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Nummeehquantamūmun
Nummeehquantamūmun
June 3 – September 30
nia holley, Nipmuc, is reintroducing corn in the Museum’s interior courtyard as a process to reawaken the mortar and return corn to this place. This mortar is one of many mortars held by the Concord Museum that have been used for a variety of purposes by Indigenous communities, including processing food, medicines, and pigments.
Through the planting of corn, Nummeehquantamūmun evokes a complex and multilayered process of remembering that includes the corn, the mortar, and all of us bearing witness.
In collaboration with nia holley, the Museum will be adding interpretive labels about the project in the interior courtyard later this summer. The Museum will also hold a public program with her in the fall to discuss the installation and process, as well as to promote conversations around topics relating to memory, food, and relationships.
About the Artist: nia holley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by what survival and healing look like within Black and Indigenous communities. Her work ranges from printmaking, ceramics, metalsmithing, and traditional arts to bringing tribal communities together around food justice, agroecology, land, and history. She strives to cultivate relationships across tribal borders to rebuild a more inclusive and historical process of kinship and survival. She has actively engaged with Indigenous-led grassroots organizations as an outreach and project coordinator and has participated in Nipmuc programs since before she could walk and talk. nia is a co-founder of the Eastern Woodlands Rematriation collective.