Every generation of artists has the obligation to REPAINT the WALLS of the CAVES
Dive into the Deep History of the Land
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WELCOME to Humanity’s original Art Studios
IN the BEGINNING, there were the RED IRON CAVES.
Since the beginning of time, the underground caves of the world provided us safe spaces for exploring our relationship to the Earth. In these underground caverns, our ancestors painted the walls with the stories of their land, their kinship with the Others, and the visions they found inside. They hand-ground iron-oxide earth pigments with charcoal collected from their morning campfires and began painting the cave walls, and their bodies in these red ochre tones.
Journey us in an underworld portal where the Earth conspires to reveal these ancient visions again.
Red Iron Caves are the traditional sanctuaries for healing both our social and emotional traumas. Pull up your seat close to the flickering lights dancing around the cave and watch the animals come alive on the walls around you. Here is a place where the stories painted by our ancestors find a new home inside your heart.
Join us on our journey into the deep history of humanity.
Red Iron Caves Open Studio 2024
Welcome to WILD BISON BOULEVARD
At the base of the Great Falls of the Ohio in Louisville, Kentucky lies a historical Bison Trace, where ancient herds of wild bison once crossed the Ohio River from Indiana.
Welcome to a tribute to the ancestral megafauna of Kentucky and their role in preserving Kentucky farmland.
This riverfront exhibition celebrates the contribution that American bison made over tens of thousands of years in creating the agricultural fertility of America’s Heartland. It speaks to the deep history of our land, our wildlife and our own humanity.
Take a walk down America’s past with us.