Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True

Her Dreams Are True provides a new perspective on the role of archives, museum collections, and personal memory in Apsálooke (Crow) artist Wendy Red Star's prints and photographs. Throughout her large body of work, Red Star reconsiders and liberates archival photographs and materials from a fixed historical moment. This exhibition provides visitors with an opportunity to see the artist’s recent works that recontextualize hand-painted illustrations of artifacts in the Denver Art Museum’s Indigenous collection. Red Star juxtaposes these cultural belongings with her own photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. Returning to her hand-written notes in the Bíiluuke series (2023), Red Star also provides a nuanced intervention with Apsáalooke heritage items from several public collections. More than a meditation on the past, Red Star’s archival work looks to the future and offers a new perspective on rematriation. 

Wendy Red Star is this year’s recipient of Dickinson College’s prestigious Arts Award.…