Curator’s Spotlight Tour
The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology
Saturday, February 16
12–1 pm
Adults $8; Students/Seniors $5; Free for Members
18 West 86th Street, Gallery 

Join curator Aaron Glass and artist Corrine Hunt on Saturday, February 16 at 12 pm for a lively tour of the exhibition.

Aaron Glass is an Associate Professor at Bard Graduate Center, whose areas of special interest include Museums and Anthropology, Colonialism and Indigenous Modernities, and Intercultural Encounter, Exchange, and Agency.

Corrine Hunt, also known as Nugwam Gelatleg’lees, is an Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw/Tlingit artist, carver, jeweler, and designer based in British Columbia, Canada.

Conversation
Creative Practice in Indigenous Communities
Wednesday, February 20
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for Members
18 West 86th Street, Gallery 

Creative Practice in Indigenous Communities is a conversation with artists Patrick Dean Hubbell, Corrine Hunt, and Skeena Reece. Moderated by one of our spring artists in residence Maria Hupfield.

Patrick Dean Hubbell is Dine’ (Navajo). He is originally from Navajo, New Mexico, located near the Northeast region of the Arizona/New Mexico border of the Navajo Nation. Working primarily in acrylic and often in oils, the artist explores questions of identity and themes rooted in the correlation and the conflict of his Native American and Contemporary mindset.

Corrine Hunt, also known as Nugwam Gelatleg’lees, is an Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw/Tlingit artist, carver, jeweler, and designer based in British Columbia, Canada. Corrine’s works include engraved gold and silver jewelry and accessories, custom furnishings in carved stainless steel and reclaimed wood, and modern totem poles and other sculptural installations.

Skeena Reece is a Tsimshian/Gitksan and Cree artist based on the West Coast of British Columbia. She has won acclaim in recent years as one of the talents in “Beat Nation,” a touring exhibition on hip-hop and Aboriginal communities. Her multidisciplinary practice includes performance art, spoken word, humor, “sacred clowning,” writing, music, video, and visual art.

Based in Brooklyn, Maria Hupfield (b.1975) is a citizen of the Anishinaabek Nation from Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, Canada. Her work has shown in New York at the Museum of Arts and Design, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Brooklyn Museum. Together with artist Jason Lujan, she co-owns Native Art Department International in New York.

Film Screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Friday, March 8
6:30 pm
Adults $15; Seniors/Students $10; $8 for Members
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

In the Land of the Head Hunters (dir. Edward S. Curtis, 1914, USA, 65 minutes) was the first feature film made in British Columbia and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It is also the first feature made with an entirely indigenous North American cast. A portrait of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw people of northern Vancouver Island and the central coast, it was directed by Edward S. Curtis, the renowned American photographer of First Nations life. The film mixes documentary and dramatic elements, recording authentic traditions and rituals, including the potlatch ceremony.

This screening will be live scored by musician and composer Laura Ortman.

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a Brooklyn based composer, musician, and artist. She produces solo albums, live performances, and film/art soundtracks, and she frequently collaborates with artists in film, music, art, dance, multimedia, activism, and poetry, such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Caroline Monnet, Michelle Latimer, and Martha Colburn.

Conversation
Indigenous Experience at World’s Fairs
Wednesday, April 10
6:30–8 pm
Adults $8; Seniors/Students $5; Free for Members
18 West 86th Street, Gallery

Indigenous Experience at World’s Fairs is a conversation with Lee D. Baker, Laura Graham, and Aaron Glass.

Lee D. Baker is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. His books include From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race , 1896-1954 (1998), Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience (2003), and Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture(2010).

Aaron Glass is an Associate Professor at Bard Graduate Center. His areas of special interest include Museums and Anthropology, Colonialism and Indigenous Modernities, and Intercultural Encounter, Exchange, and Agency.

Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her current research focuses on politics of indigenous representation to broad publics among indigenous peoples of lowland South America, specifically Xavante of central Brazil and Wayuu of Venezuela and Colombia.

Gallery Artists-in-Residence

Native Art Department International

Native Art Department International is a collaborative long-term project created and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan, who will be in residence on the 4th floor of the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from March 1 through July 7. They will turn their studio space into a television set on which they will dramatize the life sequences of anthropologist Franz Boas, one of the subjects of The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology . The media aesthetic of their project will be loosely based on Potato Wolf TV, an early 1970s initiative of the Lower East Side activist artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab), whose programs included fictional news segments and satirical takes on mainstream media.