04/04/2025
Two Spirit: Dual Natures runs from April 4 - May 2 and showcases artist-made costumes and the gallery transformed into an immersive backdrop that will be activated with three drag performances: Friday, April 4: Opening Performance @ 4pm
Friday, April 18: Performance w/Guest speaker, Kimberly Lining, founder of MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) Search and Hope Alliance @ 4pm
Friday, May 2: Final Performance & Reception @ 4pm
Performances and the reception are free and open to everyone!
Cannon Gallery of Art in Campbell Hall proudly presents a narrative exhibition and series of drag performances: Two Spirit: Dual Natures, Indigenous Drag Perspectives on Climate Change. The exhibit and drag performance series feature the work of local drag artists, Anakoni Baker and Luca Fitzgerald with creative direction from Jessica Rehfield.
The following is from Baker and Fitzgerald’s statement on this project:
This exhibit represents our relationship to Nature in three parts: a relationship of appreciation and harmony within our cultures’ relationship to Nature; separation from this relationship through disruptive development, pollution, exploitation and extraction practiced by Western culture; and Nature’s response to this imbalance through climate change.
We are two healers who are furious at the exploitation of Nature and humanity; our rage is the aftermath, carried in these costumes and activated in performance. The forces represented are our mirror for the forces of disruption we see in the balance of the natural world and in our relationship to Nature. This exhibit also shares our cultures, our Two Spirit experience, and connection to our Mother, the earth through our Drag practices.
