Exciting news about They Had No Time to Say Goodbye! Plus 2 Workshops, Exhibitions and More
The biggest, newest and most exciting event is that our They Had No Time to Say Goodbye collective has teamed up with Amanda Erickson, producer and director of She Cried That Day! This is Amanda’s first feature length documentary. It chronicles the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relative’s crisis through the lens of one Indigenous woman haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder.
We, Patricia Yazzie (Diné), Sandi Ludescher, a New Mexican portrait painter, and I; as well as Lorrisa Orosco (Diné, Apache), a trafficking survivor, and Linda Piper, Black activist, writer, theater director and storyteller, our consultants, share a similar goal to that of Amanda Erickson. We want to see this crisis given the attention it deserves by government, law enforcement and the media. With this goal in mind, I have taught workshops and given presentations about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in England, Portugal, Florida and throughout Albuquerque.
I recently taught two more workshops related to our collaborative multimedia installation, They Had No Time To Say Goodbye, about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The first one was at a local multigenerational center. The second, at The Groove Artspace, where we had a wall displaying some of the scrolls made up of etched and painted x-rays created by over 120 artists from Asia, Europe, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United States.
To those of you who have received x-rays and returned them to us with Indigenous women’s faces etched on them, we are grateful. And to our friends who have not yet returned them, please do so before January 30th.
Once we have the x-rays, we will add red paint to them. Red is the color signifying the missing and murdered Indigenous women’s movement. The x-rays will be incorporated into our installation in the form of long scrolls which will be suspended from the ceiling in the exhibitions of They Had No Time to Say Goodbye. Every participant will be acknowledged.
If you are unable to etch your x-ray, please return it to us as soon as possible so that another artist can etch it.
Participants at the Multigenerational Center in Albuquerque working on their drawings to be etched onto x-rays using scissors (see image below on the right). The image on the left is the flyer for the They Have No Time to Say Goodbye workshops.
X-Ray Etched with portrait of a North American Indigenous Woman. By Lisa Casaus
Accompanying the exhibitions of They Had No Time to Say Goodbye, will be Sandi Ludescher’s oil paintings of actual missing and murdered Indigenous women. These are women whose stories we have been given permission by their families to share.
Portrait of Melissa Montoya, by Sandy Ludescher.
Melissa Montoya was an Indigenous woman (Jicarilla Apache) who went missing in 2001 at the age of 42. No convictions were made and her remains were never found. The lack of news coverage at the time and lack of movement in the case, highlights the struggles of families and activists in finding justice for their loved ones who have disappeared. Melissa was related to Albuquerque Lawyer, Darlene Gomez, who took on her case, as well as those of several other missing and murdered Indigenous persons, pro bono. Here’s a summary of an NBC news article.
Watch our three minute video to learn more about They Had No Time to Say Goodbye. Contact us at rosemarieprins.com if you live in the U.S. and you’d like to participate by etching an Indigenous woman’s face on a 9” x 8” x-ray. It’s a simple process!
Stay tuned for future They Had No Time to Say Goodbye workshops. No art experience necessary!
The youngest participant in our workshops, Melissa Montoya, a high school student. She’s standing in front of our They Had No Time to Say Goodbye wall at the Groove Artspace.
Summer Highlight: In July I returned from Wild Rose Artists Retreat in rural Ontario, Canada.
I spent a wonderful week there working on They Had No Time to Say Goodbye. I painted etched x-rays of Indigenous women with red paint. Then I stitched them together to create the scrolls to be suspended from the ceiling as part of our installation (see image above). I made some improvements to my artist’s book of the same title that will accompany the exhibitions. I also got to spend an extra week in Toronto exploring museums and galleries with family and friends—a bonus!
Even the chickens at Wild Rose Artists’ Retreat in rural Ontario looked plump and happy!
OTHER NEWS
Teaching: My six week online Beginning/Intermediate Painting Course is ongoing. Contact me if you’d like to join a class to see if my course is for you. Classes run for two-and-a-half hours starting at 5pm MT, 7pm ET. Learn to paint with watercolors, oils, acrylics or mixed media. It’s a fun, friendly online class with students of all levels participating.
The cost is $100 for the six week session or $20 per class, payable directly to me. Payment accepted through Zelle and Venmo—Email me at rosemarieprins.com for details.
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Left: Paris scene, oil on canvas by Ron Everest. Right: Author, Coleson Whitehead, acrylic on canvas by Colette Bancroft
June
Juneteenth, Albuquerque City Hall.
The Albuquerque Juneteenth Exhibition examined the topic of Ralph Ellison’s award-winning novel “Invisible Man”. From the website: “Written in 1952 and still relevant today, it explores the psychological and social effects of racism on a nameless Black man in 20th Century America.”
July – August
I had three pieces in Outside Of the Box at the New Mexico Art League’s gallery in Albuquerque.
September/October/November/December
Global Warming is REAL, The Museum of Encaustic Art, in Cerrillos New Mexico. I am honored to have my piece, “Indian Leaf with Yellow,” selected for their permanent collection (photo below). View the online collection.
Two exhibitions at the Groove Artspace, 309 Gold Ave. SW, Albuquerque: SMALLish, and In the Groove. SMALLish ended on November 5th. In the Groove is up through December 19. I have three works in the exhibition. Go see it! The Groove is open Tuesday through Saturday.
12 x 12 at the Harwood Art Center.
Harwood Art Center’s annual fundraising exhibitions feature work by established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. The event includes 200 works that remain anonymous until sold. The reception was on Friday, December 5.
To see more of my work you are welcome to visit my Nob Hill, Albuquerque, studio. It’s open by appointment. The address is 122 Bryn Mawr SE, between Central and Silver. Email me or contact me through rosemarieprins.com to make an appointment. The fall was the time to be out and about in New Mexico! The fall weather was glorious and the changing colors were especially beautiful. A sudden snowstorm put an end to that!
Watch for Fusion Albuquerque’s inaugural edition of Horizon Review coming out in the spring. It will feature an article on They Had No Time to Say Goodbye!
Left: The entrance to my studio. Right: On State Road 14 between Cerrillos and Albuquerque during the fall.
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