Last Supper

Last Supper by C.Maxx Stevens, Seminole/Mvskoke, is a conceptual installation pointing to the negative effect of contemporary diets, and the devastating effect of diabetes throughout native nations. Stevens’ builds a visual narrative based on private and public memories and experiences. The exhibition Last Supper creates a larger social awareness of the epidemic and its dilemma in all of the United States: one out of every six native people will develop diabetes or be affected by the disease. The mixed media installation includes Stevens’ family archives and testimony about the disease and its impact on traditional values and the drastic evolution of diet as well as economy.

C.Maxx Stevens is an Installation artist and Seminole/Mvskoke Nation from the Oklahoma Region. Her art is based on memories of family and culture expressed in three dimensional environments using materials, objects, and technology to build a visual narrative.  She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado serving as the Foundation Arts Director in the Art and Art History Department. C.Maxx has been a recipient of many awards and honors such as 2014 Art Matters Grant in New York, New York, 2005 Eiteljorge Fellowship Award. She has exhibited at the Smithsonian American Indian Museum Heye Center in New York City, New York; C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, California; Eiteljorge Museum of Indian Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Museum of Arts and Crafts, New York, New York; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Montana; and  White Mountain Academy Gallery, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada to name a few.

Last Supper is presented in partnership with the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and will be on display through March 31, 2018,  a reception and gallery talk withC. Maxx Stevens will take place Friday, March 2, from 6 – 7:30 at the Maxwell Museum. The event is free and open to all.