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60 R ituals + Talismans: Begin spring with an exhibition spun around the sovereignty of Indigenous people, specifically the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois Confederacy), represented in the ritualistic wall sculpture of Kelly Tapia-Chuning at Liliana Bloch Gallery. A Cranbrook MFA grad based in Miami, Tapia-Chuning's medium is disassembled serapes married with talismanic materials (copal, hummingbird feathers, quartz crystal saved from her childhood, handmade charcoal sourced from reclaimed mesquite wood, obsidian gathered by the artist's family in southern Utah), which imbue her haunting textiles with meaning. The seven artworks featured (which the artist envisions as offerings) bow to seven generations of Kelly Tapia-Chuning's Voices of the Ancestors / 7 Generations Before, 7 Generations After / Sacred Lineage(s), 2025, at Liliana Bloch Gallery. Hanna Kratsman Robles' Cuéntame Mi Amor, 2026, at Ro2 Art. Art Notes ancestors (through April 11). Family Values: At Ro2 Art, Puerto Rican- born UNT grad Hanna Kratsman Robles, now based in Fort Worth, employs a high- chroma palette to conjure figurative works whose subject is home life and the domestic. Kratsman Robles' depictions of mundane moments and family relationships evoke the intimate, highly patterned canvases of late-19th-/early-20th-century Nabis painters Bonnard and Vuillard. While you're at Ro2, don't miss "Revival Remixed," a lively group roundup presenting talents culled from the 16-year history of the gallery including fresh works created for this show (both exhibitions March 7 – April 4). Let There Be Light: Dallas talent Chris Lattanzio's Mood Elevator might just be the feel-good artwork of this season. Experience two different states of being during your visit to the Museum of Biblical Art, where Lattanzio's immersive installation involving light, color, and music finds inspiration in the artist's heroes: James Turrell and Dan Flavin. The artwork runs dual five-minute programs in an environment that mimics an elevator; visitors can select one or both settings. The artist says, "Up lifts your energy with brighter sequences, warmer transitions, and rhythmic music that give a clean mental boost. Down settles you with cooler tones, slower fades, and calming musical phrasing that helps the nervous system drop back into balance." Both art and academic types are flocking to Mood Elevator, from DMA and Nasher curators to scientists including Dr. Chandramallika Basak with UTD's School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (through August). Old Masters for a New Age: At the Life in Deep Ellum cultural center's Umbrella Gallery, current Cedars Union artist in residence Katherine Covarrubias showcases her latest in "Aporia." Covarrubias' practice "confronts the complex nature of religion." She says of her work, "It occupies a space of aporia — doubting in both directions, suspended between disbelief and longing." The resulting lyrical paintings recall abstracted versions of the grand 16th-century fresco cycles of Italian Mannerism (through March 29). Catherine D. Anspon