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Mirror Shield Project. Concieved by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. Drone image still by Rory Wakemup. Oceti Sakowin Camp, 2016. A special thank you to Jack Becker from Forecast Public Art and Rory Wakemup at All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, MN, for helping bring over 500 Mirror Shields to Standing Rock, ND.
Mirror Shield Project. Conceived by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. Drone image still by Rory Wakemup. Oceti Sakowin Camp, 2016. A special thank you to Jack Becker from Forecast Public Art and Rory Wakemup at All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, MN, for helping bring over 500 Mirror Shields to Standing Rock, ND.

Special Thanks to our Art for a New Understanding Teacher Advisory Council Members:

Denise Baynham
Ronna Klionsky
Lesley Mace
Kate Newman
Rita Rathbone
Alex Stayer-Brewington

View Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to NowJeffrey Gibson, Radiant Tushka (detail), 2018. Repurposed quilt, assorted glass, plastic and stone beads, printed chiffon, nylon ribbon, canvas, acrylic paint, nylon fringe, copper, and artificial sinew, 95 ½ x 64 x 2 ½ inches (242.57 x 162.56 x 6.35 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. Photography by Peter Mauney.
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Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now

August 29, 2019 – January 12, 2020

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now is the first exhibition to chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art in the United States and Canada. For generations, Native North American arti...

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