IMAGINING INDIGENOUS FUTURES

Decolonizing the Exhibition:

Imagining Indigenous Futures

AMST 284 at Vassar College

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From the AMST 284 Course Description:

The class will examine a number of Indigenous North American contemporary artists to more deeply understand the historical continuums of unsettling and resistance the artists engage. A central emphasis in our class will be the research and exhibition of contemporary Indigenous works from the Edward J. Guarino Collection at Vassar’s Palmer Gallery. Toward this goal, we will also work to understand the methods of Indigenous forms of museology before each student then researches, interprets, writes wall labels for, and designs the exhibition installation for the works from the collection. Our exhibition of thirty works will be installed in the Palmer at the end of the term and include a class-generated brochure as well as an accompanying class-generated website.