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Sat September 13, 2025

Arts of Indigenous America: Opening Celebration

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Join us for a free, daylong community event featuring talks, performances, and demonstrations by contemporary Indigenous artists. This celebration marks the opening of the reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries and the special exhibition Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON.

This day is part of a series of free public programs and education initiatives around the Arts of Indigenous America galleries that will unfold over the next three years.

Visit the Arts of Indigenous America in Galleries 1-4.

Schedule

10am - 12noon: Symposium: Curating Native American Art
Speakers: Brian Vallo (Pueblo of Acoma), Pimm Tripp-Allen (Karuk/Yurok), and Alme Allen (Karuk/Yurok). Panel discussion with Joseph Aguilar (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Meeyokeeskow Marrufo (Robinson Rancheria/Eastern Pomo), Hillary C. Olcott, Will Riding In (Pawnee/Santa Ana Pueblo), and Sherrie Smith-Ferri (Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega Miwok)

11am - 3pm: Family Art Making
11am - 3pm: Art Demonstrations, Wilsey Court
1pm - 4:30pm: DJ Garronteed (Jemez Pueblo), Wilsey Court
2pm - 2:30pm: Dance Performance and Cultural Sharing with Karuk Brush Dance Group, Wilsey Court
3pm - 4:30pm: Artist talks, Koret Auditorium


Image Credit: Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (Woody Crumbo) (Citizen Potawatomi, 1912-1989). Spirit of Spring (detail), ca. 1950. Color screenprint on paper, 12 1/3 x 16 1/3 in. (31.4 x 41.6 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1963.30.24415. © Estate of Woody Crumbo. Photograph by Jorge Bachmann
Join us for a free, daylong community event featuring talks, performances, and demonstrations by contemporary Indigenous artists. This celebration marks the opening of the reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries and the special exhibition Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON.

This day is part of a series of free public programs and education initiatives around the Arts of Indigenous America galleries that will unfold over the next three years.

Visit the Arts of Indigenous America in Galleries 1-4.

Schedule

10am - 12noon: Symposium: Curating Native American Art
Speakers: Brian Vallo (Pueblo of Acoma), Pimm Tripp-Allen (Karuk/Yurok), and Alme Allen (Karuk/Yurok). Panel discussion with Joseph Aguilar (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Meeyokeeskow Marrufo (Robinson Rancheria/Eastern Pomo), Hillary C. Olcott, Will Riding In (Pawnee/Santa Ana Pueblo), and Sherrie Smith-Ferri (Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega Miwok)

11am - 3pm: Family Art Making
11am - 3pm: Art Demonstrations, Wilsey Court
1pm - 4:30pm: DJ Garronteed (Jemez Pueblo), Wilsey Court
2pm - 2:30pm: Dance Performance and Cultural Sharing with Karuk Brush Dance Group, Wilsey Court
3pm - 4:30pm: Artist talks, Koret Auditorium


Image Credit: Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (Woody Crumbo) (Citizen Potawatomi, 1912-1989). Spirit of Spring (detail), ca. 1950. Color screenprint on paper, 12 1/3 x 16 1/3 in. (31.4 x 41.6 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1963.30.24415. © Estate of Woody Crumbo. Photograph by Jorge Bachmann
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