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Apr. 20–26, 2003

Exhibitions

Ancient Mexican Art from the Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian
July 21, 2002–Summer 2003
George Gustav Heye Center
New York, NY

This exhibition features forty-four pieces from the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian to illustrate the cultural and historical continuity of Mexican art. The objects—most of which have never before been publicly displayed—include ceramic and stone sculpture, bowls, vessels, pendants, masks, and funerary urns. Most date to before the intrusions of non-Native people into Mexico in the 1500s. Several date as far back as 400 B.C.

Ancient Mexican Art provides a window on the world of ancient Mexico, and its objects reveal ancient Native beliefs and traditions. Pendants, bowls, and vessels incorporate images of snakes, scorpions, and especially jaguars, revered as sacred by many indigenous peopoles. Several funerary urns reflect homage to deities, as do wooden and stone-carved objects used during the Mesoamerican ball game.


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The Edge of Enchantment
December 15, 2002–Summer 2003
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

This exhibition presents people from Native communities of the Huatulco-Huamelula region of Oaxaca, Mexico, speaking passionately about their lives, families, histories, beliefs, and dreams.


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Continuum: Twelve Artists
April 2003–November 2004
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

This 18-month exhibition series will feature a changing selection of works from twelve contemporary Native American artists who represent the succeeding generation of art begun by George Morrison 1919-2000, Grand Portage Band of the Lake Superior Ojibwe) and Allan Houser (1914-94, Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache), two major figures of 20th-century Native American art. All twelve knew Morrison or Houser personally or indirectly and were influenced by their example as successful creators or through their careers as educators. Like Morrison and Houser, the artists draw from a variety of influences, both within and outside art schools and universities, and they have established reputations as groundbreakers in new directions of contemporary art and Native American art history. In April, the exhibition series will open with the work of Kay Walking Stick (Cherokee) and Rick Bartow (Yurok-Mad River Band). Other artists in the series will include Joe Feddersen, Harry Fonseca, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, George Longfish, Judith Lowry, Nora Naranjo Morse, Shelley Niro, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Marie Watt, and Richard Ray Whitman. The artists in the exhibition represent the Arapaho, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Colville, Cree, Flathead, Hamowi-Pit River, Hawaiian, Mohawk, Mountain Maidu, Nisenan Maidu, Pueblo Santa Clara, Seneca, Shoshone, Tuscarora, Yuchi, and Yurok cultures.


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Public Programs

Storybook Readings: From the Shelves of the Resource Center
Second Saturday of every month
Resource Center, Second Floor
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

Join us for storybook readings featuring stories about the Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere. For children of all ages.


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Curator Lecture: Twelve Native Artists
April 24, 2003
5 p.m.
Collector's Office
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

Kay Walking Stick (Cherokee) and Rick Bartow (Yurok-Mad River Band) are the first to be featured in Twelve Native Artists.


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Film/Video/Radio

DAILY SCREENINGS: Native Home
February 10–April 27, 2003
Programs start at 1 pm. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30 pm.
Video Viewing Room, Second Floor
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

March 31–April 27, 2003
Part of the 2003 NMAI national touring festival Video México Indígena/Video Native Mexico.
No screening at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3.
Works are in Native Mexican languages and Spanish with English subtitles.
  • Historias Verdaduras/True Stories 2002, 10 min. MEXICO. Ojo de Agua Comunicación. An overview of the dynamic indigenous video producers and organizations in the states of Oaxaca and Michoacán in Mexico.

  • Viko Ndute/Water Festival (1995, 22 min.) MEXICO. Emigdio Julián Caballero (Mixtec). An examination of rain-making ritual and its significance for a Mixtec community in Oaxaca.

  • Guia Too/Powerful Mountain (1998, 53 min.) MEXICO. Crisanto Manzano Avella (Zapotec). In this portrait of the cloud forest ecosystem of his native Sierra Juarez region of Oaxaca, the videomaker shows the arduous way of life of those who live there and work the soil. The energy and vitality of the mountain environment resembles a living entity existing in an ongoing relationship with its human inhabitants.


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    DAILY SCREENINGS: Especially for Kids
    March 31–August 10, 2003
    Programs start at 11 am and 12 noon unless otherwise noted.
    Video Viewing Room @ State St. Corridor
    George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004

    Monday, March 31–Sunday, April 27, 2003
  • Popol Vuh (1989, 57 min.) US. Patricia Amlin The great Maya creation epic is told through animation adapted from ancient Maya pottery and books.

  • The Iroquois (1993, 30 min.) US. Henry Nevison for the Indians of North America series. Interviews with contemporary Iroquois are featured in this brief history of the Six Nations since the arrival of Europeans.

  • Onenhakenra: White Seed (1984, 20 min.) US. Frank Semmens for the Akwesasne Museum. Mohawks from the Akwesasne Reservation in New York tell the story of the origins of corn and demonstrate its continuing importance to the Iroquois people today.


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