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EXHIBITIONS IN WASHINGTON, DC

EXHIBITIONS IN NEW YORK
June 7, 2008–September 21, 2008
September 23, 2006–March 31, 2010



MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008
FILMS
SCREENING DAILY: Always Becoming Sculpture Project
May 1, 2008–May 31, 2008
10:30 a.m., 2:30 & 4:30 p.m.
Daily
Washington DC
Rasmuson Theater

(2007, 17 min.) Director: Dax Thomas (Laguna/Acoma)

Artist Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo), the first Native American woman to create an outdoor sculpture in Washington, DC, discusses the artistic process of creating an original sculpture in the landscape of the National Museum of the American Indian. She and her team explain the origin of ideas, the materials, and the people who helped in its creation.

FILMS
SCREENING DAILY: A Thousand Roads
May 1, 2008–May 31, 2008
11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays
Washington DC
Rasmuson Theater

(2005, 43 min.) U.S. Director: Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho).

An emotionally engaging film, A Thousand Roads is a fictional work that illustrates the complexity and vibrancy of contemporary Native life by following the lives of four Native people living in New York City, Alaska, New Mexico, and Peru. For ages 12 and up.

FILMS

DAILY SCREENINGS
Amazonia Indígena: A View from the Villages

May 1, 2008–May 31, 2008
12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Daily
Washington DC
Rasmuson Theater

Marangmotxingo Mïrang/From the Ikpeng Children to the World (2002, 35 min.) Director: Kumaré Txicão (Ikpeng), Karané Txicão (Ikpeng), and Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão (Ikpeng). Produced by: Video nas Aldias/Video in the Villages.
In Ikpeng with English subtitles.
In the Xingu Park in the Mato Grosso, four Ikpeng children, filmed by videomakers from their community, introduce their village—its leaders, their friends, adult work—in a video letter addressed to other children.