Encoded Landscapes, Gallery 1832, LabCentral Boston, MA on view until May 19

March 30, 2026

Gallery 1832 presents Encoded Landscapes, an evening celebrating Native American art through conversation, storytelling, and performance. Bringing together artists, community, and audience, the program explores how Indigenous creativity across visual art, design, and performance continues to speak to history, land, and living cultural memory. Through an artist talk, fireside conversation, and a special performance, the evening invites reflection on the ways Indigenous artists reclaim narrative, sustain cultural knowledge, and connect past and present.

At the center of the program is a conversation between artists Jeremy Dennis, Sebastian Ellington Flying Eagle Ebarb, and Patricia “Chali’Inaru” Dones whose practices engage heritage, identity, and contemporary expression. Dennis will discuss his photographic work and the ongoing project of reclaiming Indigenous presence through image-making and archival research. Joining him in a fireside chat, Ebarb, a designer and member of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb, will reflect on how design and visual culture can challenge conventional thinking while reviving and honoring Native heritage. Based in Boston, Ebarb’s work bridges digital and print design with a commitment to holding, reviving, and revering Indigenous knowledge and identity.

The evening will also feature a special performance by Patricia “Chali’Inaru” Dones, a member of the United Confederation of Taíno People. Through embodied storytelling and sound, Dones brings forward ancestral memory and cultural resilience. As she notes, “Educating and re-educating to change the narrative is the only way to persevere in this initiative of awareness.” Her performance grounds the program in lived experience and collective remembrance, creating a moment where voice, movement, and history converge.

The program coincides with Jeremy Dennis: Encoded Landscapes, currently on view at Gallery 1832. The exhibition features selections from The Shinnecock Project, including Nothing Happens Here, Stories, The Sacredness of the Hills, The Lazy, and Rise. Through staged photography informed by historical research, oral histories, and personal narrative, Dennis reclaims Indigenous presence on Long Island while confronting settler-colonial myths and honoring the enduring spirit of the Shinnecock people.

Together, the exhibition and reception frame land as witness, body as archive, and art as an act of sovereignty, resistance, and communal care. Encoded Landscapes invites audiences to engage with Native American art as a living, evolving expression that carries forward community, history, and the enduring power of Indigenous storytelling.

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