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IN SEPTEMBER 2019, AN EXHIBITION SHOWCASING FIFTY YEARS of contemporary California Native American art opened at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, entitled When I Remember I See Red.
The project was conceived by artist and Sacramento State University professor Frank LaPena (Wintu), who sadly passed on only a few months before the opening. Because several other featured artists-including Dugan Aguilar, Rick Bartow, Charley Burns, Robert Freeman, James Luna, and Leatrice Mikkelsen-also died recently, California I CAN reached out to Brittany Britton (Hupa), director of Flumboldt State University's Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery, and Mark Johnson, exhibition co-curator and SF State art professor, to initiate an artist archives project and secured National Endowment for the Humanities CARES funding to support it. Susan Gehr (Karuk) was hired as the project archivist, leading teams focused on describing and documenting artist slides, videotapes, audio recordings, and papers for their eventual placement in appropriate collections.
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