Framework Panel #14

Where Art Worlds Meet: A Conversation with Indigenous Hawaiian, Native American, and Aboriginal Contemporary Artists

Friday, May 20, 2011 | 4:00 - 5:30pm

National Museum of the American Indian
Room 4018-19, Fourth Level

Presented by the National Museum of the American Indian and Transformer

MEDIA

• Framework Panel Invitation

• This is Hawai’i Exhibition Press Release

• This is Hawai’i Exhibition Program

Part of Transformer’s ongoing FRAMEWORK Panel Series, creating an oral field guide on best practices within the contemporary arts. A collaboration between Transformer and NMAI, this panel explores the dynamic growth of the global indigenous art scene over the past several years and how this rapid evolution has affected indigenous artists from different regions and cultural backgrounds.

Moderated by NMAI Associate Curator Kathleen Ash-Milby with artists Puni Kukahiko, Carl F. K. Pao, Gina Matchitt (Maori), and Alan Michelson (Mohawk), artist in the current NMAI Vantage Point exhibition.

Presented in conjunction with This IS Hawai’i, a two-site exhibition at Transformer and the National Museum of the American Indian, showcasing the work of indigenous Hawaiian artists Solomon Enos, Puni Kukahiko, Carl F. K. Pao and Maika‘i Tubbs