Tentative title: Lighting Pathways: Matriarchs of Native American Art
Suggestion welcome.
Artists:
- Mary Adair (Cherokee Nation)
- Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa)
- Adeline Chaddlesone (Kutenai)
- Brenda Kennedy Grummer (Citizen Potawatomi)
- Ruthe Blalock Jones (Shawnee/Delaware/Peoria)
- Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation)
- Virginia Stroud (Keetoowah Cherokee/Muscogee)
Venue: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Silberman Gallery, 1700 NE 63rd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73111
Timeframe: February to May 2024
Contacts: Tahnee Ahtone, guest curator; America Meredith, guest curator; and Eric Singleton, facilitator and NCWHM curator of ethnology
Artworks: approximately 35 artworks total, about five works per artist. Top priority will be works in the NCWHM’s collection. Others can be drawn from the artists’ collections; J.W.W. Wiggins Native American Art Collection at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Philbrook Art Museum; and private collections near Oklahoma City.
