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Spotlight Talk: Artist Perspective on The Knowledge Keepers

  • Boston Public Art Triennial 186 South Street Boston, MA, 02111 United States (map)

Join acclaimed artist Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University alumnus) as he discusses his site-specific sculptures created for the MFA’s inaugural “Huntington Avenue Entrance Commission.” Michelson’s installation, titled The Knowledge Keepers, honors local Indigenous presence and is, in part, a challenging response to Cyrus Dallin’s Appeal to the Great Spirit (1909), a sculpture that has stood at the MFA’s entrance since 1912. Michelson works in a range of media and materials, and his work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Gwangju Biennale.

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