#WendyRedStar

[harvardfineartslib]

Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke artist born in Billings, Montana, and based in Portland, Oregon. Red Star mines archival materials from photographs, maps, legal documents, recordings, artworks, to sacred objects that speak to the multivalence of Apsáalooke experience. Using a wide range of mediums and strategies from photography to installation, Red Star challenges existing histories of Native Americans, particularly related to her Crow heritage and from a distinctly feminist Indigenous perspective. (Summarized from Forward.)

Wendy Red Star : delegation is one of our newest acquisitions. We’re honoring Native American Heritage Month this month!

Image 1: “Fall” from Four Seasons, 2006

Image 2, 3 & 4: Detail from “Um-basax-bilua (W here They Make The Noise)”, 2017

Image 5: Book cover including the image from “Her Dreams Are True (Julia Bad Boy)”, 2021

Wendy Red Star : delegation Featuring contributions by Jordan Amirkhani, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Josh T. Franco, Annika K. Johnson, Layli Long Soldier, Tiffany Midge. New York, NY : Aperture ; Dallas, TX : Documentary Arts, 2022. 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm English 2022 HOLLIS number: 99156378795603941

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #WendyRedStar #NativeAmericanartist #womenartist #photographer #Apsáalooke #Crowtribe #Contemporaryartist #photography #self-portrait #NativeAmericanhistory #HarvardFineArtsLibrary #Fineartslibrary #Harvard #HarvardLibrary #harvardfineartslibrary #fineartslibrary #harvard #harvard library #harvardfineartslib #harvardlibrary

[publicartfund]

"Parfleche designs go beyond the idea of abstract painting which is a Western lens for looking at them. To me they represent a community of people immediately recognized as the Apsáalooke Nation.” - @wendyredstar Coming soon to @jcdecauxna 🚍bus shelters across New York City, Chicago, and Boston, #WendyRedStar: Travels Pretty. For her first public art exhibition, @wendyredstar continues her practice of mining museum archives and collections that house Apsáalooke (Crow) objects. This series of works explores parfleches, the “suitcases” of the nomadic tribes of the North American Great Plains. Taking the parfleches outside of the museum and reinterpreting them as 12 vibrant paintings, "Travels Pretty" makes these objects visible and accessible, sharing Indigenous cultural perspectives with all. "Standing as a metaphor for mobility and travel, the works draw associations between these suitcases used to transport goods and buses that transport people." - Associate Curator Katerina Stathopoulou @kstath Image: Wendy Red Star, “Makes The Lodge Good,” 2022 Acrylic, digital print Courtesy the artist Commissioned by Public Art Fund for Wendy Red Star: Travels Pretty, an exhibition on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Boston, and Chicago, on view from August 10—November 20, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWs3p2Ocgy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wendyredstar

[f0restpunk]

"In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy." @contemporaryatx . . . . . #inadreamyousawawaytosurviveandyouwerefullofjoy #thecontemporary #thecontemporaryaustin #austin #austintx #austinpsychogeography #publicart #feminism #feministart #daniellebraithwaiteshirley #adrianacorral #elliega #julianahuxtable #talamadani #daniellemckinney #wendyredstar #clarerojas #artmuseum #museumlife #artgallery #artlover #artislife #austinart #jsimpson #theinvisiblemuseum #thepalaceofgreenporcelain #photography #photooftheday #photogram (at The Contemporary Austin-Jones Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmz8DHtrKan/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#inadreamyousawawaytosurviveandyouwerefullofjoy #thecontemporary #thecontemporaryaustin #austin #austintx #austinpsychogeography #publicart #feminism #feministart #daniellebraithwaiteshirley #adrianacorral #elliega #julianahuxtable #talamadani #daniellemckinney #wendyredstar #clarerojas #artmuseum #museumlife #artgallery #artlover #artislife #austinart #jsimpson #theinvisiblemuseum #thepalaceofgreenporcelain #photography #photooftheday #photogram

[bm-feminist-art]

Peelatchixaaliash / Old Crow (Raven), Wendy Red Star, 2014, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Size: each panel: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm) Medium: Inkjet print

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224495

#wendyredstar #brooklynmuseum #feministart #museumarchive

[harvard-art-museums-photography]

Apsáalooke Feminist #3, Wendy Red Star, 2016, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D. © Wendy Red Star Size: image: 86.4 × 104.1 cm (34 × 41 in.) sheet: 91.4 × 109.2 cm (36 × 43 in.) Medium: Archival pigment print

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/362022

#museumarchive #wendyredstar

[mia-africa-americas]

Indian Summer, from "The Four Seasons" series, Wendy Red Star, 2012, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Art of Africa and the Americas

