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On the Cover: “If you’ve never been in love, you won’t understand her ice cream nudes; edible strawberry, coffee, blueberry bodies, inviting you to taste,” wrote a publicist about Kay WalkingStick’s pastel silhouettes in 1969. The first ever retrospective of her long, prolific career Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, opens November 7 in the Third Level Gallery at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. and runs through Sept. 18, 2016.
Detail from Kay WalkingStick. Me and My Neon Box, 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 54" x 60". Collection of the artist.
INDIAN KAY
NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERI CAN FALL 2015
WALKINGSTICK +
LIFETIME RETROSPECTIVE
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS THE REAL STORY OF THE MAWOOSHIN
FIVE...AND A LOT OF BOGUS HISTORY .............
INDIAN WOMEN WARRIORS OF THE WAR OF 1812 .............
TRUTH, RECONCILIATION AND BALLET
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KAY WALKINGSTICK: PASSION AND PLACE In a lifetime of varied styles, the Cherokee artist returned again and again to landscapes, “a living synthesis of human presence and place.” A major retrospective opening November 7 at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., will show the range of her long career, from her early pastel nudes to her famed diptychs.
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GOING HOME STAR: RECONCILIATION BY BALLET With substantial indigenous guidance, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is turning harrowing aspects of First Nations history into acclaimed ballets. It is following its signature work, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, with the new Going Home Star, inspired by the Truth and Reconcilia- tion Commission examination of Canada’s Native residential boarding schools.
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PHOTO BY LEE STALSWORTH, FINE ART THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC.
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