The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens was built on the traditional land of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation who were forced from the land. The university’s Institute of Native American Studies and numerous other academic and cultural programs bring attention to the history of the land.
Oscar Howe (Mazuha) (Yanktonai Dakota, 1915- 1983), Duel Entre des Sioux (Fight Between Sioux), screenprint, 17¾ x 12½". Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma Norman. Gift of the Charles H. and Miriam S. Hogan Collection, 2004, 2004.018.044.022.
The museum will host the exhibition Collective Impressions: Modern Native American Printmakers, October 16 through January 30, 2022. It notes that the exhibition “will introduce a significant group of Native American artists and an important development in Indigenous self-expression…The exhibition is of utmost importance in a state and region once home to a diverse constellation of tribal nations and on a campus that occupies the ancestral homelands of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek) and Yuchi people.”
T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946-1978), Waiting for the Bus (Anadarko Princess), 1977, lithograph, 37½ x 30". Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the University of Oklahoma Norman, the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection, 2010, 2010.023.0327.
The show includes “an influential group of Native artists, including some of the earliest to engage with the medium, like Awa Tsireh and Gerald Nailor…. Following them came a more experimental cadre of printmakers who sought to transform modern Indigenous art. Oscar Howe, for example, disassembled recognizable aspects of Native culture and ritual into rhythmic, whirling semi-abstractions. With the surging interest in lithography came a group of more satirical, humorous artists, including Fritz Scholder and T.C. Cannon, who channeled a Pop Art aesthetic to address myths surrounding Native American culture. Like Cannon, in her prints Jaune Quick-to-See Smith offers poignant, tongue-in-cheek commentaries that subvert historic and existing power dynamics.”
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