Ellen Noel Art Museum
Name:
Ellen Noel Art Museum
Date:
December 24, 2016
Event Description:
Ellen Noël Art Museum Presents: Spirit Lines: Helen Hardin Etchings Spirit Lines, December 15, 2016 – March 26, 2017 Helen Hardin Etchings, a collection of copper plate etchings, features all twenty-three, number one editions completed by the artist from 1980 - 1984. This body of work has only recently been assimilated and shown in its entirety. Helen Hardin was the most significant Native woman artist during her lifetime and created avenues for other Native women to break from traditionalism. This exhibition includes three etchings portraying women that have become known as her ‘Woman Series’. Changing Woman, Medicine Woman and Listening Woman suggests an autobiography of the last three years of Hardin’s life. Hardin spoke of the series with Jay Scott author of ‘Changing Woman The Life and Art of Helen Hardin’ (1989). Hardin was completing Medicine Woman when she found out she had breast cancer. She said, “It was almost as if I needed that person, that healing spirit.” In the spring of 1984 Hardin stated, “Listening Woman is the woman I am only becoming now. She’s the speaker, she’s the person who’s more objective, the listener and the compassionate person.” For more information, contact Amanda Lopez, 432-550-9696, www.noelartmuseum.org Ellen Noël Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information visit: www.noelartmuseum.org or call (432) 550-9696
