Raven Chacon: Score for Coming Storms brings together a large-scale visual score, sound installation, textile, and ink drawings by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné composer and artist. American Ledger No. 1 is drawn directly onto the gallery wall in graphite — a flag, wall, and blanket simultaneously — recounting the creation story of the United States through adapted Western musical notation, descending from pre-history through colonial violence to a final extended black band signaling the erasure of Indigenous land and worldviews. Storm Pattern centers a multi-channel sound installation of drone field recordings from Standing Rock in 2016, surveillance and counter-surveillance interwoven into a sonic vision of collective resistance, its textile score referencing the traditional Navajo weaving design of the same name.
