Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • MESTIZA DOS VECES: A VISUAL NOVEL
  • Artesanías de Colombia Collaboration
  • Chapter 7: Panopticon, A Collaborative Chapter with Charley Friedman
  • Chapter 6: Casta Paintings
  • Chapter 5: River
  • Chapter 4: Cornucopia
  • Chapter 3: Travelers & Settlers
  • Chapter 2: Deluge
  • Chapter 1: New Taxonomies
  • Prologue
  • Footnotes
  • EXHIBITION & INSTALLATION VIEWS
    • Casta Paintings, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019
    • Palimpsests, University of South Dakota, 2019
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2018
    • Monarchs, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2017-2018
    • Chapter 5: River, The Union for Contemporary Art, 2017
    • Travelers and Settlers, Black & White Gallery, 2016
    • Travelers, Project Project Gallery, 2016
    • Realty/Reality, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2014
    • Bernice Steinbaum Gallery 2010
    • Collette Blanchard Gallery 2009
  • Nebraska's Fauna & Flora: Other Histories. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Translations and Texts by Thomas Gannon
  • Duncan Aviation
  • Instituto Caro y Cuervo
  • Celebrity Cruises/International Corporate Art
  • Women's Center for Advancement
  • PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE
    • Word Drawings
    • Lace Drawings
    • Black Drawings
  • Statement In Spanish
  • Statement In English
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus), Khewóyuspa (Lakȟóta)
2021
Ink on Tyvek, Sintra panel
16" x 24"

Snapping Turtle

Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus)

Khewóyuspa (Lakȟóta)

Traditional Lakota culture followed a lunar calendar, with thirteen months of twenty-eight days. Because the khéya (turtle) had “13 large scales on its back, and 28 small scales around the shell,” it “became an important symbol in Lakota society.” Thus the “spirit” of the khéya is “the guardian of life, longevity and fortitude. An amulet in the shape of a keya is made for every newborn baby in many families” (Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center, “Keya”).

 

Plains Coreopsis

Coreopsis tinctoria (Nuttall)

Čhaŋȟlóǧaŋ wakȟályapi (Lakȟóta)

The Lakota name translates literally as “boiling weed.” And so, according to Linda Black Elk, “This plant is known as ‘life-medicine’ and the dried plant is used to make a coffee substitute.” Perhaps more interestingly, “Lakota women made an infusion of the shoots [. . .] when they desired a female child” (“Culturally Important Plants of the Lakota”).

Copyright © Nancy Friedemann, 2020