Exhibition Guide

Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum

Journey through the Museum to hear eight local Native speakers find connections with 14 artworks. From early European still-life painting and sculpture to a 1930s vacuum cleaner, their diverse stories resonate throughout the BMA collection in personal ways.

Exhibition Guide

Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum

Fishnet Float (Kopalla)

Pendant

Mural Fragment with Priest

Mortar

Vase

Hiawatha and the Great Serpent, the Kenabeek

Richard Henry Bayard

View of Mount Vernon

Window: Baptism of Christ

Vacuum Cleaner

Blackware Vessel

Bull Durham

Virgin and Child