[PLACEHOLDER: SWALLOWTAIL]
November 22 - December 8, 2024
Student Photography Exhibit Explores Land and Belonging at Local State Parks
“You are not just visitors to this land anymore—you are also stewards who carry responsibility for its safekeeping.”
– Meyo Marrufo, artist and participant in the [Placeholder: Swallowtail] class project
Two concurrent two-week exhibits of student photography will be on display at the State Indian Museum and Verge Center for the Arts. The exhibits, both titled “[Placeholder: Swallowtail],” emerge from a collaboration between Sac State Photo and California State Parks, Sacramento District. Thirty-five senior students in the Photography BFA program spent months researching and photographing the landscape of the State Indian Museum and Sutter’s Fort. Students visited the site repeatedly, learning from Native American contemporary artists, culture bearers and tribal ecological knowledge holders as well as State Parks staff. The focus of the ongoing investigations is how to recognize —and, in many cases, attempt to repair — our relationships to the land we live on.
The exhibits run November 22nd through December 8th.
An Opening Reception will be from 5-8PM, Friday, November 22nd, and the Closing Reception is from 5-8PM Saturday, December 7th, each at both locations.
[Placeholder: Swallowtail] is supported by the Arts in California Parks initiative, a partnership between California State Parks, Parks California, the California Arts Council, by the donors of the Photography Special Projects Fund at Sacramento State, and by the California Indian Heritage Center Foundation.