MFA Descriptive Tour on Zoom

This month, we will explore works made by contemporary Native American artists from the MFA exhibition, Ancestors and Place. Through the popular medium of printmaking, these artists explore, claim and celebrate the places and peoples that surround them. We will consider the work of James Lavadour, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Wendy Red Star among others. Place extends beyond a single location to encompass land, water, and sky. Ancestors are those not only human, but nonhuman too, that are living elements of a place. Some Native artists have used the collaborative medium of printmaking as a way of honoring these deeply connected concepts and reminding us that, though many Indigenous ancestral lands were lost to colonization, relationships to these places and the communities they nurtured endure.

Ancestors and Place: Indigenous North American Prints