ten:ten
an exhibition on portals and kinship featuring works by Haley Greenfeather English (Ojibwe) and Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee, Mvskoke descent)
On view at Center for Native Futures
March 1, 2025 - June 14, 2025
ten:ten
“...how do we go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?” Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Kinship is transformative. Relationships to others, to land, to the cosmos, to creation stories, and to specific moments in time act as both a way in which we can locate ourselves, but also as portals to unknown territory. Offering us an opportunity to extend ourselves beyond what we already know, these portals provide joyful, painful, hilarious, difficult, and beautiful transformation into the people we are presently and a person we have yet to meet…or have we?
Began out of the cathartic friendship between artists Haley Greenfeather English (Ojibwe) and Kalyn Fay Barnoski (Cherokee, Muscogee descent), ten:ten is an exhibition that explores the notion of kinship and it’s capacity to usher in great change. Woven throughout the work is their kismet connection to one another - one that surpasses the boundaries of time and space and fosters laughter, love, happiness, and hope. Including weavings, paintings, murals, and sound, each of the works act as a portal to pass through - and on the other side? Well, only you can answer that.