Heard Museum offers new exhibition of Native art and footwear
Staff Reports | Digital Free Press
The Heard Museum is announcing the opening of its new exhibition, Art & Sole, on May 3.
Art & Sole will feature shoes painted, beaded, and styled by more than a dozen Native artists, according to a press release.
In the exhibition, each pair of shoes will be partnered with artwork by the same artist, showing the style within which they commonly create, and thus demonstrating how an artist’s visual language translates across different forms.
By utilizing shoes as a common thread and medium, the exhibition aims to show how creations by Native people are connected to broader society and the artistic world.
Most of the works will be drawn from the Heard Museum’s permanent collection, with many of the shoes having been acquired as a generous gift from Charles King. The shoes and many of the additional works will be drawn directly from the Heard Museum’s permanent collection, including works by:
•Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo)
•Susan Folwell (Santa Clara Pueblo)
•Teri Greeves (Kiowa)
•Jason Garcia/Okuu PÃn (Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa)
•Jennifer Tafoya (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Many of the shoes being featured in the exhibition were acquired as a generous gift from Charles King.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Virginia M. Ullman Foundation, Susan Esco Chandler & Alfred D. Chandler and Lily Chester in memory of Sheldon Chester. The exhibition will be open through Jan. 5, 2025.