EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUE


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 LIVES: CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND IDENTITIES


AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS AND GAMES


INDELIBLE: THE PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS OF LARRY MCNEIL AND WILL WILSON THROUGH JAN. 5, 2015


NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS SEPT. 21, 2014 – FALL 2018


EXHIBITIONS


Delegations of northern Plains and upper Midwest Indian tribes on steps of the White House with President Andrew Johnson, 1867. President Johnson is third from left on middle balcony.


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 and 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 Sept. 21, 2014 – Fall 2018 Fourth Level Gallery Nation to Nation examines treaty making between American Indians and European


SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 85


PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER GARDNER (1821-1882) PHOTO ARCHIVES, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. P10142


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