AICHO’s Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center

AICHO’s Indigenous Writer Series continues with the next event featuring Minnesota Poet Laureate Gwen Westerman and Linda LeGarde Grover. This event will take place on May 18, 2024 between 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at 212 West 2nd Street, Duluth, MN. In their session, Westerman and LeGarde Grover will each talk about their books, read an excerpt, participate in a Q&A segment, and sign books. Parking for the event is free and is located in the parking lot across from the gallery.

AICHO will host its first-ever love-themed market, the Zaagi’idiwin Tour 2024. Community members can take loved ones on a stroll through the market where they can purchase creative and original love-themed art prints, jewelry, sweets, and more. This pop-up market event is intended to make Valentine's Day gift shopping less stressful and more meaningful. Community members can connect with and support 20 Indigenous and BIPOC entrepreneurs. This market will center Indigenous and BIPOC entrepreneurs, following AICHO's mission to create spaces and opportunities for these creators. In addition to early Valentine’s Day shopping, community members can enjoy other activities such as live music by two Indigenous musicians, a photo booth, a free Valentine gift basket drawing, and face painting. The event is funded by the First Peoples Fund.

AICHO Galleries is honored to bring together Gordon Coons (Lac Courte Oreilles) and Steven StandingCloud (Red Lake) in the group art exhibition “Mazinibii’igewininiwag: Two Woodland Artists.” This art exhibition runs between November 6 - December 29, 2023 (M-F 10am - 5pm). Explore the power of connection to nature, culture, spirituality, and Ojibwe realities (past and present) through Coons and StandingCloud’s strikingly bold and meaningful Anishinaabeg Woodland symbolic imagery. Gordon Coons is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and Ottawa and Potawatomi from Michigan from his mother’s side. Gordon is a self-taught painter, printmaker, and fumage artist. He paints in the Ojibwa Woodland style and creates smoke art by burning cedar. Coons draws inspiration from his Anishinaabe heritage and his bright color palette comes from the natural Great Lakes region. “I also enjoy incorporating playfulness in my images, telling stories of relationships between Western...