“Come and walk through the tall grasses and listen to the birds and insects sing by the creek that meanders through a sunny meadow. Lined with willows and wildflowers where everything smells green and wonderful. This grassy escape is the focus of regional native artists that give their take on this all important and not often celebrated enough corner of our landscape. We invite you to let your imagination run and play. Feel the soft seed heads of the tall grasses tickle your hands as you explore and rediscover the treasures that exist in our precious meadows through an artists eye.”

-Shanti Parks, Curator

 

In the Meadow is presented by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Exhibits and Collections Center in partnership with concept:art+movement, featuring curatorial debut of Community Curator Shanti Parks.

 

Participating Artists include Carson Bates Northern Sierra Miwok, Denise Davis, Mt. Maidu, Jacky Calanchini Nisenan, Jeremy Peconom Mt. Maidu, Kat Solares Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Kimberly Stevenot Northern Sierra Mewuk, Meyokeeskow Marrufo Eastern Pomo, Ray LeBeau Illmawi Band of the Pit River Tribe, Shanti Parks Mewuk, and Viola LeBeau Hammawi Band of the Pit River Nation/Cahuilla/Maidu/Cheyenne River Lakota.

 

Participants are regional culture bearers well known in local tribal communities for their dedication to their art forms, displaying a diverse range of techniques essential to the art of living, from native cordage, to pre and post contact tool manufacture, to the sartorial arts, offering the viewer an engaging introduction to California Native Aesthetics.

 

In the Meadow is presented by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Exhibits and Collections Center in partnership with concept:art+movement, featuring curatorial debut of Community Curator Shanti Parks. In the Meadow will open on Thursday November 13 and run through Sunday, January 11, 2026. There will be an opening reception on Saturday November 15, 2025.