The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans Exhibition Trailer

How have we shaped our land and how has it shaped us? The nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States featured in the 2023–2024 exhibition The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans wrestle with questions like this in powerful ways. Watch for a glimpse at these artists, who through a variety of practices visualize Indigenous knowledge and create diverse art from a shared worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Find artworks by curator and artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) in our collection here.
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Video: Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Takes on Pop Art
New York Times art critic Aruna D’Souza discusses Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's 1992 work Target.

Video: John Hitchcock’s "Impact vs. Influence” Fuses Family, Military, and Nature
John Hitchcock's (Comanche/Kiowa/European descent) work Impact vs. Influence uses symbols like animal heads, tanks, helicopters, birds, butterflies, and an hourglass to speak to the complexity of our shared environment and the “hopeful small moments” inside that chaos.

Video: John Hitchcock’s Mesmerizing Art Installation From Start to Finish
Watch artist John Hitchcock and our dedicated exhibition team transform an empty gallery into a wall of wonder as they install Hitchcock’s work Impact vs. Influence.