Benjamin Harjo, Jr., Honoring the Spirit of All Things, 2001, opaque watercolor, 39 3/4 in. x 27 inches. On loan from Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Image courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.Installation view of Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. Photograph by Tom McFetridge and image courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.Dyani White Hawk, She Gives (Quiet Strength V), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 × 1 5/8 inches. Image courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
Space Makers: Indigenous Expressionand a New American Art examines the mid-century American art movement known as the Indian Space Painters and the relationship between those non-Native painters, the Indigenous visual and material culture that inspired them, and the artists from the modern Native art movement who expanded upon such creative explorations through their own visual heritage.
Investigating these relationships for the first time, Space Makers reconfigures the history of American art and reveals its foundations in Indigenous space – aesthetically, geographically, and socio-politically. The free, focus exhibition features loans from the Charles and Valerie Diker collection, one of the nation’s preeminent collections of the underrecognized Indian Space Painting movement, and is guest curated by Christopher T. Green, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College.
Installation view of Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. Photograph by Tom McFetridge and image courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.Installation view of Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville. Photograph by Tom McFetridge and image courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
Burnaway announces Artist's Editions, a short-run of art objects by Southern and Caribbean artists, kicking off with Wrangle Cowboy Poker Set by Shawn Campbell.
Burnaway and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) are pleased to announce our new collaboration: Care in Precarity, an open call for Caribbean writers to reflect on practices of care in the context of climate-based instability and crisis.
Carolinas Editor Robert Alan Grand looks at the life, career, and deeply spiritual work of David LaChapelle on the occasion of his survey exhibition Dear Sonja at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem.
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