Towards Repair

Lora Jost, artist

born 1964

Towards Repair, 2024

Material/technique: pencil; acrylic; crayon; string; rubbing; stitching; butcher paper

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist

Accession number: EL2025.074

On display: Marshall Balcony

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In’zhúje’waxóbe: Return of the Sacred Red Rock

In July and August 2023 the monument was disassembled. The plaque was removed, In’zhúje’waxóbe was lifted off the base, and the base was dismantled. Ownership of the rock, plaque, and base was transferred to Kaw Nation. However, the tribe signed an agreement with the Watkins Museum of History for a long-term loan of the plaque, which is currently on view in their galleries. Local artist Lora Jost was invited to do a rubbing of the plaque and created this work about the plaque’s removal and the community’s responsibility to right past wrongs.