Native American woman in traditional dress kneels on floor surrounded by artificial and natural props: buffalo skull at right, buck at left, cattails, flowers; lake with reflection of snow-capped mountains and pine trees Through her work, Wendy Red Star explores issues of authenticity and representation. In these pseudo-dioramas, using kitschy wallpaper, plastic animals and artificial plants, the artist poses wearing her traditional Apsaalooka (Crow) regalia, the same type of garments her ancestors wore. These photographs blur the line between stereotype and reality, from Native American as scenery to fabricated Hollywood sets, and from authenticity to Western fantasy. Size: 23 x 26 in. (58.42 x 66.04 cm) (sheet) 21 x 22 in. (53.34 x 55.88 cm) (image) Medium: Archival pigment print on Museo silver rag

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/115818/

#wendyredstar #minneapolisinstituteofart #artsmia

[sgcruz21-blog]

#sanantoniomuseumofart #workshops #wendyredstar #marihernandez #culinaryevents #art #photography #communityevents #sanantonio

[artbookdap]

Join photographers Terry Evans and Wendy Red Star, and author Jenny Reardon for a conversation about the ethics of photography and its role in mediating our understandings of land and lives. This event will focus on the Plains, with an emphasis on the unseen, the unrecognized, and what falls outside the frame. What relations is the photograph a trace of, and what relations does it fail to comprehend? How can photography respond to the ethics of the negative—what was cut, or never conceived—and thus learn to see more complexly? Register for this free event at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ This live talk is the third in a series celebrating the release of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAND USE FROM 1840 TO THE PRESENT from @radius.books ⁠ @sfmoma @wendyredstar @terryevansphotography⁠ @artbook #JennyReardon #radiusbooks #sfmoma #americangeography #wendyredstar #terryevans https://www.instagram.com/p/CPDhlNPphUG/?utm_medium=tumblr

#jennyreardon #radiusbooks #sfmoma #americangeography #wendyredstar #terryevans

[kalup-linzy]

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! @tulsaartistfellowship @yatikafields @nativefields @philbrookmuseum @wendyredstar @sterlinharjo @joyharjoforreal 1. Me with Yatika Starr Fields. Rock the Vote 10/9/20 2. Rock the Vote 10/9/20 3. Rock the Vote 10/9/20 4. Anita Fields. Osage Wedding Coat. 2018. Philbrook Museum. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists on view thru January 3, 2021 5. Wendy Red Star. Walks in the Dark. 2011. Mixed Media. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists on view thru January 3, 2021 6. Dorothy Grant with Robert Davidson. Hummingbird Dress. 1995. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists on view thru January 3, 2021 7. Me with Sterlin Harjo. 9/9/20. Set of his TV pilot Reservation Dogs for FX. 8. Joy Harjo. 2019. Recording session for Paula Sungstrong Legend Recordings. #kaluplinzy #happyidigenouspeoplesday #yatikastarrfields #yatikafields #rockthevote #anitafields #wendyredstar #dorothygrant #philbrookmuseum #sterlinharjo #joyharjo #2020tulsaartistfellowship #2020tulsaartistfellow (at Tulsa Artist Fellowship) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGP3Uoal2E0/?igshid=o0jefkcn8ff6

#kaluplinzy #happyidigenouspeoplesday #yatikastarrfields #yatikafields #rockthevote #anitafields #wendyredstar #dorothygrant #philbrookmuseum #sterlinharjo #joyharjo #2020tulsaartistfellowship #2020tulsaartistfellow

[duvalart]

Wendy Red Star. Apsaalooke Feminist. I love these works. Meaningful, beautiful, witty and intelligent. Does it get better than that? Now at MassMoca. Message me for more info.#wendyredstar #massmoca #apsaalooke #feminist #feministart https://www.instagram.com/p/CDy1MzRjs7l/?igshid=lp1e249e0ds

#wendyredstar #massmoca #apsaalooke #feminist #feministart

[harvardfineartslib]

Wendy Red Star is a contemporary photographer and a multimedia artist who is a member of the Apsaálooke (Crow) tribe, raised in the Apsaálooke Reservation in Montana. Her work speaks to the complex interconnectedness of the present with colonial history in this country. From 2000 to 2004, Red Star studied art and Native American Studies as an undergraduate at Montana State University. She learned that the Crow Tribe’s traditional lands once stretched across most of present-day Wyoming and Montana (ca. 38.5 million acres), but it was reduced to less than 2.3 million acres between 1851 and 1905.

Red Star’s practice involves extensive archival research on the history and lands of the Crow Reservation. In her “1873 Crow Peace Delegation” project, she employs portrait photographs of the delegation members, using red pen to fill in the negative space with the individuals’ back stories and embellish certain details. For example, she highlights the peacock feather duster that Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) holds in this photograph, calling our attention to it. The rumor is that while visiting Washington D.C., the Crow Delegation attended a performance by a burlesque dancer, who gave each one a feather duster. Upon returning to the reservation, sub-chiefs and young Crow men wanted one of their own, thus creating a new fashion trend.

