John Hitchcock is a contemporary artist and musician of Comanche, Kiowa, and Northern European descent based out of Madison, Wisconsin. He will speak about his current works in multimedia, neon, textiles, printmaking, sound and video to reclaim narratives of resilience and survival. He uses visual storytelling to understand his relationships to community, land, and culture.
Hitchcock has been the recipient of The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant, New York, the Jerome Foundation Grant, Minnesota, the Creative Arts Award, and the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts and the Kellett Mid-Career Award at the University of Wisconsin. Hitchcock’s artwork has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Portland Art Museum, Missoula Art Museum, North Dakota Museum of Art, International Print Center New York, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the American Culture Center in Shanghai, China, the Museum of Wisconsin Arts, and The Rauschenberg Project Space, and in the Air, Land, Seed exhibit on the Venice Biennale 54th International Art at the University of Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.
