Kay WalkingStick | Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum | Ackland Museum of Art

Hales is delighted to announce Kay WalkingStick's inclsuion in Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum at the Ackland Museum of Art, on view through 28 April 2024. 

 

Oklahoma's Gilcrease Museum houses one of the best and most comprehensive collections of Native American art in the country, largely built by a collector who was himself a member of the Muscogee Nation. This unprecedented traveling exhibition emphasizes Indigenous art from the heartland from the late nineteenth century to the present day, supplemented by ancient stone carvings and by a handful of contrasting Euro-American works. Arranged into four stimulating sections exploring transhistorical themes of ceremony, sovereignty, visual abstraction, and identity, Past Forward amplifies Indigenous voices and affirms the centrality of Native American art to American art history.