Indigenous Art Now
Event Details:
Presented in celebration of the upcoming opening of House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans, 1880-Now, this program brings together professionals and practitioners to examine the current state of Indigenous art and consider its expanding global presence across museums, galleries, and art markets.
Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) is a fine art photographer known for her collaborative exploration of Native identity and community in the contemporary world; she is the recipient of many awards and her works are in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the National Gallery of Art, and the British Museum. She was elected and served as a member of the Chemehuevi Tribal Council from 2007-2010.
Steven Gonzalez works with the estate of artist Fritz Scholder in his capacity as a director at the LewAllen Galleries, founded in 1976 by Elaine Horwich, a seminal figure in contemporary Southwestern American Art who launched the careers of noted Indigenous artists, such as Fritz Scholder, TC Cannon, Kay WalkingStick, James Harvard, Jaune Quick-Two-See-Smith, and many others.
Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakhóta) is Curator of Native American and Global Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Art. She began curatorial work with the Minnesota Institute of Art’s groundbreaking exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (2019); she is also an educator and has taught beginning Dakhóta language. She is a member of the Oglála Lakhóta Nation, Pine Ridge Reservation (Wounded Knee).
Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. is Chair of the Board of Trustees at The New York Historical and Co-chair of the Objects Conservation Visiting Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; she also served on UNESCO (Paris)’s committees for cultural heritage protection. She was a Mellon Fellow at Cambridge University and has taught art and archaeology at Brown and Stanford Universities.
Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Ph.D. (moderator, Kanaka Maoli / Native Hawaiian) is Vice President and Chief Curator at The New York Historical, where she has curated acclaimed exhibitions: Lost New York; Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School; Nature, Crisis, Consequence; Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy. She is the curator of House Made of Dawn: Art by Native Americans, 1880-Now and the forthcoming inaugural exhibition Democracy Matters in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy.
Location:
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at The New York Historical, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto photo by Jeenah Moon
