Now open at the Museum of Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, is Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art, a new group exhibition that highlights works from important contemporary artists.
Installation view of Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art with, in the foreground, The Earth Carries a Memory, 2025, by Anita Fields (Osage). In the background is Grandmother’s Garden, 2025, by Julie Buffalohead (Ponca). Photo: E.G. Schempf.
Fifteen exceptional artists are in the exhibition: Norman Akers, Julie Buffalohead, Bruce Caesar, June Carpenter, Lydia Cheshewalla, Tom Farris, Anita Fields, Yatika Starr Fields, Chris Pappan, Wendy Ponca, Ryan RedCorn, Addie Roanhorse, Richard Zane Smith, Jason Wesaw and Holly Wilson. “Their works address themes of beauty, identity and belonging, the land and environmental issues, colonialism, resistance and subversion, appropriation, relationality, futurity, and more,” according to the museum. “Their collective voices speak not only to Native America, but America today.”
Creating the Earth, 2026, by Anita Fields (Osage) can be seen on display in Kansas City. Photo: E.G. Schempf.
Voices Now is co-curated by Dr. Jami Powell, associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Indigenous art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and Bruce Hartman, founding executive director and chief curator (retired) of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition continues through February 21, 2027, in Kansas City. —
Through February 21, 2027
Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art
Museum of Kansas City 3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64123 (816) 702-7700, www.museumofkansascity.org
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