June 2-September 24, 2023
From a fourth-generation hoop net maker to a Zapotec weaver, this exhibition explores how makers from diverse communities throughout Indiana assert their personal and cultural identities through traditional arts. While nets, quilts, paperweights, weavings, and banjo tunes are creative expressions, they also communicate a maker’s sense of self and community. Each artist in the exhibition is a member of Traditional Arts Indiana’s Apprenticeship Program. Their work includes art forms long practiced in Indiana as well as traditions new to the state. This exhibition tells the story of how these artists are teaching their traditions to the next generation, which is perhaps the most complete expression of one’s cultural identity.
