Join us! Photographer Jeremy Dennis, an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, leads an interactive gallery talk that re-examines the portrayal of Indigenous people through a contemporary lens. Centered around the dynamic juxtaposition of Indians Simulating Buffalo (1908) by Frederic Remington and Oh My Aching Breaking Beading Heart (2024) by Shelley Niro, two works featured in Everything Has a Story: Reflections on the Collection, the program creates a dialogue between historic and modern artworks, actively working to decolonize visual narratives and make space for lived Indigenous experiences in museum galleries.

The program will also feature a newly commissioned collaborative artwork created with non-Native contemporary artist Ariel Bullion Ecklund as a direct artistic response to the works, embodying interdisciplinary co-authorship and exploring Indigenous representation through shared visual language. Ariel is also a collaborating artist and model for Dennis’s Rise series about visibility and self-representation. The event wraps up with an audience conversation centered on cultural memory.