Traditional Arts and Creative Identities: Traditional Arts Indiana’s 2022 Apprenticeships

When: August 15 through October 14, 2022
Where: Process Gallery at the Cook Center for Public Arts & Humanities (Maxwell Hall)

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 2022 Apprenticeship Program. Their work includes artforms 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.