Labriola National American Indian Data Center
Join the Labriola National American Indian Data Center to celebrate the opening of “What Life is All About,” a new exhibit about the life of Jean Chaudhuri.
This exhibition’s title comes from a poem by the author and community leader Jean Chaudhuri, whose work and life highlights a central part of her life: what it means to give back to your community from an Indigenous perspective.
A citizen of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, Chaudhuri became director of the Traditional Indian Alliance for Greater Tucson and Executive Director of Tucson Indian Center in 1972. An author, playwright and poet, she wrote the comedic play Indians Discover Christopher Columbus for the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landing on this continent. She wrote the book ""A Sacred Path: The Way of the Muscogee Creek"" with her husband, Joy Chaudhuri.
The Labriola National American Indian Data Center and the ArtSpace at West Gallery shares Jean Chaudhuri’s collection so that others may feel the love she carried for the Indigenous community here in Phoenix and Tucson.
All are invited to attend this special opening reception on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibit is free to the public and open on Mondays through Thursdays from Noon to 5 p.m. through Nov. 23.
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ArtSpace West - University Center Building
Yitazba Largo-Anderson
Yitazba.Largo-Anderson@asu.edu