Start Date: Mar 28, 2024
End Date: Mar 28, 2024
From: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Free Event - Join us as we celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition. “Dualidad” is a look into the Southwestern United States and Mexican Indigenous tribes, and their connection to community members who identified as gender-nonconforming including the concepts of individuals possessing both male and female identities. Throughout the process of colonization and its devastating effects to regional cultural identities, the respect and recognition of Two Spirit people has been lost, diminishing their roles in society. However, many Two Spirit and gender-nonconforming individuals have worked to regain their power and place in the community and culture through education, healing, and art practices.

This exhibition will highlight the Zuni, Diné, Apache, Laguna/Acoma/Pueblo, Mexica, Rarámuri and Zapoteca tribes who have honored gender-nonconforming individuals as foundational members of their culture as well as artists, medicine people, and visionaries within their given community.

“Dualidad: Indigenous Gender Identity in the American Southwest and Mexico” will be on display through March 2025.

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Photo of: Xochipilli, the flower prince, is the Aztec god of Two Spirit or queer people and is associated with gender-variance and same-sex eroticism while also being a fertility god.