EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2013
SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
WASHINGTON
EXHIBITIONS OUR UNIVERSES: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHAPING OUR WORLD
OUR PEOPLES: GIVING VOICE TO OUR HISTORIES
OUR LIVES: CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND IDENTITIES
RETURN TO A NATIVE PLACE: ALGONQUIAN PEOPLES OF THE CHESAPEAKE
WINDOW ON COLLECTIONS: MANY HANDS, MANY VOICES
EXHIBITIONS
AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS AND GAMES Window on Collections, Third Level Overlook
This exhibition presents more than 100 ob- jects that illustrate how Native children play, by competing in ball games, dressing up dolls or playing in the snow. But Native children’s toys and games are more than playthings. They are ways of learning about the lives of grown men and women and the traditions of families and communities. The toys, games and clothing in these cases come from all over North, Central and South America and represent more than 30 tribes.
CERAMICA DE LOS ANCESTROS: CENTRAL AMERICA’S PAST REVEALED Open through Feb. 1, 2015 W. Richard West Jr. Contemporary Arts Gallery/3M Gallery, Third Level
This exhibition illuminates Central America’s diverse and dynamic ancestral heritage with a selection of more than 120 objects. For thousands of years, Central America has been home to vibrant civilizations, each with unique, sophisticated ways of life, value sys- tems and arts. The ceramics these peoples left behind, combined with recent archaeological discoveries, help tell the stories of these dy- namic cultures and their achievements. The exhibition examines seven regions represent- ing distinct Central American cultural areas which are today part of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
Curators have selected objects from the museum’s collection of over 12,000 ceramic pieces from the region, augmenting them with significant examples of work in gold, jade, shell and stone. These objects span the period from 1000 BC to the present and il- lustrate the richness, complexity and dynamic qualities of Central American civilizations that were connected to peoples in South America, Mesoamerica and the Caribbean through social and trade networks that shared knowledge, technology, artworks, and systems of status and political organization.
GRAND PROCESSION: DOLLS FROM THE CHARLES AND VALERIE DIKER COLLECTION Open through Jan. 5, 2014 Sealaska Gallery, Second Level
This exhibition celebrates Native identity through 23 meticulously crafted objects that are much more than dolls. Traditionally made by female elders using buffalo hair, hide, por- cupine quills and shells, figures like these have long served as both toys and teaching tools for American Indian communities across the Western Hemisphere. Outfitted in the intri- cate regalia of a powwow procession, these figures – on loan from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection – represent Plains and Plateau tribes and the work of five contem- porary artists: Rhonda Holy Bear (Cheyenne River Lakota), Joyce Growing Thunder (As- siniboine/Sioux), Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (Assiniboine/Sioux), Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Assiniboine /Sioux) and Jamie Okuma (Luiseno/Shoshone-Bannock). Their superb craftsmanship and attention to detail imbue these figures with a remarkable presence and power, turning a centuries-old tradition into a renewed art form.
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