Join Marisa Cruz Branco, Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, in a conversation on works in the exhibition that explore Indigenous futurism, the Pueblo Revolt, speculative fictions, and much more.   Block Gallery Talks offer a close look at select works on view centering the interdisciplinary questions, perspectives and expertise of faculty, staff, students, and community […]

Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in the galleries for a close look at one or two works on view in Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland.  Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. In the galleries, the BMSAs engage The Block’s visitors in conversations about artworks that spark their curiosity and ideas that […]

Tour Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland with Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator Jordan Poorman Cocker.  Through the perspectives of four collaborating artists with connections to Zhegagoynak—Andrea Carlson(Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent), Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), and Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)—Woven Being explores confluences that continue to shape Indigenous creative […]