Raven Halfmoon’s Flags of Our Mothers, the first major traveling exhibition for the artist, featuring new and recent works made over the last five years, will open at Ballroom Marfa on May 1 and continues through October 11.
Ballroom Marfa has commissioned the artist to develop site-responsive additions to the exhibition that will offer a fresh perspective on Halfmoon’s exploration of memory, ancestry, and form. The title of the exhibition, Flags of Our Mothers, is a tribute to the matriarchs in her life and all the Indigenous women, who over many centuries have created and endured, keeping their stories and traditions present, active, and alive.
Opening weekend, May 1–2, will feature a series of celebratory programs, including an artist talk with Halfmoon and her longtime collaborator, sculptor Tony Marsh, joined by the exhibition’s original curators, Amy Smith-Stewart and Rachel Adams. Guests will also have the opportunity to experience a community meal by Cherokee chef Nico Albert of Burning Cedar Sovereign, along with live music by Night Beats, culminating in an immersive weekend that merges art, food, and ceremony in the high desert.
Halfmoon’s practice spans torso-scaled and colossal-sized glazed stoneware sculptures that honor the artist’s Caddo Nation ancestors and their traditions, including her elders from whom she learned about ceramics as a teenager.