CLAIMING TITLE
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ARTISTS AND THE LAND

Claiming Title presents paintings, prints, and photographs by rural and urban Aboriginal artists. Art making, traditionally a means of "caring for country," also plays a dynamic role in laying political claim to traditional homelands and articulating Aboriginal identities. This exhibition, comprising works borrowed from Australia and from U.S. collections, was curated by Laurel Bradley, Director of Exhibitions at Carleton College, and Nadine Wasserman, Curator, Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY, New Paltz, New York.

January 21 - March 12, 2000

Opening Lecture
Laurel Bradley, co-curator, Friday, January 21, 6:00 p.m.,
Wriston Art Center Auditorium

Opening Reception
Friday, January 21, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Video Presentations
Nice Colored Girls and Heaven, films by Australian artist Tracey Moffatt, Wednesday, February 16, 8:00 p.m., Wriston Auditorium

Dhuway: An Australian Diaspora and Homecoming (1997) and Jila (1997), films about Autralian Aboriginals and their land, Wednesday, March 1, 7:30 p.m., Wriston Auditorium

Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m. Closed Monday

For more information please call 920-832-6621, or access our website at http://www.lawrence.edu/news/wriston.shtml

This event is assisted by the Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.