In The Farrell Auditorium

With Annika Johnson, the Stacy and Bruce Simon Curator of Native American Art at the Joslyn Art Museum

Rooted in deep connections between design, community, and place, nineteenth-century beadwork from the prairie region is marked by the fluid movement of visual forms across communities. These shifting aesthetics challenge institutional expectations of fixed styles or singular authorship and invite new ways of learning from the past. This lecture draws on active, collaborative research with beadworkers and museum collections to consider the relationships behind artworks and what these expressions of care and skill continue to teach.