Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale storytelling invisible citizens in their own

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and the United States-Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights

Through its refusal to treat Indigenous media simply as a set of cultural aesthetics

Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale storytelling invisible citizens in their ownIn Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and most recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo's experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and breakthroughs in an ever shifting global art market.