Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity—particularly gender and sexuality—through photographic portraiture. Drawing from their experience as a queer, nonbinary person, Dugan’s work continually investigates what it means to live authentically and how visual representation plays a powerful role in that process. Dugan was the 2020–2021 Henry L. and Natalie … Continued

Join cocurators Nichole Bridges, the Morton D. May Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Philippe Peltier, former head and senior curator of the Oceania and Insulindia unit, Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, as they explore a few recently reinstalled artworks from Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, and Polynesia. They will highlight selected masks and sculpture from … Continued

A recently installed gallery of southwestern Indigenous art at SLAM features a watercolor by Tonita Peña (Pueblo of San Ildefonso, 1893–1949). Alexander Marr, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Native American Art, will explore Peña’s art and her role in histories of Native American modernism. The sole woman among the first Native easel … Continued