"Project 562" Matika Wilbur Artist Talk

Sat Jun 01 2024 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

The Hawthorne Barn | Provincetown

Twenty Summers
Publisher/HostTwenty Summers
"Project 562" Matika Wilbur Artist Talk
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Project 562 is Matika's commitment to visit, engage and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States.
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Over 10 years ago began to develop a monumental aspiration that has led to her work today: to help develop a body of imagery and cultural representations of Native Peoples to counteract the relentlessly insipid, one-dimensional stereotypes circulating in mainstream media, historical textbooks and the culture industry. To create positive indigenous role models to do justice to the richness and diversity and lived experiences of Indian Country.

In 2012 Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created which reflects her commitment to visit, engage and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States.


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This project has driven her to travel hundreds of thousands of miles, many in her RV the “Big Girl” but also by horseback through the Grand Canyon, by train, plane, and boat and on foot across all 50 states. 

She reflects a remarkable way of being an artist in the contemporary world. The photographs that Matika takes reflect her consummate craftsmanship. Beautiful black and white images that selectively incorporate color and showcase their subjects in vital mutualism with the lands on which they live and which they steward. 

But her virtuoso technique is only one aspect of the social and cultural meaning of the works. They are one product of her dynamic engagement with Native communities in which she takes the time to understand the stories and histories of particular tribes. Each particular tribe and each individual and experience which shapes entirely the way the portrait comes to be. From this lecture, the audience has the opportunity to “journey”.

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The Hawthorne Barn, 29 Miller Hill Rd, Provincetown, United States

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