About
Through a fellowship in the arts awarded by the Memphis Center I was able to curate a show in the Spring semester of 2019. The show exhibits paintings from two collections. The older works by Howe, Houser, Nailor, and Nieto all belong to the Rhodes College collection entitled the Jessie L. Clough Memorial for Teaching. The four works by JoAnne Bird are part of a personal collection courtesy of Miriam Galadriel Clinton.
I have spent the semester curating these works so as to share the narrative of Native American art throughout the twentieth century. The paintings from these men and women tell a story about breaking through artistic constraints that white Americans put on Native Americans decades ago. For more information about how these artists stood up to oppression, use the navigation bar to see Oscar Howe's page.