Joe Liles, standing next to the cupola on top of Watts Hall.
In Harmony We Must Live
1977
This is the very first signed and numbered lithograph print I ever did! I was the art teacher at an alternative school for American Indians run by the American Indian Movement in St. Paul, Minnesota. Among my many duties at my first job after graduate school was running a commercial art and printing shop in the basement of the school. I used one of the offset lithography presses to print an edition of 150 prints. This print depicts one of the teachings of the Midewiwin Lodge, the traditional religion of the Anishinabe or Ojibwe/Pottawatomie/Odawa Native Americans: It is our responsibility as human beings to live in harmony with all the Creation; the two-legged, the four-legged, the flying things, the crawling things, the swimming things, and the insects.
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