Last weekend, we kicked off our 2022-2023 exhibition program Roots Radical with our 48 Hours arts and social justice summit. From August 12-13, RedLine was abuzz with Indigenous artists, writers, musicians, dancers, merchants, vendors, and academics who shared their art, expertise, and culture with the community.
Jemez Pueblo Dancers at Deal’s End of Silence: A Punk Survey of Gregg Deal exhibition opening. Photo credit: Adrienne M. Kendall Photography.
One of these magnificent presenters was Lucha Martínez de Luna of the Chicano/a/x Murals of Colorado Project. Lucha’s legacy in preserving critical historical murals across the state garnered much-deserved attention from Westword — as did her participation in our 48 Hours summit.
Westword highlighted several artists who participated in our summit, including Danielle SeeWalker (moderator for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives panel) and Gregg Deal, whose exhibition End of Silence: A Punk Survey of Gregg Deal opened at RedLine on Friday, August 12th.
Deal was one of our keynote speakers (along with Martínez de Luna), and the originator of the concept behind RedLine’s Roots Radical exhibition program. In the article, Deal said this about our 48 Hours summit and the Roots Radical exhibition programming for 2022-2023:
“Usually these types of things are tied into academia somehow, or powwows or Indigenous People’s Day...I love that this is just happening because it’s happening. It doesn’t have to have a reason or a purpose.”
Experience End of Silence: A Punk Survey of Gregg Deal at RedLine
Textile Series No. 3. Artist Gregg Deal.
The very existence of Indigenous people is distorted and consumed for the entertainment of the masses. Indigenous silence isn’t really silence, but the erasure of Native voices.
Similar to a Punk rock anthem, Deal’s exhibition amplifies this erasure and captures an honest and authentically articulated experience and thus ends the silence.
On display from August 12-October 9.
