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Lawrence Ciarallo: Beyond the Studio
Muralist and painter Lawrence Ciarallo reflects on how Jersey City's rapid changes are impacting the artists who call it home. He shares how his murals and mixed media collages, are shaped by the community he navigates daily.
A work by Ciarallo is currently on view in MAM's exhibition, 2024 New Jersey Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections.
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Native Art Collection Gets a Much-Needed Rehang at Montclair Art Museum
Museums tend to conceive of Native identity as static or even a thing of the past, relegating ephemera to the furthest, darkest corner of its permanent collections. In the long-term installation, Interwoven Power...[the] Montclair Art Museum achieves a sorely needed curatorial feat: an institutional display of Indigenous art that courses with vitality.
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Montclair Art Museum Looks to the Future with a Reassessed Native American Art Collection
The Luce grant enabled the museum to reassess the collection in view of contemporary best practices and NAGPRA guidelines...The exhibition includes 50 historical, modern and contemporary works by artists from more than 40 Native nations, including numerous new commissions and recent acquisitions
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