Showing posts with label Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s Artist Leadership Program 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s Artist Leadership Program 2012. Show all posts

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 6: First Plane Ride, and The River Inn

We hadn't flown in nearly twenty years when we boarded the tiny jet at DFW for the nonstop flight to D.C. Only a few nerves at take off, and then we enjoyed the Google Earth style view behind the wing.


Now you see it...

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 5: MSC National Anthropological Archives

In the National Anthropological Archives, we photographed hundreds of original documents from the time period of our study focus, the Choctaw Removal, otherwise known as the Trail of Tears.


What treasures are in here? Sarah Elisabeth opening yet another box of the dozens we examined and photographed at the NAA

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 2: Artist Training


It wasn’t a sightseeing trip. No vacation. We went to Washington, D.C. to work. Not saying there wasn’t plenty of fun along the way. But I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

Week One: Artist Training

Left to Right: Sarah Elisabeth, Theresa Secord (trainer), Aymar, Bobby, and Maria hard at work preparing PowerPoints for three upcoming presentations