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If Your Telephone Rings
Object Details
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Date
2015-2016
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Object Type
Prints
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Medium
Color reduction woodcut and letterpress on handmade mulberry and North Dakota native milkweed paper
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Contributors
Printed by Kim Fink
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Object Format
Diptych
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Dimensions
19 3/8 x 52 1/4 in.
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
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Accession Number
2017.2.14
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Copyright
© 2015-2016 Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje
Object Description
In 2015, Heyman traveled to North Dakota to chronicle the stories of those living within the state’s tribal nations. Ganje, a letterpress artist who grew up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, invited Heyman to meet with members of four nations: the Spirit Lake Tribe; the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation; and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Heyman and Ganje are not Native American, but they worked in close collaboration with each nation’s tribal college, conducting extensive portrait sittings and interviews with 12 individuals selected by the colleges, which Heyman used as the basis of a series of woodcut portraits. In turn, Ganje created letterpress prints comprised of quotes from each interview recounting aspects of the sitter’s personal histories, values, and cultures. Collectively titled In Our Own Words, the collaborative project, printed by Kim Fink, provides first-person testimony that Indigenous cultures remain unique, rich, and very much alive.
—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023)
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