This one-day program focuses on contemporary Native North American art: aesthetics, ideas, contexts and contrasts, featuring artists, curators, and critical thinkers. Organized in conjunction with two significant and simultaneous exhibitions of contemporary Native art at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, We Are Here: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship and the Museum of Arts and Design's Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3, the final chapter of the groundbreaking series that has regionally explored the most cutting edge contemporary Native art. 

11:00—12:00  CONNECTIONS: Curators and Artists, a Conversation
Diker Pavilion, Ground Floor
National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green

3:30—6:00      CONNECTIONS:  Contemporary Native Art in Context, a Panel
SEATING LIMITED
Theatre, Lower Level
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle

Presented in partnership with the National Museum of the American Indian