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From the political performance artist James Luna to the self-taught ceramist Pahponee, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation features a diverse array of contemporary Native American artists whose work at once acknowledges and pushes the long tradition of Native American visual art. This exhibition, the second in the Changing Hands series organized by the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, features approximately 150 works of art by more than 130 artists from areas west of the Mississippi including the Plains, Plateau, West Coast, Western Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii.
The curators of Changing Hands offer an alternative to the anthropological approach of many Native American art exhibitions that focus on tribal affiliation and emblematic styles. Changing Hands is instead organized in four conceptual categories: The Human Condition, Material Evidence, Beyond Function, and Nature as Subject. These interpretive frameworks address the ideas, materials, and practices at play in the arena of contemporary Native art, and elucidate how these works fit not only in the context of Native culture, but also in the contemporary art world.
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Program and the Dobkin Family Foundation. Support for the catalogue has been provided by a major grant from Oldcastle Glass. Additional support has been provided by the Achelis Foundation, Alice and David Rubenstein, and American Express Company. The national tour is supported in part by Lowry Hill.
The Weisman’s presentation is sponsored by 
Additional funding is provided by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and by Travelers.
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