Its oldest gallery, Northwest Coast Hall, reopens May 13 with rare cultural objects and a fresh emphasis on the lives of Indigenous people who made them. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Indigenous People”
A New Source of Support for Indigenous Art
By Gotham Rex on March 9, 2022
The Forge Project, based in the Hudson Valley, is Becky Gochman’s initiative to raise the profile of the artists and find homes for their work in collections and museums. Source: New York Times
Miranda Miguel and the Native American Bohemia in Brownstone Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
Indigenous rodeo riders and Wild West actors all gathered at an unassuming townhouse in Boerum Hill. Listening to the grown-ups under the kitchen table, a future experimental theater director. Source: New York Times
A School District Got Rid of Columbus Day. It Didn’t Stop There.
By Gotham Rex on June 17, 2021
A New Jersey school district, criticized for renaming the day for Indigenous people, eliminated the names of all holidays. It might undo that, too. Source: New York Times
Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights
By Gotham Rex on May 7, 2021
She immersed herself in New York’s creative underground, then shifted to globetrotting activism for decades as the founder of Tribal Link. Source: New York Times