Visiting Artist Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's Works on Exhibit

Exhibit Title: "New Works" Dates: May 12 through June 26 Where: C.N. Gorman Museum 1316 Hart Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment Artist reception: 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 7 Artist: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie "New Works," an exhibition of documentary and digital photography, will be on display at the Gorman Museum. Tsinhnahjinnie (Creek, Seminole, Navajo) is a nationally and internationally recognized photographer, who is on campus as a visiting artist-in-residence supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships for Indigenous People of the Americas. She has won many awards for her work including the Western States Federation Fellowship and the California Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Tsinhnahjinnie is known for both her stunning portraits of Native American women and startling photographic messages of Native American history. Tsinhnahjinnie was born in 1954 in Phoenix, Ariz., and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., and later the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she earned a degree in painting in 1981. The exhibition is supported by the museum, the Native American studies department, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, Indigenous Research Center of the Americas, Women's Resources and Research Center, the California Arts Council's Multi-cultural Entry Grant Program and museum clan memberships. The C.N. Gorman Museum is named after UC Davis faculty emeritus Carl Nelson Gorman (1907-1998), a Navajo artist, educator and World War II Navajo Code Talker.

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