Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiņ Artists and Knowledge Keepers

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September 3 — December 20, 2024

Dreaming Our Futures features  works by 29 Indigenous artists. The exhibition premiered at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (January 16 – March 16, 2024), and traveled to Rochester Art Center (April 24 – July 21, 2024) before coming to the Tweed Museum of Art.
 
The exhibition was curated by Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe), Northrop Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota, and Howard Oransky, Director of Katherine E. Nash Gallery, with Christopher Pexa (Bdewákaŋtuŋwaŋ Dakota, Spirit Lake Nation), Associate Professor of English, Harvard University.
 
A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue with critical essays by several prominent Native American scholars was distributed worldwide by University of Minnesota Press.
 
Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiņ Artists and Knowledge Keepers was organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
 
Image credits:
Rabbett Before Horses Strickland, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe Ricing, 2022. Oil on canvas, 60 × 84 in. Courtesy of the artist. © Rabbett Before Horses Strickland
 
Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.), Lakȟóta. Ikicize Nunpa (Two Fighters), 2011. Watercolor and ink on antique stock certificate, 6¾ × 10¼ in. Collection of the Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2015.002.0080
© Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.)
 
Joe Geshick, Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. The Welcoming, 2004. Oil on canvas, 72 × 84 in.  Collection of the Acreage at Osceola, WI. On loan from Kiran Stordalen Trust
 
Leah H. Yellowbird, First Nations Algonquin-Metis, Anishinaabe. Waabig Wan (Flower), 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 18 × 48 in. (45.7 × 121.9 cm) Tweed Museum of Art, UMD, Sax Brothers Purchase Fund, D2015.32 © Leah Yellowbird