Current Exhibition Today’s West Mezzazine Level overlooking the Hub Today’s West features selections from the Whitney Western Art Museum’s collection of contemporary art created since the 1950s. The subjects are familiar: the land, peoples, and wildlife of the American West. However, unconventional techniques and styles and modern-day themes distinguish these artworks from their historical counterparts. […]
Get to know the artists of our upcoming exhibition Native Nations Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art running May 17–October 29, 2018, in the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The artists featured in Native Nations Now are members of the Creative Indigenous Collective, “a group of professional Native American artists of […]
Past Exhibition Native Nations Now: An Exhibition of Contemporary Native Art May 17 – October 29, 2018 Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West partnered with the Creative Indigenous Collective to curate this groundbreaking exhibition from Plains Indian artists Robert Martinez, John Isaiah Pepion, Holly Young, Lauren Monroe, Louis Still Smoking, Gina Still Smoking, and […]
Originally published in Points West magazine Summer 2000 Multiple Influences: Compelling Issues Contemporary Indian Art Sarah E. Boehme Former Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum Paintings, sculpture and prints by contemporary Native American artists present some of the most interesting and challenging work being created in the West today. Artists who are Indian often delve into […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2002 By Frances B. Clymer, Former McCracken Research Library Librarian Artist and author Thom Ross, whose art has focused on the American West and baseball—his two great passions, loves to tell a story. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Whitney Western Art Museum is home to several […]
John Giarrizzo (b. 1955) was chosen as one of the Whitney Western Art Museum’s 2014 Artists in Residence at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Throughout his residence, Giarrizzo focused on the discipline of drawing and the practice of ‘learning from the masters’ by studying the western masters in the Whitney’s […]