{"id":45210,"date":"2016-01-19T20:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45210"},"modified":"2016-05-01T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T18:13:38","slug":"national-museum-of-the-american-indian-presents-unprecedented-retrospective-kay-walkingstick-an-american-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45210","title":{"rendered":"National Museum of the American Indian Presents Unprecedented Retrospective \u201cKay WalkingStick: An American Artist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.si.edu\/releases\/national-museum-american-indian-presents-unprecedented-retrospective-kay-walkingstick-ameri\" target=\"_blank\">National Museum of the American Indian Presents Unprecedented Retrospective \u201cKay WalkingStick: An American Artist\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.si.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Newsdesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-29<\/p>\n<p>SI-423A-2015<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OuLB6IcRA0s?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For nearly five decades, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaywalkingstick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kay WalkingStick<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee<\/a>, b. 1935) has charted an artistic career that is not bound by singular definition. While her early work with Native themes celebrate heroic American Indian leaders with stately, abstract compositions and her more recent heroically scaled paintings recast American landscapes as Native places, WalkingStick\u2019s artistic persona originates from roots in the New York art world of the 1960s and 1970s and her immersion in considerations of abstraction, minimalism and feminist art. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/explore\/exhibitions\/item\/?id=949\" target=\"_blank\">Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist<\/a>\u201d is the first major retrospective of WalkingStick\u2019s work, including more than 75 works that trace her dynamic career from the 1970s to the present.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will be on view from Nov. 7 through Sept. 18, 2016, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Museum of the American Indian\u2019s<\/a> third-floor gallery. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afaweb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The American Federation of the Arts<\/a> will tour the exhibition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytonartinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Art Institute<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dayton,_Ohio\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton, Ohio<\/a> (Feb. 9, 2017\u2013May 7, 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclairartmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair Art Museum<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montclair,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair, N.J.<\/a> (Feb. 3, 2018\u2013June 17, 2018) and two additional venues in 2017. \u201cKay WalkingStick: An American Artist\u201d is co-curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/researchstudy\/Staffhp\/ashmilbyk.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Ash-Milby<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Navajo\" target=\"_blank\">Navajo<\/a>), associate curator, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidwpenney\" target=\"_blank\">David Penney<\/a>, associate director for museum scholarship. It features both well-known works, such as WalkingStick\u2019s \u201cChief Joseph\u201d series and hallmark <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diptych\" target=\"_blank\">diptychs<\/a>, as well as never-before-seen works, richly illustrated sketchbooks from the artist\u2019s personal collection and a gallery film featuring the artist discussing her work and process. A press preview will be held Monday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor her entire career, Kay WalkingStick has been rewriting the narrative about Native peoples through her artwork, which has defied categorization,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/about\/from-the-director\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pawnee_people\" target=\"_blank\">Pawnee<\/a>), director of the National Museum of the American Indian. \u201cThese seeming contradictions and complexity are part of being an American Indian today, and what makes her an American artist. Our nation itself is built upon diversity of culture and expression. WalkingStick\u2019s background and art reflect this same richness and diversity.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.si.edu\/releases\/national-museum-american-indian-presents-unprecedented-retrospective-kay-walkingstick-ameri\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Museum of the American Indian Presents Unprecedented Retrospective \u201cKay WalkingStick: An American Artist\u201d Newsdesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian 2015-10-29 SI-423A-2015 For nearly five decades, Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee, b. 1935) has charted an artistic career that is not bound by singular definition. While her early work with Native themes celebrate heroic American Indian leaders with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,3015,20],"tags":[22690,12960,22691],"class_list":["post-45210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-kay-walkingstick","tag-national-museum-of-the-american-indian","tag-newsdesk-newsroom-of-the-smithsonian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45215,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45210\/revisions\/45215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}