Opening Address and Forum: Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande
Date: 2019-09-29 14:00:00 – 2019-09-29 16:00:00
n At Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque
n Free & open to the public
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This event is part of the opening weekend for Species in in Peril Along the Rio Grande, kicking off the fall season of public programs throughout the region. It features an invocation by Brophy Toledo, Cultural Leader, Jemez Pueblo; an opening address by Kieru00e1n Suckling, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity, who writes and lectures on the threats to, preservation of, and relationships between cultural and biological diversity, and maintains the most comprehensive endangered species research and management database in the United States; and a forum with exhibition Co-Curators Josie Lopez, PhD, and Subhankar Banerjee, and exhibiting artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, who created a life-sized ceramic buffalo skeleton for the exhibition.
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Cultural Leader, Jemez Pueblo
n Joseph Brophy Toledo has served the Pueblo of Jemez in various capacities for over 4 decades. He has worked with numerous indigenous youth groups, his is an adjunct instructor for IAIA, he has worked for as a creative consultant for Robert Mirabal Productions, he has served on the Native American Global Sports Committee, and has been instrumental in various international indigenous projects such as Pueblo Pathways Project and he has traveled to Mexico, Canada and Africa as a First Nations representative for Earth healing and environmental conferences and efforts.
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Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity
n Kieran Suckling is the Executive Director and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity. In addition to overseeing its conservation and financial programs, he created and maintains the countryu2019s most comprehensive endangered species database. Kieru00e1n acts as liaison between the Center and other environmental groups, negotiates with government agencies, and writes and lectures; he has authored scientific articles and critical essays on biodiversity issues. He holds a masteru2019s in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stonybrook and a bacheloru2019s from Holy Cross.
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Artist
n Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, and cut-paper, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity.
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Curator of Art, Albuquerque Museum
n Josie Lopez, co-curator of the exhibition Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande, previously served as Curator at 516 ARTS. She completed her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and her MA in Art History at the University of New Mexico. She also holds an MA in teaching and a BA in History both from Brown University. Her research interests include examining art as a discursive agent in the political arena, modern and contemporary Latin American art, 19th century France and Mexico, and the history of New Mexican art with a focus on printmaking.
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Lannan Chair & Professor, Art & Ecology Program at The University of New Mexico
n Subhankar Banerjee is co-curator of the exhibition Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande His creative, scholarly and activist work over the past two decades have focused on biological annihilation and climate breakdown, and on defending critical nurseries and Indigenous rights in Alaskau2019s Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His photographs have been shown in more than fifty exhibitions around the world; an exhibition of his work will open at the Harwood Museum of Art in December 2019. Subhankar is editor of the anthology Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point, and coeditor with TJ Demos and Emily Eliza Scott of the forthcoming book Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change. Subhankar received a Greenleaf Artist Award from the United Nations Environment Programme and a Cultural Freedom Award from Lannan Foundation.
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