Minneapolis Institute of Art Will Stage Major Survey Of Native Women Artists

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is going to stage "Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists". The survey is going to be the first major one on the subject. It will be organized by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, an associate curator in museum Native American art Dept and Teri Greeves, independent curator and a member of Kiowa nation. The exhibition will open by June 2019. The museum has been working for years for the project. It has come together in collaboration with a committee of 22 native and non-native scholars from all over Northern part of America. 115 objects will be incorporated in the show with artists such as Jamie Okuma, Anita Fields and Marie Watt among others.

Ahlberg Yohe said in a statement that contributions of the women have largely been unrecognized even though they have been central to native art. Apart from the exhibition challenging the anonymity of the women artists, it also focuses on how the works are tied to personal and cultural histories of each and every independent artist. The exhibition can be considered to be a succession of exhibition of black women artists during 1960's, 70's and 80's along with Latin American women and Latinx at the same time.

After being run at Minneapolis, it will travel to the Frist Center in Nashville, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.

By: Neha Maheshwari

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