In the Education Center

With Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History Emerita, University of Rochester

In Native North American artistic traditions, what is a replica? What constitutes a copy? In contrast to the larger field of art history, there is almost no literature on forgeries and replicas in this sub-field. Berlo's talk, adapted from the introduction to her recent book, Not Native American Art, considers notions of replicas, copies, tributes, forgeries, pastiches, and even digital surrogates as they apply to archaeological, historical and contemporary Native arts of North America. 

Not Native American Art will be on sale in the Museum Shop and Berlo will be available to sign books immediately following the program.