Listening with the Heart Related Events:

Exhibition Preview
Listening with the Heart and Contemporary Native Art in Minnesota
Saturday, September 9, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Tickets $10/$5 for WAM members, students, and seniors
For tickets call the Membership Office at 612-625-4460

The evening includes exhibition viewing, an hors d'oeuvre buffet catered by Tejas, a program about artists Frank Big Bear, George Morrison, and Norval Morrisseau, and a performance by Heart of the Earth Drum and Dance Club.

Gallery Talk
Breaking New Ground: The Contemporary and the Traditional in the Work of Frank Big Bear, George Morrison, and Norval Morrisseau
Gallery Talk with Ron Libertus
Thursday, September 14, 12:15 p.m.
Meet at the information desk

American Indian art specialist Ron Libertus discusses the works of each artist in Listening with the Heart. Libertus taught American Indian art history in the University of Minnesota department of American Indian studies for more than 15 years. He has known the exhibition artists professionally and personally, and has curated exhibitions of their work.

Lecture
Maurer on Morrison
Evan Maurer
Thursday, October 19, 7:00 p.m.

In a rare public lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts director Evan Maurer reflects on the distinguished life and work of artist George Morrison, exploring how Morrison's return to Minnesota in the 1970s and his return to Native American traditions influenced his art. Maurer is also curator of the MIA's department of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, and has published several articles, catalogues, and books on Native American art and artists. In 1992, he received the Wittenborn Memorial Book Award acknowledging his book, Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life, as one of the five best art history publications of that year.

Lecture
What Frank Big Bear Taught Me: An Indian's Struggle with the 20th Century in America Jacki Thompson Rand
Saturday, October 28, 2:00 p.m.

In this slide lecture, Jacki Thompson Rand discusses how the work of Frank Big Bear prompted her own reconciliation with the experiences of American Indian people in the late 20th century. By confronting the clash between modern American Indian life and the distorted and false histories of what it means to be an Indian, Big Bear documents a continuing struggle against the legacy of colonialism in the United States. Rand is an assistant professor in history and American Indian and Native studies at the University of Iowa. Rand, who is Choctaw, has worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.