Delaware Art Museum features Indigenous culture in exhibit
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The Delaware Art Museum will be featuring the works of Indigenous photographers to highlight the Indigenous culture in the United States.
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Will Wilson, K’ómoks Imperial Stormtrooper (Andy Everson), Citizen of the K’ómoks First Nation, CIPX, Seattle Art Museum, 2017
The Delaware Art Museum in Washington will celebrate indigenous culture during a summer exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.
Some of Navajo photographer Will Wilson's work, conceived during his visit to Delaware First State, is not on display at the Delaware Art Museum.
"So this is the work of photographer Will Wilson; he is a Native American photographer - he's Dine or Navajo - working out of the Santa Fe (New Mexico) area and he is producing a series of portraits of Native Americans all across the US," said Heather Campbell Coyle, the chief curator at the Museum.
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Will Wilson, Nakotah LaRance, Citizen of the Hopi Nation, 6-Time World Champion Hoop Dancer, Member, Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations, CIPX, Santa Fe Art Institute, 2012
Wilson visited the First State in May to photograph members of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware and the Nanticoke Indian Association, Coyle added.
According to the curator, 38 of those photos can be seen at the Delaware Art Museum before they are taken to the Nanticoke Indian Museum in Sussex County.
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Will Wilson, Nakotah LaRance, Citizen of the Hopi Nation, 6-Time World Champion Hoop Dancer, Member, Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations, CIPX, Santa Fe Art Institute, 2012
The exhibit will be held jointly with a pow-wow of arts and culture scheduled for late July, the museum's community engagement specialist, Iz Balleto, said.
"With the guidance of the Nanticoke and Lenape Tribes doing this together, it took about two years to put this (one) event together - bringing together different tribes and different dancers," Balleto said.
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Will Wilson, Enoch Kelly Haney, citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Artist, former State Senator, and Principal Chief of Seminole Nation. Talking Tintype, CIPX PhotoSynthesis, 2016
"We're going to have over 50 dancers here participating in the Pow Wow; we're going to have the Red Blanket Singers of the Lenape Tribe coming down from New Jersey - Bridgerton. And we're going to have a day of culture, even among the Aztec culture, the Parroquia.”
Delaware is also hosting a program offering community members' stories, entitled "My Land, My Roots."
