Julie Buffalohead

Join us for a walkthrough of Travois with artist Julie Buffalohead. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in the Twin Cities since her solo show Storytelling: Julie Buffalohead at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 2019.

The walkthrough is a wonderful opportunity to dive into Buffalohead's practice with the artist and learn the stories behind her extraordinary paintings and powerful new sculptures. Interlacing Native American histories and beliefs with personal family narratives, the artist’s imaginative and wryly humorous practice uses allegory and symbolism to reconcile often painful legacies through the transformative and malleable properties of storytelling. Drawing from Native American oral and material culture, Buffalohead’s painterly renditions of women and animal spirits alongside sculptural objects in rawhide, beads, porcupine quills, dentalium and abalone shells revives and recontextualizes historically elided traditions.