Wendy Red Star: New work
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Opening Fall 2027
Production | Acquisition Grant
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has commissioned MacArthur Fellow Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke) to create a new large-scale, site-specific sculpture to premiere in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery’s presentation of “Wendy Red Star: Whispering Spirit” (working title). The new commission will align with the artist’s practice of creating work that entangles past and present, individual and collective, local and national.
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Wendy Red Star, Alaxchiiaahush/Many War Achievements / Plenty Coups, 2014. Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy Wendy Red Star. © Wendy Red Star.
