Native American art exhibition in New York

Date: 26.09.2005 Source: news agency "Russian Antique"

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Originally, a survey of works by contemporary Native American artists from around the USA has to be presented at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City as a one exhibition. However, due to a great number of artworks, the one show was broken into three, divided by geography. The first show, which opened in 2002, focused on the Southwest, the four states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. ╚Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2: Contemporary Native North American Art from the West, Northwest & Pacific╩ opened this week and runs through January 22. A third show, focusing on art from the area east of the Mississippi, is planned for 2008 or 2009.

The showcase, which covers three floors of the museum, features more than 300 works in a variety of media including clay, glass, ceramics, beadwork, metalwork jewelry and costumes by nearly two hundred artists. The show is divided into four sections. One deals with the influence and inspiration of nature, another with social identity and the human condition, a third with how materials are used, and the fourth with an object's form and function.

The organizers of the event hope that visitors will come away with a sense of the vitality of Native American art. The main idea of the exhibition is to show that Indian art is not dead, it is continuing to change, and our ideas about Indian art have to be reformulated.

The show will travel extensively after its New York run. It will be exhibited in Santa Fe, N.M, Indianapolis, Naples, Fla., Tulsa, Okla., Anchorage, Alaska, and Minneapolis.