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DESCRIPTION:Native American jewelry has a capaciousness\, allowing wider th
 eoretical and museological trends to be understood\, while also illuminati
 ng a granular articulation of lives\, community aesthetics\, and market fo
 rces. Addressing early anthropological enquiry\, later craft scholarship\,
  and more recent art historical writing\, this lecture examines the condit
 ions under which knowledge about Native American jewelry has been produced
 \, and how those conditions have been reshaped through sustained acts of t
 hinking and looking\, and through conversations with makers.An Indigenous 
 Arts in Transition Lecture.Henrietta Lidchi is a researcher and curator wh
 ose work focuses on art and material culture of Indigenous North America\,
  critical historical work on European museums\, and questions of represent
 ation and photography. Publications include The Poetics and Politics of Re
 presenting World (Other) Cultures (2025)\, Dividing the Spoils: Perspectiv
 es on Military Collections and the British Empire (2020)\, Surviving Desir
 es: Making and Selling Jewellery in the American Southwest (2015)\, Visual
  Currencies: Reflections on Native Photography (2009)\, and Imaging the Ar
 ctic (1998). Lidchi has worked at the British Museum\, National Museums Sc
 otland\, and the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. Most recently\, she served as the
  executive director of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Sa
 nta Fe. She has curated numerous exhibitions and participated in major int
 ernational research initiatives\, including projects at the Humboldt-Unive
 rsität zu Berlin and the School of Social and Political Science at the Uni
 versity of Edinburgh. In 2017–22 she was involved in national policy devel
 opment\, serving on national committees in the Netherlands and Austria rel
 ating to colonial collecting and questions of return. In May Lidchi moved 
 to Berlin to take up the role of director of the Ethnological Museum and t
 he Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum.Object LabsAt Bard Graduate C
 enter\, we use an object-centered approach to advance the study of the dec
 orative arts\, design history\, and material culture. Join our student edu
 cators before select Fall 2026 public events to learn about some of the ob
 jects in BGC’s Study Collection. Each week we will showcase three objects 
 carefully selected from the collection\, which includes more than five tho
 usand objects in a variety of media. Drop in anytime between 5 and 6 pm\; 
 the experience takes roughly ten minutes.October 7\, 14\, and 21November 4
 \, 11\, and 1838 West 86th Street\, New York5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BG
 C Study Collection supports student research by providing opportunities fo
 r hands-on close examination of objects. Learn more about the BGC Study Co
 llection here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Listen to Your Earrings: Remaking Our Relatio
 nships with Native American Jewelry
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