Best Traveling Exhibition

"Ceramic Seed Jar," Lucy Martin Lewis

Opportunities to see large-scale exhibitions of contemporary and historical art by Native American women don’t come along often. With last fall’s Hearts of Our People, the Frist Art Museum brought that experience to Nashville in a spectacular way. It showed Native American women as imaginative, world-class artists. The displays encouraged visitors to consider the artists, tribes and nations represented in multifaceted ways. Through media such as sculpture, textile, photography and installation, themes of legacy, relationships and power emerged. The traveling exhibition started at the Minneapolis Museum of Art, is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and will head to the Philbrook Museum of Art next. SARA LEE BURD

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