Photographing Native America
Art Museum Galleries
Artist Zig Jackson with introduction by Mac Chambers ’19
Artist Zig Jackson is a professor of photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design and a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation. Jackson’s work challenges popular and deeply ingrained conceptions of Native Americans and encourages viewers to embrace the narratives that people tell us about themselves. On view through December 16, a selection of Jackson’s photographs are featured in dialogue with historic images of Native people in the Collection Spotlight Photographing Native America, curated by Mac Chambers ’19.
Events And Links
Collection Spotlight
This spotlight features works by photographer and member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, Zig Jackson (b. 1957) in conversation with early 20th-century photographs by Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1914). In his work, Jackson challenges deeply ingrained popular...