First American Art Magazine No. 24, Fall 2019 (Oct–Dec) | Page 4
Art for a New Understanding
Native Voices, 1950s to Now
August 29, 2019 – January 12, 2020
2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC
nasher.duke.edu/voices
Dana Claxton, Cultural Belongings (detail), 2015. LED firebox with transmounted Lightjet Duratrans,
72 × 96 inches (182.88 x 243.84 cm). Collection of Eira Thomas. © Dana Claxton.
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now was organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
The exhibition was co-organized by independent curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/Tagish
First Nation in the Canadian territory, Yukon), Mindy Besaw, curator of American art at Crystal Bridges,
and Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts at the Institute of
American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sotheby’s Prize.
At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is was made possible by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust,
with additional support from The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions.