Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations) presents a solo exhibition of her large-scale, backlit, color transparency photography, which she terms “fireboxes.” Works from her Lasso and Headdress series, including a newly commissioned Headdress portrait, draw together contemporary Native subjects with regalia and items from the subject’s own cultures. The exhibition situates many of the objects depicted in the firebox images alongside objects from the BMA’s historic Native art collection. Together, they recognize cultural belongings as extensions of the people who made them, provoking a consideration of personal and institutional care.

Other featured artists whose names are known to us include:

• Kim Soo Goodtrack (Hunkpapa Lakota, b. 1955, Wood Mountain, SK, Canada)

• Butch Thunder Hawk (Húnkpapȟa Lakȟóta, b. 1946, Cannonball, ND)

— From the Baltimore Museum of Art’s website