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Artist Jeffrey Gibson represents the USA at the Venice Biennale

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The Nerman Museum owns two works by Jeffrey Gibson, the 2024 artist selected to represent the United States during the Venice Biennale. American Girl is currently on view in the George and Floriene Lieberman Gallery.

Jeffrey Gibson, American Girl, 2013, Found punching bag, wool blanket, glass beads, steel studs, artificial sinew, tin jingles and chain
Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Gift of the H Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Foundation

Read more about it: Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow

You can also learn more about the other piece in our collection, Shield, in this YouTube video:

 

Jeffrey Gibson, Shield, number 1, 2012, Found wood ironing board, deer hide, nails, acrylic paint, Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Acquired with funds provided by the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Art Acquisition Endowment of the JCCC Foundation

Tom Jones, Ho-Chunk Artist

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There’s just a little more than a month left to see These Colors Will Not Run, an exhibition that highlights works by Indigenous artists, including Tom Jones (not the musical artist!)

There are many articles about Tom Jones’s work – first, his website: Photography | Tom Jones Ho-chunk. There is also another article in Hyperallergic: Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility.

Thinking about Veterans Day tomorrow, Nov. 11, 2023, it seems appropriate to focus on Jones’s work in the exhibition which was the source of inspiration for exhibition’s title, and which highlights Native peoples’ involvement in the U.S. Military: Watch this video about Tom Jones’ work

Dyani White Hawk awarded MacArthur Fellowship

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Dyani White Hawk recently spoke at the Nerman Museum as a visiting artist in September. We were so thrilled to have her speak with JCCC, Haskell and KU students at this program, which happened right before she was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship!

Watch her full talk at the Nerman Museum here:

See a short video about the artist from the MacArthur Foundation: