Join the Tlingit/Unangax̂ multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Galanin and Lance (X’unei) A Twitchell, professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, for a conversation about the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections of nineteenth-century Northwest Coast Native art and contemporary Tlingit art. Professor of English and American Studies Sarah Rivett will moderate a discussion exploring land, language, and culture in Tlingit artistic traditions, past and present. Introduced by Bryan R. Just, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas.
This event is cosponsored by the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISIP) Working Group Seminar Series and the Humanities Council.
2021 MODA Curates highlights underrepresented communities through art at the intersection of aesthetics and cultural history
2021 MODA Curates highlights underrepresented communities through art at the intersection of aesthetics and cultural history Courtesy of / Eileen Barroso, Columbia University Photographer The two exhibits are “AABV: Aestheticizing Anti-Black Violence From Critique to Satire,” curated by Marcus Jamison, GSAS ’21, and “Narrative Thread: Gina Adams and Marie Watt,” curated by Erin Gallagher, GSAS ’21. By Vincent Hou | April 15, 2021, 12:25 AM
The punchy drumming from Leikeli47′s “Tic Boom” music video echoes in the gallery, as an audience lingers in front of Lindsey Brittain Collins’s painting of a Black baby doll sitting against a background of concrete. At the other end of the gallery, colorful suspended quilts covered with patterns inspired by the designer’s Native American heritage, quietly recount a history of grief and betr