Eva Brander Blackhawk

Eva Brander Blackhawk (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone) is a mixed-media artist engaging in collage, screenprinting and beyond. Primarily, she collages scraps and memories to create dreamscapes past, present, and future. She might reimagine LIFE Magazine pages of the Alcatraz occupation in the 1960s alongside reworked photographs from Edward Curtis, with her own screen printing and photography incorporated as well. In this way she creates otherworldly representations from her own perspective as a 21st century Native woman. You can find her on instagram @evascollectionofart.

This collage centers an image taken from a LIFE Magazine giving primary source coverage of the Alcatraz occupation. In the photo a man in regalia opens the prison cell for a child. The collage also has a bristlecone pine, some of the oldest living beings on earth- that only grow in Nevada and Utah. I screen printed this collage with a phrase in shoshone from a prayer: oyo paam paan kematu, forever beside the water. My hope is that in the future, regardless of landscape, the shoshone language will persist beside the water.