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"Organized by guest curator Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee), director/curator of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the upcoming exhibition To Take Shape and Meaning: Form and Design in Contemporary American Indian Art features works by 75 Indigenous artists from over 50 tribes throughout the United States and Canada, including eight from North Carolina. To Take Shape and Meaning brings together a wide range of Indigenous world views, ideas, experiences, traditions, cultures, and media and emphasizes the continuity and evolution of Native arts, both collective and individual expressions of Native America. The exhibition, composed exclusively of 3-D artworks, includes baskets made of blown glass, cars transformed into works of art, and cutting-edge fashion ensembles embellished with elaborate beadwork and feathers. This project supports the NCMA's ongoing goal of presenting expansive and inclusive art historical narratives in all aspects of the Museum and of bringing in contemporary artists whose works focus on themes that are particularly relevant to the concerns of the current moment." -- From exhibition webpage: https://ncartmuseum.org/to-take-shape-and-meaning/ 

xi, 179 pages : color illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 31 cm 

Director's Foreword / Valerie Hillings -- Acknowledgments / Nancy Strickland Fields and Linda Johnson Dougherty -- Lenders to the exhibition -- To Take Shape and Meaning / Nancy Strickland Fields -- Of an Artist / Rose B. Simpson -- Creating a Future of Hope / Stephen Fadden -- Plates -- Place of Being -- Rootedness -- Genealogy -- Encoded Commentary -- Revival and Evolution -- Artist Biographies -- Works in the Exhibition -- About the Authors -- Photo Credits.