EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2015
Margaret Archuleta (Tewa/Hispanic), Jessica Horton, Robert Houle (Saulteaux), Lucy Lippard, Erica WalkingStick Echols Lowry (Cherokee), Miles Miller (Yakama/Nez Perce), Kate Morris, Judith Ostrowitz, Lisa Seppi and Kay WalkingStick herself. The publication Kay WalkingStick; An
American Artist (National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.: 2015), distributed by Smithsonian Books.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
Join best-selling journalist and author Charles C. Mann.
member of the Cherokee Nation and one of the world’s most celebrated artists of Native ancestry. Featuring more than 75 of her most notable paintings, drawings, small sculptures, notebooks and the diptychs for which she is best known, the exhibition traces her career over more than four decades and culminates with her recent paintings of monumental landscapes and Native places. Her distinc- tive approach to painting emerged from the cauldron of the New York art world, poised between late modernism and postmodern- ism of the 1960s and 1970s. Over decades of intense and prolific artistic production, she sought spiritual truth through the acts of painting and metaphysical reflection. Organized chronologically around themes that mark her artistic journey, Kay Walk- ingStick: An American Artist traces a path of constant invention, innovation and evolving artistic and personal growth through visually brilliant and evocative works of art. The exhibition is co-curated by NMAI
curator Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo) and associate director David W. Penney, in close collaboration with the artist. Ash-Milby and Penney are also co-editors and authors of a substantial companion catalogue, the first of its kind, which also features writings by
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HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATES “THE GREAT INKA ROAD” Sunday, Sept. 13 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Museum-wide This bilingual family day will include music, dance and hands-on activities that highlight the Inka contributions and legacy in the arts and sciences in both the Pre-Columbian and contemporary areas. Visitors will participate in creating weavings like those used to create the amazing suspension bridges in Peru, work with wayruro seeds to create their own bracelet, enjoy contemporary and tradi- tional Andean music and dance and make an Andean-inspired gold pendant or decorate a clay pendant based on the animals in the exhibition. A pop-up planetarium will show- case the unique constellations of the Andean culture. The day will be full of Andean music and dance. Co-sponsored by the National Air & Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Smithsonian Latino Center.
AN EVENING WITH CHARLES MANN Thursday, Sept. 24 6 p.m.
Rasmuson Theater Spend an evening with best-selling journalist and author Charles C. Mann in a conversa- tion with Museum Director Kevin Gover. Mann won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Keck Award for “Book of the Year” for his groundbreaking 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. A cor- respondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science and Wired, Mann has covered the intersec-
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