The groundbreaking exhibition Hearts of our People: Native Women Artists opens at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington DC on February 21, 2020.
From https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/native-women-artists: "This landmark exhibition is the first major thematic show to explore the artistic achievements of Native women. Its presentation at SAAM’s Renwick Gallery includes 82 artworks dating from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork, to sculpture, time-based media and photography. At the core of this exhibition is a firm belief in the power of the collaborative process. A group of exceptional Native women artists, curators, and Native art historians have come together to generate new interpretations and scholarship of this art and their makers, offering multiple points of view and perspectives to enhance and deepen understanding of the ingenuity and innovation that have always been foundational to the art of Native women."
The exhibition will open with a welcome and land acknowledgement at 10:00 am (details here), followed by a gallery talk by curators Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves at noon (details here).
The exhibition runs until May 17, 2020.
Related events:
In Charlottesville: February 26, 6:00 pm, Lecture by Adriana Greci Green, "Exceptionally Creative: A Virtual Tour of Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists", Campbell Hall 158, UVA School of Architecture. Details here.
In Washington DC: March 28, 2:00 - 5:30 pm, Symposium: Thoughts of our People from Hearts of our People, National Museum of the American Indian. Free, seating is first-come, first-served. Details here.