'Raven Chacon: Three Songs' Opening Celebration

Join us for the opening reception for Raven Chacon: Three Songs which brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. This is a FREE community event.

Kona Sunrise Mirabal and Masa Rain Mirabal (Taos Pueblo) will perform a piece from Chacon’s For Zitkála-Šá (2018) series during pop-up, in-gallery concerts. The For Zitkála-Šá musical arrangements are dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nation, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art.

Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2022 and the prestigious MacArthur Genius FellowshIp in 2023.

Image Credit: Raven Chacon, Three Songs, 2021. Sung by Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi), and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole). Courtesy of Raven Chacon.