SU Art Galleries 'Hyphenative' Exhibit Closing Reception

SALISBURY, MD---A closing reception for the Salisbury University Art Galleries Downtown exhibit “hyphenative” is 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8.

Highlights include a talk by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger at 5:30 p.m., followed by a performance by musician and composer Laura Ortman.

The exhibit explores the hyphenated and hybrid cultures created by migrations throughout history.

Hanska Luger, whose works are among those featured, is a multi-disciplinary Native American artist based in New Mexico. He has exhibited internationally at venues including the Washington Project for the Arts, Art Mûr in Montreal, Orenda Gallery in Paris, Autry Museum of the American West and National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, among others. He holds a B.F.A. in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and was a 2016 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow.

Ortman, of White Mountain Apache descent, is a Brooklyn, NY, composer, musician and artist. She produces solo albums, live performances and film/art soundtracks, frequently collaborating with artists in film, music, art, dance, multi-media, activism and poetry. She plays violin, Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards and pedal steel guitar, sings through a megaphone and makes field recordings.

She has performed at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Sponsored by SU Art Galleries, admission to the reception is free and the public is invited. Refreshments will be served.

For more information call 410-548-2547 or visit the SU Art Galleries website.