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'Making Is About Our Survival': Exhibition Celebrates Artwork Of Native Women

The "Hearts of Our People" exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. "We're still very powerfully here," says Anita Fields, one of the artists in the show.
The <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/native-women-artists">"Hearts of Our People"</a> exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. Above, <em>Náhookǫsjí Hai (Winter in the North)/Biboon Giiwedinong (It Is Winter in the North) </em>by D.Y. Begay (Navajo), 2018, wool and natural dyes.

One thousand years of Native American women's art is currently traveling around the country, being featured at major museums.

"The whole idea to wipe us off the face of the Earth didn't work," says Anita Fields, an Osage artist in the show. "So we're still very powerfully here."

is now on view at Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., just across the street from the White House. It's the third stop on a tour that

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