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How Native American Artists are Combatting Misrepresention with ‘Indigenous Joy’

Martine Gutierrez, Queer Rage
Martine Gutierrez, Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I’m Tyra (2018, printed 2020). Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Artist-curator Jordan Poorman Cocker co-curated “American Sunrise: Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges” with Ashley Holland, director of curatorial affairs at the Art Bridges Foundation.

The latest acquisitions came from direct talks with the artists as well as from Native American markets and through art galleries, said Cocker, who also serves as the museum’s officer for compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGRPA).

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