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Current Exhibition

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Regal Adornment

Works by Chelsea Bighorn

JANUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Opening Reception

Thursday, January 9, 6:00 - 8:00pm

 

 

This body of work delves further into Bighorn's exploration of adornment in relation to the body and Native American powwow regalia. Growing up having attended many pow wows with her grandmother and sister, Bighorn finds herself returning to those memories of watching the dancers in their brightly colored and embellished outfits. Each of these outings was marked in a growing collection of earrings, of which we purchased at the many different powwows or markets that we attended.

Through observation and the closer study of her own earring collection, Bighorn continues to make fringe pieces. Using different methods of beadwork inspired by the edging of beaded earrings, she create these highly embellished pieces. “Regal Adornment” is the accumulation of her love for earrings, contemporary powwow regalia and the fond memories of attending powwows with her family.

Image: Chelsea Bighorn, Untitled (black fringe), canvas, MX dye, black beads, 36" x 84". Courtesy of the artist.

 

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Chelsea Bighorn was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, and is Lakota, Dakota and Shoshone -Paiute. Bighorns work is the result of her combining traditional Native American design with elements from her Irish American heritage. Using this process, she tells her personal history through her art.

 Bighorn has shown her work at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, SITE Santa Fe, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Fransico, and The Center for Native Futures in Chicago, IL. She graduated from The Institute of American Indian Arts in 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts. Bighorn received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiber and Material Studies from School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2024. She currently resides in Chicago, IL where she is an artist in residence with Chicago Artist Coalition.

 

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

 

Metamorphosis: The Art of Transformation

February 13 - March 10, 2025

 

community art show 

 

 

 

 

The laws of physics state that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Therefore, all artistic media—paints, fabrics, papers—榴梿视频 gone through a process of metamorphosis to unite as a finished work of art. The 2025 Dittmar Memorial Gallery Community Show, Metamorphosis: The Art of Transformation, examines this process of transformation. 

By inviting artists to create art using varied media, this exhibition investigates the mediums artists use and how unique applications and combinations of artistic media can stretch the boundaries of art and tell stories of change, evolution, and transformation. 

We explore the question: How can the evolution of art mirror the evolution of ourselves and the world?

Curated by Elyse Malamud & Gabby Gutierrez

  

2025 submissions are now closed. Please check back in late 2025 to apply for 2026 exhibition.

 

 
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OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS:
NORTHWESTERN ATP STUDENT ARTIST OPPORTUNITY
Exhibition will be on view April 4 - May 2, 2025

 

 

In spring 2025, 榴梿视频 University's Dittmar Memorial Gallery is collaborating with SAIC’s on a cross-institutional exhibition. This exhibition will celebrate student artwork and student-led exhibitions at both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and 榴梿视频 University.

Dittmar Memorial Gallery invites current 榴梿视频 student artists to submit their artwork to this exhibition. For more information and to submit your artwork to our joint open call, please visit .

 

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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