Mountain Time Arts presents: Adam Sings In The Timber, “Indigenizing Colonized Spaces”

Event will take place on Saturday, July 20^th, 2019 at Story Mill Community Park in Bozeman, MT

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS (MTA) is commissioning a new temporal public art project by photographer Adam Sings In The Timber for the opening of Story Mill Community Park. This project is part of Mr. Sings In The Timber’s “Indigenizing Colonized Spaces” series. In this series, the artist constructs stunning color portraits of Indigenous women wearing traditional regalia in urban cities within the United States. Sings In The Timber photographs women who are descended from tribes that originally lived in specific regions. For this upcoming work, Sings In The Timber is creating five portraits with an intertribal group of five women who reside in the Gallatin Valley, using familiar Bozeman landmarks as his backdrops. The featured women are community leaders, artists, activists, and students, and include: Florence Doyle (Apsaalooke), Alisha Nicole Fisher (Tsitsistas and Apsaalooke), Shakira Glenn (Apsaalooke), Jaya King (Amskapi Pikuni) and Francesca Pine Rodriguez (Apsaalooke and Tsitsistas). 

Sings In The Timber’s portraits help us to see familiar sites in new ways. The portraits signal to the viewer that wherever we are in the Americas, we are on Native land. Sings in The Timber’s new portraits will be displayed as banners on Story Mill Community Park’s promenade, along with artworks presented by other artists and local organizations. The grand opening of Story Mill Community Park will be free and open to the public. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adam Sings In The Timber is an enrolled member of the Crow (Apsaalooke)Nation in Montana, USA. Adam was born in Montana and grew up in the Midwest of the USA. He studied photojournalism at the University of Montana, Missoula. Currently based in Chicago, Illinois, his work captures the beauty and complexities of Native American culture without shying away from the realities of poverty, addiction, and abuse. His photo-making process ethically portrays Indigenous communities through art and documentation. Sings In The Timber’s work, combining documentary photography and portraiture, will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago. Previous exhibitions include First Voice Art Gallery at the American Indian Center, Chicago; Paramount Theatre Gallery, Seattle; Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois-Chicago; Harold Washington Library, Chicago; Gallery OTR, Cincinnati, Ohio; and King Street Station, Seattle, Washington. His photojournalism has been published in The Guardian, Indian Country Today, Indian Peoples Magazine, USA Today, and the New York Times, among others. He has lectured widely on the importance of Indigenous people documenting their own culture at institutions including Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Brown University, and the University of Colorado Boulder. For more about Sings In The Timber, visit: www.singsinthetimber.com. 

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS (MTA) produces inventive public art projects that enliven our relationships to the history, culture, and environment of the Rocky Mountain West. We cultivate relationships among artists, scholars, and community members to conduct research and produce artworks about critical issues in Southwest Montana. MTA is committed to social and environmental justice. We understand collaborative and inclusive inquiry as a means to generate new knowledge and work toward solutions for all. MTA participants share perspectives and build a culture of engagement and transformation, leading us to a resilient community. To learn more about Mountain Time Arts, visit: www.mountaintimearts.org.