showing from Friday evening to Sunday, July 28th.
The five divisions included: beadwork, basketry, traditional arts, fine art 2D, and fine art sculpture. Artists could enter up to three pieces of new work for consideration in the show.
The festival kicked off a two-day event the next day on Saturday, July 27th, featuring storyteller Perry Ground (Onondaga, Turtle Clan) with his often-humorous interpretations of traditional Haudenosaunee stories, the debut of songwriter/bassist Robert Parker and his band "Freightrain." The band won the 2018 Indigenous Music Award Best Blues Album, and Parker was the first Native American to be inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame.
The Festival also the Allegany River Dancers and the Crouse family who have been part of the Ganondagan Indigenous Music and Arts Festival tradition for years. On another end of the cultural continuum Ganondagan featured 'Soh Daiko', the powerful Japanese taiko drumming group sharing their music and dance to festival goers.
Peter Jemison, Historic Site Manager, stated Native Americans consist of about one percent of the overall US population and highlighting Amerindian contributions is more important now than ever, "This is where we come from, this is really the home county, the home land of the Seneca Nation. I think people should understand that before the arrival of Europeans, that people lived here."
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