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Happy New Year! 2026 is Year of the Horse.

Horse is confident, agreeable, and responsible. They’re also energetic, intelligent, and fit.

What kind of horse are you going to be for the new year?

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Join us in celebrating the work of Wendy Red Star, an Apsáalooke (Crow) multimedia artist.

Wendy Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation, in the land currently recognized as Montana. This experience is fundamental to Red Star’s work, as she explores the historical and contemporary tensions between Indigenous ideologies and colonial structures. Working in many formats, Red Star utilizes archival images, pop culture references, landscape, and portraits in her collages, installations, photographs, videos, fiber arts, sculptures, and performances. Red Star’s work across disciplines has an indisputable impact on contemporary art and Native representation.

Crow Country (bottom left) is one of the Fine Arts Library’s newest special collections acquisitions. In this limited edition photo book, Red Star explores her relationship with the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation where she was raised. These photos capture Red Star’s unique artistic perspective, blending nostalgia and deep connections to land and community with humor and unsettling intimacy.

This work, along with other contemporary Indigenous art pieces, will be on view at the Fine Arts Library Open House this Thursday, September 18th.

Also pictured, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth (top left) and Bíilukaa (right).

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Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke artist born in Billings, Montana, and based in Portland, Oregon. Red Star mines archival materials from photographs, maps, legal documents, recordings, artworks, to sacred objects that speak to the multivalence of Apsáalooke experience. Using a wide range of mediums and strategies from photography to installation, Red Star challenges existing histories of Native Americans, particularly related to her Crow heritage and from a distinctly feminist Indigenous perspective. (Summarized from Forward.)

Wendy Red Star : delegation is one of our newest acquisitions. We’re honoring Native American Heritage Month this month!

Image 1: “Fall” from Four Seasons, 2006

Image 2, 3 & 4: Detail from “Um-basax-bilua (W here They Make The Noise)”, 2017

Image 5: Book cover including the image from “Her Dreams Are True (Julia Bad Boy)”, 2021

Wendy Red Star : delegation Featuring contributions by Jordan Amirkhani, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Josh T. Franco, Annika K. Johnson, Layli Long Soldier, Tiffany Midge. New York, NY : Aperture ; Dallas, TX : Documentary Arts, 2022. 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm English 2022 HOLLIS number: 99156378795603941

To celebrate the thousands of women who painstakingly created the parfleches but are not credited with the craftsmanship, artist @wendyredstar titled each of the 12 paintings in "Travels Pretty" after women from the Apsáalooke tribe, whose names she found in the 1885 Crow Census. Learn more about the parfleches, the exhibition, and find an artwork on a @jcdecauxna bus shelter near you at publicartfund.org/WendyRedStar #WendyRedStar, Brings Things Herself, 2022 Courtesy the artist Photo: Mel Taing @m.ltaing, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY Artwork a part of Wendy Red Star: Travels Pretty, presented in Boston by Public Art Fund on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York City, Boston, and Chicago, on view from August 10—November 20, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cic5Q4judAX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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For her first public art exhibition, @wendyredstar explores parfleches, vibrantly painted rawhide bags made by certain nomadic tribes of the North American Great Plains. Painted with intricate geometric designs, these carrying cases were used by the Apsáalooke and other tribes to store and transport food and personal possessions. Learn more about parfleches and the exhibition at publicartfund.org/WendyRedStar #WendyRedStar Wendy Red Star, Walks Pretty, 2022 Courtesy the artist Photo: David Sampson @dcsampson, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY. Artwork a part of Wendy Red Star: Travels Pretty, presented in Chicago by Public Art Fund on 300 @jcdecauxna bus shelters across New York City, Boston, and Chicago, on view from August 10—November 20, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVHdDuloWe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Parfleche designs go beyond the idea of abstract painting which is a Western lens for looking at them. To me they represent a community of people immediately recognized as the Apsáalooke Nation.” - @wendyredstar Coming soon to @jcdecauxna 🚍bus shelters across New York City, Chicago, and Boston, #WendyRedStar: Travels Pretty. For her first public art exhibition, @wendyredstar continues her practice of mining museum archives and collections that house Apsáalooke (Crow) objects. This series of works explores parfleches, the “suitcases” of the nomadic tribes of the North American Great Plains. Taking the parfleches outside of the museum and reinterpreting them as 12 vibrant paintings, "Travels Pretty" makes these objects visible and accessible, sharing Indigenous cultural perspectives with all. "Standing as a metaphor for mobility and travel, the works draw associations between these suitcases used to transport goods and buses that transport people." - Associate Curator Katerina Stathopoulou @kstath Image: Wendy Red Star, “Makes The Lodge Good,” 2022 Acrylic, digital print Courtesy the artist Commissioned by Public Art Fund for Wendy Red Star: Travels Pretty, an exhibition on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Boston, and Chicago, on view from August 10—November 20, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWs3p2Ocgy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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