Collecting in a Changing World showcases recent Museum of Northern Arizona acquisitions that reflect evolving art, culture, and science across the Colorado Plateau.
Featured works in the exhibit include art and pottery from the Hopi-Tewa Nampeyo-Namingha family, paintings by Hopi-Tewa artists Duane Koyawena and Ed Kabotie, and items representing resilience, such as pandemic-era Indigenous artifacts and moccasins worn by Bearsun, a social media phenomenon who walked across the Navajo Nation. The exhibit includes Star Wars-inspired Diné art, collected initially for MNA’s popular The Force is With Our People exhibition from 2019-2020. In addition, Collecting in a Changing World underscores the MNA’s focus on the art, culture, and science of the Colorado Plateau with newly acquired Hopi kachina dolls depicting plant and animal life positioned alongside corresponding regional botanical and insect specimens. Explore how art, culture, and nature shape MNA’s collections and discover the connections between the past and the present.
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