The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith to curate an exhibition of contemporary Native Art at the New Britain Museum of American Art
The New Britain Museum of American Art presents special exhibition The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, from April 19 through September 12, 2024.
Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) has curated The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, an exhibition highlighting artworks by nearly 50 living Native artists that powerfully visualize Indigenous knowledge of land/landbase/landscape. Brought together by Smith, works by this intergenerational group of artists from across the nation span a range of practices, including weaving, beadwork, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, performance, and video. Their interpretive expressions reflect the diversity of Native intellectual acuity according to individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by a reverence, study, and concern for the land.
The Land Carries Our Ancestors was on view at the National Gallery of Art from September 24, 2023, through January 15, 2024, and will be on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art from April 19 through September 12, 2024.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a range of programs and events, to be announced in the coming weeks. A related book published by the National Gallery in association with Princeton University Press features each artist; a poem by Joy Harjo (Muscogee [Creek] Nation), 23rd US poet laureate; an essay by heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw Nation), director of curatorial affairs at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; an essay by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; and an essay on the art in the exhibition by Shana Bushyhead Condill (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), executive director of the Museum of the Cherokee People in Cherokee, North Carolina.
“The New Britain Museum of American Art is grateful to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith for organizing and sharing this groundbreaking exhibition and to the National Gallery for their partnership and support,” said Brett Abbott, Director & CEO of New Britain Museum of American Art. “The Land Carries Our Ancestors centers Native stewardship of the natural environment and reveals the inspiring social and cultural practices by this remarkable group of artists.”
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