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The Hood Presents 'Maḏayin' Exhibit

Posted on October 20, 2022

Curator Jami Powell discusses the exhibit of Aboriginal Australian bark painting.

Bark painting showing at the Dartmouth Hood Museum
(Video by Chris Johnson)

The Hood Museum of Art is home to the debut of “Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala” through Dec. 4.

In this video, Curator of Indigenous Art Jami Powell discusses what she says is “the most significant exhibition of bark paintings to ever travel the United States.” It is co-curated, she notes, by Indigenous Australians.