Lines of Continuance
September 4 - January 17
A-Bridge, Ansbacher Hall
South Level 6 terminal bridge and connected escalator are closed for construction until mid-November. For drop-off, please use the terminal side that matches your airline.
Art at Den
September 4 - January 17
A-Bridge, Ansbacher Hall
Featured artists include Crisosto Apache (Mescalero, Chiricahua Apache, & Diné), JayCee Beyale (Diné), Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe), Chelsea Kaiah (White Mountain Apache, White River Ute), Skye Little Cloud (Yankton, Sāmoan, Kickapú), Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand (Sicangu Lakota and Cherokee), Sarah Ortegon Highwalking (Eastern Shoshone/Northern Arapaho), Eugene Rooks (Oglala Lakĥota), Danielle SeeWalker (Hunkpapa Lakota citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Sid Whiting (Sicangu Lakota) and Steven J. Yazzie (Diné / Pueblo of Laguna). Together, their work resists any single narrative about what it means to be Indigenous today.
As a major transportation hub, DEN’s constant movement offers a meaningful lens through which to encounter Indigenous art. Too often, Indigenous peoples and cultures are portrayed as belonging to the past, tethered to fixed places or preserved in static images, textbooks and museum dioramas. Lines of Continuance challenges that perception by highlighting movement as a defining feature of Indigenous life. For millennia, Indigenous peoples have traveled with the seasons, followed ceremonial cycles, and carried knowledge, language and culture across generations and great distances. Long before airports and highways existed, movement shaped Indigenous communities, and it continues to do so today.
The works in Lines of Continuance incorporate painting, performance, sculpture, textiles and mixed media, each reflecting a distinct relationship to land, memory and community.
