Intersections: Native Artists Panel Talk 

About

The Tweed Museum of Art invites you to partake in a panel discussion about the current exhibition Intersections.
Dyani White Hawk, Steve Premo, and Karen Savage, the featured artists, will participate in a panel conversation moderated by Professor Jill Doerfler, Chair of the UMD American Indian Studies Department. They will address several topics, including their careers, artistic styles and themes, and discuss how their work intersects with other artists.
Intersections, an exhibition of contemporary Native art from Minnesota-based artists, features works primarily from the Tweed Museum collection. The exhibition highlights significant artists, beginning with George Morrison and Patrick Desjarlait, who were at the forefront of the contemporary Native art movement and have influenced artists since then. It is a continuation of the Tweed Museum’s focus on the development of Native arts in our region.
The exhibition shows how these particular artists have informed each other and how they intersect in an aesthetic field with a mutually recognized canon as to artistic style, medium, and subject matter. While each artist has an individual artistic voice, combined they amplify a strong, distinct, and unifying voice, which has influenced the contemporary national and international art world. The artists express compelling visual narratives, and each tell a culturally powerful story, sometimes based on oral tradition. They advocate for socio-political justice by requiring audiences to think more about Native people’s place in American history and current society.

The event is free and open to the public but registration is required as space is limited. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intersections-native-artists-panel-talk-ti…