Artwork Details
- Title
- For Joy Harjo, from the series For Zitkála-Šá
- Artist
- Date
- 2020
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 11 in. × 8 1⁄2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Copyright
- © 2019-2020, Raven Chacon
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment
- Mediums Description
- lithograph on paper
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Abstract
- Object Number
- 2022.7.1.10
Artwork Description
Trained as a composer, Chacon (Diné) often starts from musically notated scores to create conceptually rich artworks across creative categories. Since scores are inherently fluid, even when they take fixed form in a video or print, the works based on them retain the possibility for further interpretation, collaboration, and reanimation in new contexts.
In his print portfolio series For Zitkála-Šá, Chacon recognizes Zitkála-Šá (Yankton-Dakota, 1876--1938), an Indigenous and women's rights advocate and the first Native composer to use Western musical notation. The series of score-portraits celebrates contemporary Native woman musicians in his circle. Each striking graphic is accompanied by performance instructions, inviting all to imagine how they might activate this legacy.
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