Friday, March 20, 6 – 8pm
Free; registration required.
About the Event
The Barnes is proud to offer a first look at Red Metal Dust, a new installation of photographic landscapes by acclaimed multimedia artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in the Annenberg Court. Join us to preview the 11-panel work and enjoy an evening of poetry and conversation featuring Hopinka in dialogue with writer and curator Candice Hopkins. Learn more about the themes, materials, and artistic approaches that informed the installation, commissioned by the Barnes for the 250th anniversary of the United States. Red Metal Dust opens March 21, 2026.
6pm: exhibition preview
6:30pm: poetry reading and conversation
Seating is limited. Cocktails and light fare are available for purchase.
Speakers
Sky Hopinka
Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) creates video, photo, and text work that centers on personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape and designs of language as containers of culture. His work has screened at the Sundance, Toronto, and New York film festivals and been part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial, and the 2021 Prospect.5 Triennial.
Candice Hopkins
Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) is a New York–based writer and curator whose work explores the intersections of history, contemporary art, and Indigeneity. She is the executive director of Forge Project, Taghkanic, NY, a Native-led nonprofit that cultivates and advances Indigenous leadership in arts and culture. In 2019 and 2022, she was senior curator for the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Sponsors
Lead support for community engagement and family programs is provided by the Comcast Center for Community Engagement at the Barnes. Generous endowment support for community engagement programs is provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and additional annual support comes from David and Julia Fleischner and other generous individual, corporate, and foundation donors.
Sky Hopinka: Red Metal Dust is sponsored by:
Meaningful support is provided by the City of Philadelphia and an anonymous donor. Additional generous support is provided by Dennis Alter, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Mary Jo Grdina and Walter A. Brogan, Margaret C. Hallenbeck, Arthur M. Kaplan and R. Duane Perry, James McKinney, and Sarah Morthland.
Ongoing funding for exhibitions comes from the Christine and Michael Angelakis Exhibition Fund, Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Exhibition Fund, Lois and Julian Brodsky Exhibition Fund, Elaine W. Camarda and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Exhibition Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Christine and George Henisee Exhibition Fund, Aileen and Brian Roberts Exhibition Fund, and Tom and Margaret Lehr Whitford Exhibition Fund.
In addition, funding for all exhibitions comes from contributors to the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Fund.
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