Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

"What was really exciting about this reinstallation is that we collaborated much more closely with Native community members," Laura J. Allen, the curator of Native American art at Mam, tells The Art Newspaper. "And we really pushed the envelope in terms of new acquisitions and commissions, to present our collection in the most exciting and sensitive way possible."

The long-term exhibition at Mam, Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge/Native Art, revitalises the museum's legendary holdings of over 4,000 pieces of Native American art through a fresh, atemporal lens, collapsing history with cultural memory.

This reprioritisation of Indigenous culture in institutions reflects a broader shift in discourse on Native American contributions to visual culture, emerging from the shadows and into a renaissance.

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