Gallery Talk: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera

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Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by knowledge sharers across Northwestern and beyond.

The exhibit Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera presents an extensive selection of portraits that speak loudly of the broad diversity of Indigenous people engaged in the arts and cultural community.

This gallery talk is offered by Facing the Camera portrait subject June Carpenter (Osage/Shawnee), artist and Field Museum Repatriation Specialist. Co-facilitated by Felipe Gutiérrez, 2022–23 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, and co-curator of Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera.  

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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also generously supported by the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

About Gallery Talk Facilitators

June Carpenter is an Osage Nation tribal member and a self-taught, mixed-media artist. Primarily through embroidery, beadwork, and hand-cut paper, she addresses systemic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and explores connections to community and nature. As an artist and Repatriation Specialist, she seeks to meaningfully represent and honor Indigenous Peoples and to create work that is relevant, informative, and healing.

Felipe Gutiérrez Franco holds a B.A. in Literary Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and a M.A. in Latin American Literature and Culture from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, also in Bogotá. He specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth century Latin American and Iberian cultures, with a particular focus on issues of material and visual culture, museum and heritage studies. His research focuses on the relationship between tangible cultural heritage, literature, and visual arts in Colombia and Spain through the study of golden items, treasures, and gold as raw material in a transatlantic perspective. He was awarded the Block Museum Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship for the year 2022-2023 to support the museum’s agenda through exhibition and collection research, curating, writing, and catalog production. He is also the current chair of The Nineteenth Century Series, a year-round cycle of talks associated with 19th century studies in the Luso-Hispanic world at the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu