Description

Accession is a new series of prints based on Wendy Red Star’s research as the Native Artist-in-Residence at the Denver Art Museum. Each print features an image found in the hand painted card catalogues from the Works Progress Administration era that detailed the museum’s holdings of Native objects. Using the objects depicted on the cards as points of reference, she took snapshots of similar Crow material worn during the Crow Nation’s annual Crow Fair, contextualizing the objects depicted while honoring the museum illustrations as works of art in their own right.