The Feast
By Muncie Arts and Culture Council // PlySpace Residency Program
Date and time
Friday, November 22, 2019 · 6 - 9pm EST
Location
Minnetrista
1200 North Minnetrista Parkway Muncie, IN 47303Description
You are invited to:
The Feast
A project by PlySpace Resident Sydney Pursel
Friday, November 22, 6:00 PM-9:00 PM
at Minnetrista (Cantina)
1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, Indiana 47303
RSVP required through Eventbrite
by Wednesday, Nov 20th
The Feast is an ongoing project that aims to create conversation about the diversity that exists amongst American Indian tribes. For the project, participants are invited to eat traditional Indigenous foods on plates and placemats featuring a single tribal community. During the meal, participants can share with those around them, collectively learning about tribes they may or may not have heard of before. There are 573+ federally recognized tribes in the United States today with their own distinct traditions, beliefs, and customs, but in popular culture, we tend to see the same representations over and over. The goal of this project is to shine light on each tribe individually. To do so, place settings are produced alphabetically from a list of tribes.
The event at Minnetrista in Muncie, Indiana will feature Tribal Nations that start with the letters J, K, L, and M. The Feast changes each time it is presented. For the Muncie Feast, QR Codes will be utilized for the first time. Smartphone usage will be encouraged to research and share photos, traditions, dress, art, culture, histories, and contemporary enterprises of the respective tribes.
Menu featuring foods by Native-owned companies:
Red Lake Nation Wild Rice Pilaf (Ojibwe)
Tatanka Buffalo Jerky (Lakota)
3 Sisters Mash
Red Corn Fry Bread (Osage)
Ioway Bee Farm Honey (Ioway)
Bedré Chocolate Coffee (Chickasaw)
Yanabah Navajo Tea (Diné)
Red Lake Nation Wild Rice Pilaf (Ojibwe)
Tatanka Buffalo Jerky (Lakota)
3 Sisters Mash
Red Corn Fry Bread (Osage)
Ioway Bee Farm Honey (Ioway)
Bedré Chocolate Coffee (Chickasaw)
Yanabah Navajo Tea (Diné)
Participation in The Feast is offered to invited guests free of charge. Space is limited to 40 guests. If you plan to join us, please RSVP through eventbrite for each guest. RSVPs will be accepted until the 40 available place settings are reserved. The evening will begin with a short presentation by the artist.
Project History:
Over 100 people have participated in The Feast so far at the following locations:
Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in interactive, socially engaged, and performance arts. Through art she explores personal identity drawing from her Indigenous and Irish Catholic roots. Some of Sydney's projects are used to educate others about food politics, assimilation, language loss, appropriation, and history in addition to projects amongst her own community focusing on language acquisition, culture and art. Her work has been shown at public parks, universities, galleries, and alternative spaces in Columbia, MO; Fort Collins, CO; Fulton, MO; Iowa City, IA; Kansas City, MO; Lawrence, KS; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Sheridan, WY; Toronto, ON; Ucross, WY; Vermillion, SD; and White Cloud, KS. Sydney received her MFA in Expanded Media at the University of Kansas and her BFA in Painting from the University of Missouri. She was the first recipient of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, received a Rocket Grant through the Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art, was selected for the Indigenous Arts Initiative Residency program through the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission and the University of Kansas, was awarded a BeWildReWild Community Art Grant through the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. Later this year she will attend Vermont Studio Center through the Harpo Foundation Fellowship for Native American Artists and PlySpace through a Residency Fellowship. Sydney is an enrolled member of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.
Over 100 people have participated in The Feast so far at the following locations:
- Kansas City, MO hosted by La Esquina Gallery and the Charlotte Street Foundation as part of Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity Performance Art Symposium
- Vermillion, SD hosted by Coyote Twin Theatre and the University of South Dakota
- Iowa City, IA hosted by Grant Wood Art Colony and the University of Iowa Office of Outreach and Engagement as part of the Art in Public Symposium
- Johnson, VT hosted at the Vermont Studio Center
Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in interactive, socially engaged, and performance arts. Through art she explores personal identity drawing from her Indigenous and Irish Catholic roots. Some of Sydney's projects are used to educate others about food politics, assimilation, language loss, appropriation, and history in addition to projects amongst her own community focusing on language acquisition, culture and art. Her work has been shown at public parks, universities, galleries, and alternative spaces in Columbia, MO; Fort Collins, CO; Fulton, MO; Iowa City, IA; Kansas City, MO; Lawrence, KS; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Sheridan, WY; Toronto, ON; Ucross, WY; Vermillion, SD; and White Cloud, KS. Sydney received her MFA in Expanded Media at the University of Kansas and her BFA in Painting from the University of Missouri. She was the first recipient of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, received a Rocket Grant through the Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art, was selected for the Indigenous Arts Initiative Residency program through the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission and the University of Kansas, was awarded a BeWildReWild Community Art Grant through the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. Later this year she will attend Vermont Studio Center through the Harpo Foundation Fellowship for Native American Artists and PlySpace through a Residency Fellowship. Sydney is an enrolled member of the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.
Questions about the project and participation can be directed to Erin Williams, PlySpace Residency Coordinator at Hello@plyspace.org!