ALL REZ exhibition at Maxwell to close with reception and panel discussion

ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home, Kinship, Life, an innovative, traveling, site-specific, experimental photography exhibition and museological project at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, will close with a reception and panel discussion Saturday, June 27, from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibition features the work of Diné photographer and curator Rapheal Begay. The event is free and open to all.

Visitors are invited to join Begay (Diné), Lillia McEnaney, and Matthew Chase-Daniel for a lively discussion about ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home, Kinship, Life, a traveling, site-specific, experimental photography exhibition and collaborative museological project. The panel will be moderated by Toni Gentilli, Maxwell Museum curator of exhibits.

Hear the Project Team's reflections on taking the exhibit across Diné Bikéyah (the Navajo Nation) in the Axle Contemporary truck this summer, creative place-making with Diné community members in Diné homelands, the significance of contemporary photography from an Indigenous perspective, and what is collaborative museology anyway.

Seating for the 3 p.m. panel is limited to 40 guests. Registration via Eventbrite is encouraged but not required. First come, first serve.

ALL REZ is a multifaceted community storytelling project with ongoing installations in two spaces-at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and in the Axle Contemporary mobile artspace.

The traveling portion of ALL REZ took Begay's photographs to multiple locations across the Navajo Nation in Axle Contemporary, stopping at community gathering spaces in Crownpoint, Gallup, and Shiprock, N.M.; Chinle and Window Rock, Ariz.; and Monument Valley, Utah. The interior of the Axle gallery was transformed into a welcoming space for reflection and conversation with the artist, exploring questions around connections to home, sense of place, and sense of self. Find out more on the project website www.allrez.net.

ALL REZ is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at UNM.