10/06/2026
Join us this Friday October 9th from 5-8pm for the Opening Reception of “ASKASQÁYUW WACUW:
Green Hill” Guest Curated by Shinnecock Indian Nation artist Jeremy Dennis
On view: October 9–November 30, 2026
Opening Reception: October 9, 5–8 PM
North Fork Art Collective, 207 Main Street, Greenport, NY
GREENPORT, NY — North Fork Art Collective presents ASKASQÁYUW WACUW (Green Hill), a group exhibition guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, Shinnecock artist and Lead Artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio. Bringing together artists from the Shinnecock Indian Nation alongside Indigenous artists who have participated in Ma’s House residency programs, the exhibition considers relationships between land, memory, transformation, and Indigenous presence on Long Island.
The exhibition takes its name from “Green Hill,” one of the earlier names for what is now Greenport. Historical accounts describe a prominent hill that once marked the landscape before it was eventually leveled, with its earth used to expand parts of the developing commercial waterfront. ASKASQÁYUW WACUW uses this history as a starting point to ask what happens when land is physically changed, occupied, renamed, or remembered after it is gone.
Through contemporary Indigenous perspectives, participating artists explore green as color, landscape, grass, plant life, medicine, growth, and renewal—as well as a way to think about land loss and what may exist today only through memory. Rather than treating landscape as a passive backdrop, ASKASQÁYUW WACUW considers land as a living archive carrying history, relationships, absence, survival, and possibilities for the future.
