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The exhibit is an 18-month, largely two-dimensional installation, compelling audiences to see that ethnographic value is not at odds with aesthetic quality. The exhibition features four prominent Arizona artists in a series of one-person, four-month exhibits, starting with Jesse T. Hummingbird (Cherokee) and followed by Judith Durr (Choctaw), Baje Whitethorne, Sr. (Navajo) and Michael Kabotie (Hopi). Individually and collectively, these artists challenge and expand the meaning of the term “Indian art.”

New York Times journalist Ken Shulman coined the term “buckskin ceiling,” defining it as an “invisible barrier,” an “art world bias that makes space for traditional beadwork, buckskins and trading-post blankets, and ignores almost anything else.”  This exhibit provides a new venue to increase knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of contemporary Native American art.

Admission, which includes visits to all Museum buildings and galleries, is $5 for adults; children under 18 and Museum members are free.