Native American Heritage Month
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Native American Heritage Month
Aidan Graybill, curator
https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/spencer-projects/3358
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with an outdoor slideshow of art made by Indigenous people from throughout what is now called North America. The projections will feature works from the Spencer Museum’s diverse collection of Native American art curated by a group of students in KU’s First Nations Student Association, as well as portraits of local Native people taken by Lawrence-based multidisciplinary Indigenous visual artist Mona Cliff as part of her Natives NOW project supported by ArtPlace America and the Lawrence Arts Center. Together, these projections showcase the vibrancy and beauty of Indigenous creativity from the past to the present.
Exhibition images
Works of art

Zig Jackson (born 1954)
1994

Preston Singletary (born 1963)
2003

2004

Carl Sweezy (circa 1881–1953)
early 1900s

unrecorded Ojibwe (Ojibwa) artist
late 1800s–1925

unrecorded Dakelh (Carrier) artist
late 1800s–1950

unrecorded Cheyenne or Newe (Shoshone) artist
late 1800s–1979

unrecorded Aché artist
late 1800s–1976

unrecorded Apsáalooke (Crow) artist
1900s

unrecorded Cheyenne artist
late 1800s–2007

unrecorded Cree artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

unrecorded Cheyenne artist
early 1900s

mid 1900s

Julia Jumbo (1928–2007, active 1940–2007)
circa 1959

Teddy Felix
1970

Henry Crow Dog
late 1800s–1981

Louis Shipshee (1896–1975)
1896–1975

unrecorded Tetsuge Owingeh (Tesuque) artist
1960s

mid 1900s–1992

mid 1900s–1965

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
late 1800s–1963

Minnie S. Foster
mid 1900s–1993

J. M. Boudrie
late 1800s–1968

Irene Tsosie
late 1900s–1994

unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist
1922–1928

circa 1940s

late 1900s

unrecorded Native Arctic artist
late 1800s–1980

unrecorded Plains artist
late 1800s–1980

unrecorded Plains artist
late 1800s–1980

1964

1968

unrecorded Ka’igwu (Kiowa) artist
late 1800s–1980

1977

Rita Belgarde (1918–2005)
1999

unrecorded Plains artist
late 1800s–1980

1870s–1890s

Al Bahe (born 1959)
circa 1986

Nev Autrey (1949–2005)
mid-late 1900s

2000
Events
November 12, 2020
Activity
6:00–7:00PM
Exterior of Spencer Museum of Art, Mississippi St side
November 18, 2020
Activity
6:00–7:00PM
Haskell Indian Nations University, on the exterior of Haskell Memorial Stadium. Turn south on Barker off of 23rd and take first left (Stadium Road). Park in the lot to the north of the stadium. Exit via Perimeter Rd to 23rd St.