Kay Walkingstick's American Abstraction - Dialogue with the Cosmos
date:Sunday, October 19, 2008 time:12:00 PM to 5:00 PM venue:Montclair Art Museum address:3 South Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 View map from:Montclair Art Museum
Kay WalkingStick, a trustee of the Montclair Art Museum and the first Native
American female artist to be included in H.W. Janson’s History of Art, will
create a sight-specific mural, American Abstraction: Dialogue With the Cosmos,
to reflect her Native American heritage. This landscape mural is a captavating ink
painting of mountains with colorful parfleche bags suspended from various areas
and heights. These bags, created from rawhide, represent the decorative bags
Native America women use to transport dried meat and other imperative articles.
Museum Hours:
noon - 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
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