September

“Two years ago, during the last session of the Venice Biennale, the United States was represented, for the first time in the history of the Biennale, by an Indigenous artist: Jeffrey Gibson—an astonishing delay in canonizing Indigenous artists’ authority in the artistic history of their homelands,” writes @saam.niami on @jeffrune in September Project’s first publication, ‘Map of Maps’. Sign up at the link in our bio for updates.

1. Installation view: Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2020.
Photo: Jonathan Dorado / Courtesy of Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. Note: The moccasins featured in this image were commissioned by Jeffrey Gibson on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition and were made by John Little Sun Murie.
2. John Little Sun Murie, I’M GONNA RUN WITH EVERY MINUTE I CAN BORROW, 2019. Buckskin, glass beads, brass studs, brass sequins, cotton fabric, each moccasin 6 × 5 1⁄4 × 15 in. (15.2 × 13.3 × 38.1 cm). Installation view: Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2020.
Photo: Jonathan Dorado / Courtesy of Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York.
3. Jeffrey Gibson, I DON’T BELONG TO YOU – YOU DON’T BELONG TO ME, 2016. Glass beads, tin jingles, artificial sinew, acrylic felt, canvas, over wood panel, 2 parts, each 18.25 × 24 × 3 in. (46.4 × 61.0 × 7.6 cm). Installation view: Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2020.
Photo: Jonathan Dorado / Courtesy of Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. @sikkemamalloyjenkins