Matrilineal Matters: Contemporary Tlingit Artists & Beading Legacies with Dr. Megan A. Smetzer
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Tuesday, November 16
7 PM
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The beading practices of Tlingit mothers and grandmothers from the 19th century onward, have been crucial to the richness and diversity of 21st century art practices in Southeast Alaska and beyond. This talk will consider some of the ways in which contemporary artists, working in a wide-range of media, have incorporated both subtle and overt references to the powerful matrilineal legacies that contributed to cultural continuity and resilience in the face of laws and institutions meant to regulate and assimilate.
This event is FREE and open to all.
This event is made possible with support from Friends of Native Art.
About the Speaker
Megan A. Smetzer is an art historian who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, also known as Vancouver, BC. She teaches, publishes, and lectures on historical and contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous cultural expressions, focusing primarily on work made by women. Currently, Smetzer teaches at Capilano University and is also the Acting Curator of Western Ethnology at the Canadian Museum of History. In July 2021, the University of Washington Press released her first book: Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience.
