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2015-11-10T18:58:03.000Z
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Video Title:
Kay WalkingStick Symposium 07 - Jolene Rickard
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The symposium Seizing the Sky: Redefining American Art commemorates the opening of the major retrospective Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist, on view at the National Museum of the American Indian through September 18, 2016. In celebrating the work of Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), the symposium and exhibition offer a fresh perspective on American art. In this segment, David Penney, co-curator of the WalkingStick retrospective, introduces and moderates the second session of the symposium. The first presenter is Jolene Rickard, Cornell University, who speaks on "Cherokee Dispossession, the Notion of 'American Art,' and the Work of Kay WalkingStick." David W. Penney is the associate director of museum scholarship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and an internationally recognized scholar of American Indian art. He holds a doctorate in art history and archaeology from Columbia University. He was formerly the vice president of exhibitions and collections strategies at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the longtime curator of that museum’s Native American art collections. The author of North American Indian Art (2004), he was also the curator and catalogue author for the exhibition Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection (2015) and co-curator for the exhibition Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes (2013) for the NMAI and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He has written many other books and essays. Jolene Rickard is a visual historian, artist, and curator interested in the issues of Indigeneity within a global context. Recent projects include the 2015 Creative Time Summit, Venice, Italy; advisor to Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, 2013; Ford Foundation Research Grant, 2008-11; Te Tihi Scholar/Artist Gathering (New Zealand) 2010; and co-curator for the inaugural exhibition for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.), 2004. She is from the Tuscarora Nation (Haudenosaunee), the Director of the American Indian Program, and an Associate Professor in the History of Art and Art Departments at Cornell University. The symposium was webcast live and recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 5, 2015.
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32 min 20 sec
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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
