Prairie Thunder

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Michelle Sound, “Teresa Sound age 12,” 2023

From Every Photo I Have Of My Mother, 2024, (Photo credit: Ceremonial/Art) (courtesy of the Gallery)

Opening Reception: April 5th, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Artists: Audie Murray & Lucille Fischer, Cheyenne LeGrande and Cikwes, Lori Blondeau, Jessie Jannuska and Michelle Sound.

Prairie thunder cracks like auntie laughs; it rolls like a drum, sending currents through the grass.

Prairie Thunder is a group exhibition of contemporary Indigenous women artists with a relationship to the prairies whose practices are conspicuously informed and sustained by kinship. The title evokes the strength, power, and relationships of prairie people and includes works by Cree, Métis, Anishinaabe and Dakota contemporary artists.

The artworks in the exhibition highlight the power and spirit of healing generated by relationships to the land and kin, with special focus on mother-daughter bonds. Artists Lori Blondeau, Jessie Jannuska, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande & Cikwes, Audie Murray & Lucille Fisher, and Michelle Sound prompt us to consider the rhythm and ritual of relationship through their various practices, which include textile, printmaking, painting, performance, photography, and film. These artists’ practices are power lines; they are the conduits of knowledge, generated through circuits of relationality. Prairie Thunder is a generative site of knowledge transmission, reciprocity, resistance, and futurity.