FY2020-2021 BREAKING GROUND, BUILDING COMMUNITY
The glass castle | In May 2021, Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass opened to wide acclaim and a stream of eager visitors. The groundbreaking exhibition features work from 29 Native American glass artists, some from as far as New Zealand and Australia. The striking collection of work “tells a larger story about Indigenous cultural knowledge and artistic genius,” says Della Warrior, the museum’s former executive director.
Left: Alano Edzerza (Tahltan Nation), Sea Monster Box. Photo courtesy Stonington Gallery, Seattle, WA.
34 virtual programs delivered 1,000 MIAC coloring books distributed 530 copies sold of Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass book
$500,000 JoAnn and Bob Balzer contemporary art gallery $250,000 Bill and Uschi Butler Friends of MIAC Exhibition Endowment Fund $1.5 million total private support
42 honoraria for Native artists 6
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