Land Acknowledgment Statement

Work in this exhibition draws inspiration from, and is held on, land that has been the traditional homeland of the Monongahela Culture, Shawandasse Tula, Osage, and Massawomeck peoples. The area of the Southern Great Plains region referenced in the Transitional Spaces series has been the traditional homeland the Kiowa, Mescalero Apache, Comanche and Lipan Apache peoples. The Mohican and the Munsee Lenape were the original stewards of the land in the Rivers, Blocks, and Bridges to Newark Bay project. Native People have stewarded the land for thousands of years prior to European colonization—sustaining relationships with water sources so different from the polluting or nonrenewable extractive practices currently in use today.