Red Star’s critical observations and extensive research on each historical image call for close looking and careful reading on the history of colonialism. The anecdotal story about feather dusters may be humorous, but it is also “a material reminder of the blatant disregard that government officials showed the Crow Delegation, and how far they would go to distract the delegation members from their crucial agenda of preserving Crow territories.” (p.50)

“It is critical to preserve and pass along culture, heritage, and shared values while also providing future generations with a sense of identity, solidarity, and empowerment.” – Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star’s work is currently on view at MassMoCA through May 2022.

Image 1: Front cover: Showing detail from “Apsaálooke Feminist #4,” 2016, Archival pigment print on photo paper, 35” x 42”

Image description: A woman and a child in Native American clothes posing for the camera

Image 2: Detail from “Portrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) with His Wife, Ish-Ip-Chi-Wak-Pa-I-Chis (Good or Pretty Medicine Pipe),” 2017

Image description: Close-up of a young Native American woman gazing at the camera with texts written in red pen with arrows pointing to different parts of her. One arrow points to her head and the text reads 14 years old in 1873.

Image 3: Left page: “Portrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) with His Wife, Ish-Ip-Chi-Wak-Pa-I-Chis (Good or Pretty Medicine Pipe),” 2017, Archival pigment print on photo paper, 25”x 17”

Right page: “Portrait of Crow Man, Se-Ta-Pit-Se (Packs the Bear or Bear Wolf) and His Wife, “Stays with the Horses,” 2017.

Image description: Page spreads showing two portrait photographs with texts written in red. Each portrait shows a man and woman in Native American clothes with a man holding a red feather duster.

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #nativeamericanheritage #wendyredstar #nativeamericanartist #womenartist #colonial history #apsaálooke #colonialism #photography #Oldcrow #crowtribe #fineartslibrary #harvardfineartslibrary #Harvard #harvard library #harvardlibrary #massmoca

[publicartfund]

To celebrate the thousands of women who painstakingly created the parfleches but are not credited with the craftsmanship, artist @wendyredstar titled each of the 12 paintings in "Travels Pretty" after women from the Apsáalooke tribe, whose names she found in the 1885 Crow Census. Learn more about the parfleches, the exhibition, and find an artwork on a @jcdecauxna bus shelter near you at publicartfund.org/WendyRedStar #WendyRedStar, Brings Things Herself, 2022 Courtesy the artist Photo: Mel Taing @m.ltaing, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY Artwork a part of Wendy Red Star: Travels Pretty, presented in Boston by Public Art Fund on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York City, Boston, and Chicago, on view from August 10—November 20, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cic5Q4judAX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wendyredstar

[dominicanslovehaitians]

“Employing an unapologetic social perspective, Red Star’s work is often hilarious — and autobiographical. The Last Thanks, a 40-by-50-inch photographic print shot with a medium-format camera, depicts a glum-faced Red Star flanked by Native American skeletons at a Thanksgiving meal of Oatmeal Creme Pies, bologna, canned green beans, Kraft Singles, Wonder Bread, and Natural American Spirit cigarettes. “The food on the table was everything I ate when I went to my grandmother’s house as a child,” she explains.” - excerpt from Chuck Thompson’s piece on Crow artist Wendy Red Star for Cowboys & Indians Magazine titled “Wendy Red Star and the Indigenous Voice.” 🌾 Approximately 1 in 4 Native peoples in the United States grapple with food insecurity, which is a lack of access to enough affordable and nutritious foods. Indigenous families are 400% more likely than other U.S. households to report not having enough to eat. #thanksgiving #decolonizeyourmind #wendyredstar #indigenousvoices #Repost @diasporaradicalx with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/B5bi3bTlq2P/?igshid=1pisiaahmdzb1

#thanksgiving #decolonizeyourmind #wendyredstar #indigenousvoices #repost

[virgilortiz]

Catch the exhibition Hear My My Voice, now on display through Nov 26 at the #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts #RichmondVA @vmfamuseum #ceramics#art#JeremyFrey#MollyMurphyAdams#WendyRedStar#BunkyEchohawk#PrestonSingletary#NativeAmerican#MadeInNativeAmerica® (at VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

#richmondva #bunkyechohawk #wendyredstar #ceramics #jeremyfrey #virginiamuseumoffinearts #art #mollymurphyadams #prestonsingletary #madeinnativeamerica #nativeamerican

[bm-feminist-art]

Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), Wendy Red Star, 2014, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Size: each panel: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm) Medium: Inkjet print

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224715

#brooklynmuseum #wendyredstar #feministart #museumarchive

[harvard-art-museums-photography]

Winter, Wendy Red Star, 2006, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D. © Wendy Red Star Size: sheet: 58.4 × 66 cm (23 × 26 in.) image: 53.3 × 61 cm (21 × 24 in.) Medium: Archival pigment print

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/362024

#museumarchive #wendyredstar