Nearly all of the artwork by Gina Herrera (Tesuque Pueblo) reflects some aspect of her 25 years in the U.S. military. The California-based mixed media artist questions her own practices and the effect she has on the environment through her assemblages of metal, plastics, found objects, and even military insignia. We’ll hear from her about her unique passion to convey both her culture and her military career, and how that comes out in an exhibition she is part of at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois..

We’ll also talk with artists in an exhibition connected to a seminal time of activism, Native identity, and military ambivalence for Native Americans around the time of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. The Outburst exhibition at Santa Fe’s Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian complies works by artist directly connected to the war as well as those with family connections.

GUESTS

Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo), artist

Dante Biss-Grayson (Osage), Air Force veteran, artist, and founder of Sky-Eagle Collection

Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga Nation, Beaver Clan, and Nez Perce), painter, mix media sculptor, and art writer

Gina Herrera (Tesuque Pueblo), veteran artist

Joseph Lefthand (Descendent of Cheyenne and Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes and American settlers), former contemporary artist