This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity - Softcover

National Museum Of The American Indian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555912087 ISBN 13: 9781555912086

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

Recounts the collaborative effort of fifteen leading Native American artists representing a range of cultural backgrounds and artistic media.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

To mark the opening of its George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian organized three exhibitions. One of these presents an installation inspired by a unique collaborative effort of fifteen leading contemporary Native American artists representing a range of cultural backgrounds and artistic media. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, This Path We Travel enables readers to share this creative process. The artists of This Path We Travel came from diverse native cultures to create a unified composition of native thought, belief, and expression - one that brings together their individual viewpoints and experiences into a single multifaceted vision. Participants agreed that the installation, although radically new in form, would be grounded in the traditions of native people and based upon an older native model of cooperation and sharing. Meeting in locations representative of the four cardinal directions (New York in the east; Alberta, Canada, in the north; Hawaii in the west; and Arizona in the south) the artists took part in ceremonies and created artworks on site - later reproduced for the exhibition - designed to articulate the traditions as well as the contemporary sensibilities of indigenous peoples.

About the Author:

The National Museum of the American Indian is part of the Smithsonian Institution and speaks on diverse subjects, including native artistic traditions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555912087
• ISBN 13: 9781555912086
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160