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EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2015


SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK CITY


NYC EXHIBITIONS


MERYL MCMASTER: SECOND SELF JUNE – DECEMBER 2015


CERAMICA DE LOS ANCESTROS: CENTRAL AMERICA’S PAST REVEALED THROUGH FEB. 29, 2016


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY THROUGH JAN. 10, 2016


CIRCLE OF DANCE ONGOING


INFINITY OF NATIONS: ART AND HISTORY IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ONGOING


Meryl McMaster, Meryl 2, 2010. Digital Chromogenic Print, 36" x 36". EXHIBITIONS:


MERYL MCMASTER: SECOND SELF June 12 – Dec. 11, 2015 Photo Gallery Meryl McMaster (Cree) is an emerging artist from Ottawa, Ont., whose work is comprised of visually stunning large-scale photography. This exhibition includes selections from “Sec- ond Self,” a playful but compelling series of portraits which engage with self-perception and constructed identity. This series was first exhibited in the United States in 2013 when McMaster was selected for RED: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, a biennial program of the Eiteljorg Museum in India- napolis, Ind., which honors contemporary First Nations artists through an exhibition, catalog, art purchases, and cash prizes.


CERAMICA DE LOS ANCESTROS: CEN- TRAL AMERICA’S PAST REVEALED Through Feb. 29, 2016 West Gallery This bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition illuminates Central America’s diverse and dynamic ancestral heritage with a selection of more than 150 objects. For thousands of years, Central America has been home


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to vibrant civilizations, each with unique, sophisticated ways of life, value systems and arts. The ceramics these peoples left behind, combined with recent archaeological discov- eries, help tell the stories of these dynamic cultures and their achievements. Ceramica de los Ancestros examines seven regions rep- resenting distinct Central American cultural areas that are today part of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Spanning the period from 1000 BC to the present, the featured ceramics, selected from the Museum’s collection of more than 12,000 pieces from the region, are augmented with significant examples of work in gold, jade, shell and stone. This exhibition is a collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center.


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY Through Jan. 10, 2016 East Gallery Glittering World presents the story of Navajo jewelry through the lens of the gifted Yazzie family of Gallup, N.M. – one of the most celebrated jewelry-making families of our


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