February 15 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
AMFA Members can explore AMFA’s newest exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s during an exclusive preview event before the exhibition opens to the public on February 16, 2024.
An opening ceremony presented by the American Indian Center of Arkansas begins at 6:00 p.m. featuring a Cherokee flute performance by Tommy Wildcat and a Lakota Four Directions drum song by Steven Morales. A reception will follow giving Members a chance to view the exhibition in the Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery and enjoy beverages and bites in the Cultural Living Room.
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Harvey Herman (Sioux, circa 1953 – ), Geometric #4 (detail), triptych, 1971, oil on canvas, On loan from the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, S-78, S-79, S-80.
Action/Abstraction Redefined is organized by IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Support for this exhibition is provided by Art Bridges.
Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s is organized by Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, curator of collections, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and Dr. Lara Evans, IAIA Associate Professor of Native Art History.
