BIOGRAPHY

Laney Day (They/Them/Theirs) is a multidisciplinary indigenous (Cree/Turtle Mountain Chippewa) artist from Montana. They are a writer, animator, painter, beader, problem solver, and friend whose work focuses on generational relationships, ideas of home, and indigenous humor as a form of resiliency. They studied Ethnic Studies at Brown, and Painting at RISD and continue to work and live in Providence RI.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Light that Makes Us is a project that references Indigenous histories of (mis)representations, beadwork, and generational teachings. Designed as a way to stretch the use of material, to build onto and carry tradition, and to consider what it means to only be seen in entirety from far away- The project is to create large scale beaded portraits of Native people made up of Red, Green, Blue, and opaque Black size 11 glass seed beads that when lit from behind mimics the technology of a digital display creating a full spectrum of color.