9/11/2023 0 Comments Wendy toy zebra drawing![]() ![]() ![]() “In a twisted way, I knew that I could go to the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles and find Crow material,” Red Star explained during an artist talk hosted by UCLA’s Hammer Museum. While pursuing her master’s degree in art and Native American studies at the University of California in Los Angeles, Red Star started feeling homesick and in need of a Crow connection. “I wanted everyone to know that this is Crow territory,” she told Rivera Fellah. In response, she created a 2004 installation of tipis staged in strategic locations across campus - busy walkways, common areas and the 50-yard line of the football field. “Learning that history felt revolutionary to me, and it inspired my desire to learn about the history of the Crow Nation and reeducate myself with knowledge which I could then share visually with a broad audience.”Īs an undergrad, Red Star learned that the very campus on which she was studying - Montana State University in Bozeman - was Crow territory that had been ceded along with more than 30 million other acres as part of land grabs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “In my public school education, Crow history was not taught,” Red Star told Nadiah Rivera Fellah, co-curator of “A Scratch on the Earth,” a mid-career survey that premiered at New Jersey’s Newark Museum of Art in 2019. Although born and raised on the Crow (Apsáalooke) Reservation in Montana, Portland-based photographer and multimedia artist Wendy Red Star didn’t begin learning about Native American history until she was in college. Winter-Four Seasons (detail), 2006, is among the works in Wendy Red Star’s exhibition now on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art. ![]()
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