Art Exhibit & Conversation | June Lee Van Dunk: “Faces of the Land”

Join artist June Lee Van Dunk for her upcoming exhibit “Faces of the Land.” Van Dunk is a Ramapo Munsee multi-media artist whose artistic practice is motivated by the desire to draw attention to and make meaning of an array of devastating current events, from environmental destruction and militarism, to the ongoing injustices that her Ramapo Munsee community faces. In her most recent series, “Faces of the Land,” she depicts the faces of fellow tribal members in order to show that “we are still here.”

The upcoming exhibit, made possible by a grant administered by Arts Westchester, will feature conversation and presentations that aim to shine a spotlight on a number of forces that are currently endangering the water, wildlife, mountains and sacred sites of the Ramapo Munsee homelands. Van Dunk and many of the speakers have fought a long battle to organize against environmental injustice precipitated by a series of outside investors and developers whose projects consistently disrupt fragile ecosystems against the wishes of the Ramapo Munsee community. Guest speakers include:

–Dwaine Perry, Ramapo Chief
–Joe Allen, Filmmaker: “Two Schools in Hillburn”
–Gordon Wren, Retired Director of Emergency Services, Fire Chief & Ramapo Building and Zoning Commission
–Karenna Gore, Founder and Executive Director of Center for Earth Ethics
–Dr. Chuck Stead, Historian

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Government and the New York State Legislature and administers by Arts Westchester.