Reflections: Native Art Across Generations

Exhibition

Reflections: Native Art Across Generations

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Curated by Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas
Lily Hope is a Mellon Indigenous Arts Visiting Artist at UVA from January 22-25, 2019. Click here for the residency program schedule. Reflections: Native Art Across Generations brings together historic Native American art drawn from the collections of The Fralin Museum of Art with the work of several distinguished contemporary Native artists: Teri Greeves, Wendy Red Star, Lily Hope and Kay WalkingStick. This exhibition establishes connections between past and present creative traditions and forms, exploring the idea of legacy and the meanings and inspirations that works of art carry through the generations. The invited artists also provide personal perspectives that link their work with the aesthetic artistry, technical skill, cultural knowledge and mastery of media that sustain indigenous artistic practices. Artists today create within established formal traditions but are also fully engaged with contemporary art discourses of personal and cultural identity, place, and the legacies of colonization.    
Reflections: Native Art Across Generations