Opening Reception: "Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True"

Please join us for the Opening Reception of Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True on Friday, November 7, 5-7 PM.

Red Star's artwork is featured in the exhibition on view, Her Dreams Are True. In this body of work, Red Star, Apsa´alooke (Crow), provides a new perspective on the role of archives, museum collections, and personal memory in her prints and photographs. Throughout her career, Red Star has reconsidered and liberated archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. This exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to see the artist’s recent works that recontextualize hand-painted illustrations of artifacts in the Denver Art Museum’s Indigenous collection. Red Star juxtaposes these cultural belongings with her own photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. Returning to her hand-written notes in the Bi´iluuke series (2023), Red Star also provides a nuanced intervention with Apsa´alooke heritage items from several public collections. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star’s archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation.

Free and Open to the Public. Drinks and light hours d'oeuvres will be served.