Montclair Art Museum Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge/Native Art

Opening Friday, September 13, 2024:
“Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge / Native Art”

This major collaborative exhibition at Montclair Art Museum reimagines the presentation of the Museum’s renowned collection of Native North American art. With Native perspectives at the forefront, the exhibition explores the transformative power of Indigenous knowledge to address pressing social issues. Themes include relationships to the earth and its beings, gender and family, sovereignty and justice, and the power of art itself.

The long-term installation revisits two newly restored historical galleries through a collaborative process with many Indigenous colleagues. The exhibition features 50 historical, modern, and contemporary works by artists from more than 40 Native nations, including numerous new commissions and acquisitions, site-specific interventions, and large-scale pieces.

Through this important re-envisioning and restorative work, we also examine the Museum’s history, collection, and other legacies of European colonization in the Americas to help forge new ways of thinking and relating in a changing world.