Arts & Performance

Contemporary Exhibition Explodes Stereotypes of Native American Art


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CULLOWHEE -- Picture in your mind a traditional Cherokee Indian basket. You can see its shape, the bands of bundled pine needles or rivercane wicker, the painted patterns drawn from tribal imagery. But when you these baskets, do you reflect on treaty violations, the appropriation of Native names and imagery or forced removal from ancestral homelands? You might if the baskets were made by Shan Goshorn. She’s Eastern Cherokee and among the many artists with work in “ Return from Exile:
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