KOKOM LENA of the First Nation Algonquin. The Photographs of Michael Greenlar

February 2, 2019 to March 23, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION AT ArtRage – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2019 from 7-9pm
OPENING RECEPTION AT Skä•noñh  – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019 from 3-5pm

Syracuse photographer Michael Greenlar documented four generations of Algonquins in the bush of Quebec, Canada for almost 20 years. The work focuses on the matriarch Lena Nottaway and the knowledge she passed on through her 15 children. Lena taught Kokomville how to utilize every element of the environment to become a self-sustaining community. The series is a testament to the cultural survival of the Algonquin people of Barrier Lake, La Vérendrye Park, Quebec, Canada. Despite broken treaties and clear-cut logging, these First Nation people continue to use the land as their traditions dictate.

The exhibition is in partnership with Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

EXHIBITION SPONSORS:
Carl Alberico, George Bain, Mark Briggs, Linda Bogart Greenlar, Phyllis Creamer & Michael Kingston,
Mary Czelusniak, Kathryn Davis, David Dickinson, Margrit Diehl, Barry & Barbara Gordon,
Diane Grafly & Paul Pearce, Tarki & Joe Heath, Christopher Jamison, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Donna & Phil Muhs-McCarten,
Shirley & Larry Novak, Leon & Rosemary Oaks-Lee, Maggie & Roger Reid,
Craig Schlanger & Rosemary Welch, Mary Stanley and Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane

2018-19 SEASON SPONSORS:
Annemarie Deegan, Kathy Flack, Bob Gates & Deborah Welsh, GEGENSATZ PRESS,
Ruth Heller/1199SEIU, Joyce Homan, Mary Kuhn & Dave Thomas,
Kim & Steve Linkinhoker, Anthony Malavenda & Martine Burat,
Sidney Manes, Jeremy McKay, Pam McLaughlin, Lauren & Walter Melnikow, Fred & Diane Murphy,
George Savage, Laurie Gilmore Selleck, Vince Sgambati, Jeff Unaitis and Amy Zamkoff

SPECIAL BENEFACTORS:
Anonymous, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, John & Dolores Brule, Caroline Cargo,
Therese A. Deegan, Edgewood Gallery, Ann Jamison, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead,
Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash and Rick Olanoff & Susan Wadley

SUSTAINING SPONSORS:
Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith

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