John Isaiah Pepion. “When the Buffalo Came Back.” 2018 © John Isaiah Pepion.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Our three new exhibitions for summer 2018 are now all open!
Native Nations Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art is now open!
Open through October 29, 2018
The Center of the West’s Plains Indian Museum is partnering with the Creative Indigenous Collective on this special exhibition featuring the work of Plains Indian artists Robert Martinez, John Isaiah Pepion, Holly Young, Lauren Monroe, Louis Still Smoking, Gina Still Smoking, and Ben Pease.
Learn more about this exhibition.
Bierstadt’s “The Buffalo Trail,” ca. 1867. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 47.1268
Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West
Open through September 30, 2018
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Gilcrease Museum have partnered to present a groundbreaking exhibition titled Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West. Bierstadt (1830–1902) is best known as America’s premier western landscape artist, as well as a renowned history painter, a rarely discussed element of his legacy. This major exhibition addresses Bierstadt in context of his treatment not just of majestic mountains and lakes but more prominently of bison and American Indians, whom he approached as key subjects for his art.
Learn more about this exhibition.
Monarch of the Skies: The Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone and the American West
A new permanent exhibition
Golden eagle alighting on a branch. Moosejaw Bravo Photography image.
Monarch of the Skies: The Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone and the American West is an exciting, new exhibition that immerses visitors in the sagebrush grasslands of Wyoming through recreated sandstone cliffs and other habitats, stunning video and photography, taxidermy mounts, models, and other natural history objects, Native American cultural materials, rock art, and engaging interactive elements. Through interactive storytelling and audiovisual presentations focused on the Draper Museum’s long-term golden eagle studies in the Bighorn Basin and similar studies in other regions of western North America, visitors are introduced to the process, product, and adventure of scientific inquiry and discovery. The exhibition will provide an especially dynamic platform for ongoing educational programming about sagebrush-steppe landscapes and wildlife, cultural associations with eagles and other wildlife, and the process and importance of scientific problem-solving.
