Northern Cardinal
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus)
ᏙᏙᏙ (Tsalagi)
The cardinal was a much less common bird on the Great Plains until the arrival of Euro-Americans, and so its presence in Native history & folklore is largely confined to Native tribes further east, such as the Tsalagi (Cherokee). With the “settling” of the Plains came trees—from an impulse to make the Plains more like “home” (i.e., back east). As creator of the original Arbor Day, Nebraska was a leader in making more trees (and thus more cardinals) a priority: “It was estimated that more than one million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day” (Nebraska Public Media Foundation, “J. Sterling Morton: Founder of Arbor Day”).
For this collection, the artist would like to acknowledge the following people:
Thomas Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnnic Studies, UNL for writing the accompanying texts. Sofía F. Echeverry for her work as studio assistant.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American, mid-career artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She grew up in Colombia as the child of a Colombian and a United States citizen and migrated to the US as an adult. Her art is about the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated, yet still having a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. She is creating an intersectional feminist visual novel that is a multifaceted project comprised of paintings, sculptures, objects, and mixed media that together—and in different voices—weave a synchronicity of dialogues, passages, and punctuations about hybridity and cultural ownership.
- Created: June 2021
- Inventory Number: Northern Cardinal
- Current Location: University of Nebraska Lincoln - Enterprise Technology at Nebraska Hall - 1400 R St Lincoln, NE 68588 (google map)
- Collections: 1. New Acquisitions, University of Nebraska Lincoln