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Emphasizing the role of women artists and feminine aesthetics in crafting African and African diaspora art histories, this exhibition surveys themes of home, kinship, motherhood, femininity, and intimacy in both historic and contemporary works.
Featuring a new body of paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman—including two commissioned works for the Hood Museum of Art's permanent collections—The Great Mystery serves as both an introduction to and a revisitation of Monkman's early interest in abstract expressionism.
Playing upon the dual definitions of liquidity—liquid assets bought and sold, as well as liquid substances—this exhibition mines the historical connections between art, water, and commodities.
Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation highlights the work of contemporary North American "Two-Spirit" artists, exploring the ways in which two-spirit communities reclaim ancestral knowledge and imagine possible futures.
This exhibition is organized by the students of ARTH 20.04, "Faith and Empire: Art in the Early Modern World," taught by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art.
The artists in Layered Histories deftly use color, pattern, and abstraction to create a sense of place that layers images of the land (known as Country) with creation stories, historical events, and significant animals, plants, and people.