Gallery Talk: It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig

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Jordan Ann Craig is known for large-scale paintings, prints, and painting-inspired installations. Her work develops out of an engagement with abstraction rooted in Northern Cheyenne and other Indigenous aesthetic traditions and a dynamic and innovative exploration of color, line, and form. 

This Gallery Talk of the the exhibition It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig will be led by Jacqui Lopez, 2023-2024 Block Museum Interdisciplinary Fellow.  

Block Gallery Talks offer a close look at select works on view centering the interdisciplinary questions, perspectives and expertise of faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond.   

Participation level – light, participants may choose to share thoughts and questions during the tour.  

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Jacqueline Lopez holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology from DePaul University and is a current PhD student in the History department at Northwestern University where she was selected as the Mellon Cluster Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Jacqueline has held several roles in various museums, archives, and other cultural institutions where her work focused on public history and the equity and inclusion of historically excluded populations in these spaces. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at The Block Museum. 

The Block Museum of Art acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.  

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