EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
WASHINGTON
EXHIBITIONS OUR UNIVERSES: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHAPINGOUR WORLD
OUR LIVES: CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND IDENTITIES
AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS AND GAMES
WINDOW ON COLLECTIONS: MANY HANDS, MANY VOICES
RETURN TO A NATIVE PLACE: ALGONQUIAN PEOPLES OF THE CHESAPEAKE
INDELIBLE: THE PLATINUM PRINTS OF LARRY MCNEIL AND WILL WILSON THROUGH JAN. 5, 2015
CERAMICA DE LOS ANCESTROS: CENTRAL AMERICA’S PAST REVEALED THROUGH FEB. 1, 2015
NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS THROUGH FALL 2018
Larry McNeil, Tlingit/Nisga’a, b. 1955, Sunrise Stroll Across the Wastelands, from The Home Planet, Global Climate Change series, 2013. Platinum print.
EXHIBITIONS:
INDELIBLE: THE PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS OF LARRY MCNEIL AND WILL WILSON Through Jan. 5, 2015 Sealaska Gallery, Second Level By the end of the 19th
century, the platinum
print process was of primary importance to art photographers, valued for its permanence, wide tonal variation and “fuzzy” aesthetic. Photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, Ger- trude Kasebier, and Joseph Keiley famously printed their photographs of North Ameri- can Indians on platinum paper, using the highly romanticizing softness of the prints to represent the “Vanishing Race.” Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa) and Will
Wilson (Diné/Bilagaana) challenge this visual ideology. McNeil uses the platinum process to topple expectations of what constitutes the Native portrait and, more generally, Western conceptions of portraiture. Wilson creates portraits of “today’s Indians” on metal plates, then digitizes the plates, makes large-scale digital negatives from the scanned images, and uses historic printing processes in a wet darkroom – calling attention to the manufac- tured nature of all photographic images.
NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS Through Fall 2018, Fourth Level Gallery Nation to Nation examines treaty-making between American Indians and European powers, and between American Indians and the nascent United States, when those treaties were serious diplomatic nation-to-nation agreements based on the recognition of each nation’s sovereignty. The exhibition then examines the shift in U.S. policy toward Indians and the way that the United States subsequently used treaties to gain land as it expanded westward. The exhibition ends by examining important 20th
century legislation
upholding American Indian treaty rights. More than 125 objects from the Museum’s collection and other lenders, including origi- nal treaties, archival photographs, wampum belts, textiles, baskets and peace medals, will be featured.
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