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Then a Cunning Voice Quilt Exhibit Reception

  • Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand Street New York, NY, 10002 United States (map)

Quilt Exhibit: Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars by Maggie Thompson and Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Exhibit Reception at Abrons Art Center
September 26th 6 - 9pm
Fireside stories at 7pm
466 Grand St., LES, NYC

An installation of 84 hand-sewn, community-made quilts designed by Makwa Studio textile artist Maggie Thompson that served as a platform for Emily Johnson/Catalyst’ performance of Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars. Inscribed with answers to “What do you want for your well-being? For the well-being of your chosen friends and family? For your neighborhood? For your town, city, reserve, tribal nation, world?” The blankets hold the visions and intentions of hundreds.

Fire-side stories for our future, present, and past shared by:
Hadrien Coumans
Emily Johnson
Georgia Lucas
Clarinda Mac Low
Sahar Muradi

Fire tended by:
Maryá Wethers

Photo by Paula Court

Earlier Event: September 6
Then A Cunning Voice... Exhibition Reception
Later Event: May 6
Umyuangvigkaq: Yaanga
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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