How We Still Look At and Talk About Indians and Their Art

May, 12, 2015.

Patricia Marroquin Norby and Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, or We're History, have written a thoughtful article about how American Indian art is currently written about and how it often perpetuates marginalizing stereotypes which were popular during the 1850's.

"While much of the commentary surrounding this exhibition has been laudatory – and there is much to praise – the reviewers have also employed tired tropes, language that could just as likely be found in nineteenth-century dime novels and melodramatic odes to the “noble savage.” Taken together, these reviews show the persistence and power of that language. They tell us that as a society, we’ve made little progress in moving beyond worn out stereotypes bequeathed from centuries past."

-Patricia Marroquin Norby & Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, We're History.

To read the full article, click here.

For more information,

Visit:

• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Indiens Des Plaines
• Musée du Quai Branly
• A Tale of Woe and Glory
• Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, May 7, 2015.
• Plains Indians saga finds artistic expression at the Met
• Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe, March 28, 2015.
• This Dazzling New Met Exhibit Shows Why The Plains Indians Couldn't Live Without Art
• Jonathon Keats, Forbes, March 16, 2015.
• Moving Pictures: Plains Indian art at the Metropolitan Museum
• Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, March 16, 2015.
• Full Circle: Plains Indians Exhibit Takes Top Billing at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Theresa Braine, Indian Country Today, March 14, 2015.
• Review: 'The Plains Indians,' America's Early Artists, at the Met
• Holland Cotter, New York Times, March 12, 2015.
• Now at the Met Blog
• Where the Vast Sky Meets the Flat Earth: Framing Plains Indians
• Daniel Kershaw, March 30, 2015.
• Dana Claxton to Perform Original Piece, Fringed, at the Met
• Amanda Malcolm, March 12, 2015.
• The Plains Indians Exhibition: A Milestone for the Met
• Judith Ostrowitz, March 9, 2015.
• Adena Effigy Pipe
• Ohio History Connection
• State Artifact- Adena Pipe
• Profile Ohio.
• George Gustav Heye Center
• Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of the American Indian
• American Indian Community House (AICH)
• Ohio State Fair Butter Sculptures Honor State's History
• August 13, 2014.
• The Plains Indians, Artists of Earth & Sky
• April 21, 2014.
• Traveling Adena Pipe.
• April 11, 2014.
• Ohio's Adena Effigy Pipe Featured in International Art Exhibit
• April 4, 2014.
• Ohio's State Artifact Will be on Exhibit in Paris, Kansas City, & New York City.
• October 21, 2013.