Colleen Friday Confluence | Nonoono’wu’

Colleen Friday Confluence | Nonoono’wu’
Center Presents
Wyoming Arts Council Native Art Fellowship Award Winner 2022
October 20 | 6:00pm Opening reception | 6:30pm Artist Talk
Center Theater Gallery

Co-Presented with: Wyoming Arts Council

The Center is honored to host Colleen Friday, a Northern Arapaho artist and ecosystem scientist from Arapahoe, Wyoming. Friday traces her first artistic influences to her mom and older sisters’ beadwork, and the intense discipline of sorting and stitching tiny beads during evening hours grouped around a table and the laughter of Native women. Friday works in many mediums, from beads to stencils, to aerosol mural painting mixing elements of contemporary art and street art with geometric Arapaho symbols and portraits of historical figures. Her studies in rangeland ecology, environment and natural resources have become interwoven in her creative work. Her most recent project focuses on beadwork as data visualization representing geography, water, and the biodiversity of plants harbored in tribal lands.

The Wyoming Arts Council’s Native Art Fellowship is an award of merit open to Native artists based within Wyoming working across any artistic discipline or medium. This fellowship is designed to raise the profiles of the highly talented Native artists in Wyoming and celebrate their artistry.

Image title: Beaded Map of Saint Lawrence & Paradise Basins with 106 transects. Elk hide, glass seed beads, abalone shell, brass spots. Approx. 69″ x 86.5″. 2019. Plants, Place & People exhibition.

Made possible with support from Anvil Hotel