Exhibition Opening - Polishing the Chain: The Art of Dennis Bowen
Schedule
Fri Nov 07 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701 | Jamestown, NY
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Reception is FREE to members of RTPI and Indigenous People.Cost is normal museum admission for all others.
Click the link to register or call 716-665-2473.
Please join us on Friday, November 7, for a reception for Dennis Bowen’s Artist-in-Residence exhibition, Polishing the Chain. Attendees will have the chance to hear Bowen give a short talk on his residency and created work, as well as view the artworks on display in conversation with Roger Tory Peterson’s field guide plates from the 1940s-1980s. Light snacks as well as tea, coffee, and juice will be served.
In the autumn of 2024, Dennis Bowen spent a week as Artist-in-Residence at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. With funding support from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, RTPI has expanded its Artist-in-Residence program to include indigenous artists. In partnership with the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Denis Bowen was selected to spend a week at RTPI, where he studied Roger Tory Peterson’s personal library collection, as well as many of his watercolor and gouache works of birds. For his exhibition, Bowen chose to focus on the Haudenosaunee family clan system as well as Haudenosaunee cultural, seasonal, and sustaining relationships with birds. The Peterson Preserve and our museum are located within the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee.
Dennis Bowen is a Haudenosaunee artist with a background in human services, counseling, elementary education, and commercial illustration. He previously served as President of the Seneca Nation, during which time he testified to the Climate Committee of the United Nations about water protection and safety on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Bowen also served on the board of directors for the SEVA Foundation, a global nonprofit eye care organization developing self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. SEVA provides critical eye care services to underserved communities— especially women, children, and Indigenous peoples. Dennis served on the SEVA Board from 2000 to 2006.
Polishing the Chain is proudly sponsored by The Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo.
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311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701Event Location & Nearby Stays:
