This exhibition will focus on urban Native American identity, exploring how identity shifts across

urban environments, diaspora, and mixed heritage. Showcasing how Native Americans balance

their Indigeneity in urban, western dominated spaces where sometimes they are physically

removed from their tribe(s) or reservation. Braided Identities is a compilation of personal

histories, community memory, and the stereotypes that still shape how Native people are seen.

Presented are artworks representing the daily life of urban Natives. What spaces we take up or

create, what objects we use, and how we present our Indigeneity in everyday life.

Native Americans are modern, contemporary, multicultural people. We have been here since

time immemorial and are still here. We are the blood of the colonizer and the blood of the

colonized. We are the blood of the invaders and the blood of the invaded. How do we contend

with this? How do we as a people carry, sustain, and balance our Indigeneity while living in a

multicultural, globalized world that is designed to control and define us?

Join us for an evening of art, drinks, and mingle between 16:00-20:00
Entrance is free, but you need to REGISTER HERE!

The Exhibition will be on display in the STPLN coworking space.

Raffle: 16:00-19:00 One lucky person will go home with a FREE original painting! Winner announced @19:00

Lizzy Herrick is an Indigenous artist of Klamath (Ewksiknii), Modoc (Modoknii), and Northern

Paiute (Neme) descent and a citizen of the Klamath Tribes. She has a background in Human

Rights, American Indian Studies and Community Engagement & Outreach. Armed with an MA

in Human Rights, her work focuses on Native American belonging, identity, and blood quantum

politics utilizing Indigenous research and decolonizing methodologies. She blends pop culture

and Native American references to challenge the idea that Native Americans must look a certain

way.