Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at UVa’s Fralin Museum of Art, served on the Native Exhibition Advisory Board for Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, a groundbreaking major exhibition that opened June 2, 2019, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Exhibition curators Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves gathered the all-female board of 21 native artists and native and non-native scholars of indigenous arts from across North America to share knowledge and ideas through a collaborative and communal creative process, and to involve a wide range of indigenous voices. The Advisory Board provided input through all stages of the curatorial process.
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art web site:
Women have long been the creative force behind Native art. Presented in close cooperation with top Native women artists and scholars, this first major exhibition of artwork by Native women honors the achievements of over 115 artists from the United States and Canada spanning over 1,000 years. Their triumphs—from pottery, textiles, and painting, to photographic portraits, to a gleaming El Camino—show astonishing innovation and technical mastery. Read more.
The exhibition has received great acclaim. Read a review in the New York Times here.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists will travel to the Frist Museum in Nashville September 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020, to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. February 21, 2020 – May 17, 2020, and to Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa June 28, 2020 – September 20, 2020.