November 16, 2024–February 9, 2025
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape
- The Museum will be closed December 24 & 25 for the holiday.
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Brandon Lazore (Onondaga, Snipe Clan), Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee).
Native Prospects is curated by Scott Manning Stevens, PhD / Karoniaktatsie (Akwesasne Mohawk), Associate Professor of Native American Studies and English at Syracuse University, where he is also Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program and Founding Director of the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with original essays by the curator and Gabrielle Tayac, PhD, (Piscataway) and Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan (Bad River Ojibwe). Additionally, the publication will feature writing and plates by featured artists Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Brandon Lazore (Onondaga, Snipe Clan), and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee), as well as texts on Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River), by Clémence White, and Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), by Patricia Marroquin Norby, PhD, (Purépecha), Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This exhibition was on view at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (May 4–October 27, 2024), and, after its display at the FloGris Museum, travels to the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME (March 7–July 6, 2025).
The exhibition, its tour and the accompanying publication are organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The publication is produced in partnership with the Florence Griswold Museum.
Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Major support is provided by David Bury & The Bay and Paul Foundations and the Warner Foundation.
The exhibition and publication are also supported by The Cranshaw Corporation, National Endowment for the Arts, Wyeth Foundation for American Art and Becky Gochman.
At the Florence Griswold Museum, this exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Public Art for Racial Justice Education, CT Humanities, the David T. Langrock Foundation, and Chelsea Groton Bank, as well as donors to the Exhibition Fund and the Annual Fund.
If you are a member of one of Connecticut’s five recognized Tribes, please identify yourself at our Front Desk to receive complimentary admission during these exhibitions.
