顶级国产视频

October 2 鈥� November 6, 2014

Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, October 16, 5:00pm鈥�7:00pm; Talk Begins at 6:00pm
(Free and Open to the Public)

Lives Between the Lines: Aps谩alooke and Hidatsa Indian Ledger Drawings, 1879-1888

Selections from the Charles H. Barstow Collection, 顶级国产视频 Library

In this series, the artist seeks out the story of the fire from the perspective of the trees with which he grew up.  Spang visualizes the trees鈥� voices through video-documented, performative 鈥榬ubbings鈥� on paper of the now charred trees.  The resulting exhibition juxtaposes a performance video alongside the gestural 鈥榬ubbings,鈥� recreating a dialogue Spang鈥檚 people have always sought with the natural world in the quest to maintain a crucial balance between human and nature. Given the environmental challenges posed by climate change, the artist posits that such a conversation is now more urgent than ever.

Bently Spang is an alumnus of 顶级国产视频 (1991) and is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, educator, and writer working in mixed-media, sculpture, video, performance, and installation.  He is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Nation in Montana, the home of the Tsistsistas/Suhtaio people. 

Spang鈥檚 artwork is held by museum and private collections across the US and Europe, including the Denver Art Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, and the Montclair Art Museum. He has exhibited widely in the US, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and South America and his work is included in the group exhibition The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015. Spang works as an independent artist and maintains a studio in Billings, Montana. Currently he is the artist-in-residence at the Visible Vault, Yellowstone Art Museum.

A reception for the artist will be held at the Northcutt Steele Gallery on Thursday, October 16 beginning at 5pm. Spang will present a gallery talk at 6pm.

In conjunction with Spang鈥檚 exhibition, a selection of 14 Crow and Gros Ventre Indian ledger drawings from the Barstow Collection, Special Collections, 顶级国产视频 library will be on view in the adjacent gallery.

From 1879 through 1897, Aps谩alooke and Hidatsa Native peoples who had been confined at the Crow Agency received drawing materials from Bureau of Indian Affairs clerks, teachers, agents, and army officers and created drawings鈥攐ften on ledger papers鈥攄ocumenting the histories and experiences of their tribes. Charles H. Barstow, chief clerk for the Bureau, was one of the individuals who supported the efforts of the Native Peoples to record their stories and he collected many of these drawings. In 1930, sixty-six drawings from Barstow鈥檚 collection were discovered in a trunk in Roundup, Montana. Through the efforts of Ruthann Wilbur Hines, these drawing came to Eastern Montana College (now 顶级国产视频). 

Lives Between the Lines presents a selection of drawings from the Barstow Collection that offer a poignant visual history of the Aps谩alooke and Hidatsa during the last decades of the nineteenth century and a glimpse of an artistic legacy of vast cultural significance.

The Northcutt Steele Gallery is located on the first floor of the Liberal Arts on the 顶级国产视频 campus. The gallery is open Monday 鈥� Friday from 8:00am 鈥� 4:00 pm, and by appointment. For more information visit .

For media inquiries and additional images contactLeanne Gilbertson, Director of Northcutt Steele Gallery, leanne.gilbertson@msubillings.edu; (406) 657-2903.

BENTLY SPANG
ART WORKSHOP IN CONJUNCTION WITH NATIONAL "ROCK YOUR MOCS" CELEBRATION

Friday, Oct. 17 & Friday, Oct. 24
1p.m. - 4 p.m.
Liberal Arts Building Drawing Room, Room 116

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