Jean Chaudhuri: 'What’s Life All About?'

This exhibition’s title comes from a poem by the author and community leader Jean Chaudhuri, whose work and life highlights a central part of her life: what it means to give back to your community from an Indigenous perspective. A citizen of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, Chaudhuri became the Director of the Traditional Indian Alliance for Greater Tucson and the Executive Director of the Tucson Indian Center in 1972. An author, playwright and poet, she wrote the comedic play "Indians Discover Christopher Columbus" for the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landing on this continent. She wrote the book "A Sacred Path: The Way of the Muscogee Creek'" with her husband, Joy Chaudhuri. The Labriola National American Indian Data Center shares Jean Chaudhuri’s collection so that others may feel the love she carried for the Indigenous community here in Phoenix and Tucson. A special opening reception will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 7 p.m.–9 p.m.  The installation is free to the public and open on Mondays–Thursdays from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. through Nov. 23.  For more information, go to https://newcollege.asu.edu/artspacewest

Jeffery Kennedy

School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

602-543-6025

jtkennedy@asu.edu

https://artspacewest.asu.edu