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Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Wally Dion

  • Art Practice Department Room 285 2643 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA, 94704 United States (map)

bison quilt, 2023. 127 ¼ h x 106 ¼ w. fabric, copper pipe.
fire quilt, 2023. 113 h x 107 ¾ w. fabric, copper pipe.
grass quilt, 2022. 115 ¼ h x 107 w. fabric, copper pipe.
winter quilt, 2023. 122 h x 108 ½ w. fabric, copper pipe.

Wally Dion, b.1976 Saskatoon Saskatchewan, is a visual artist living and working in Binghamton, New York. A member of Yellow Quill First Nation (Salteaux), Dion holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout much of his career, Dion’s work has contributed to a broad conversation in the art world about identity and power, and can be interpreted as part of a much larger pan-American struggle by Indigenous peoples to be recognized: culturally, economically, and politically, by settler societies.

caterpillar, egg, chrysalis, moth 2018
37¼ diameter, inches.
circuitboards on plywood, nails.

Artist Wally Dion painting red braids

Later Event: April 13
Art Practice celebrates Cal Day