From Giuliana Taccone Where did you come from? Who were you made by? How did you get to Italy? These were questions that I first asked myself when I came across pairs of moccasins listed on the GRASAC platform. There are three pairs of moccasins located in the Museum of Anthropology and ...
GRASAC Member Francesca Herbert-Spence is New Curator at the Gardiner Museum
From The Gardiner Museum The Gardiner Museum has announced the appointment of Franchesca Hebert-Spence as its inaugural Curator of Indigenous Ceramics. Hebert-Spence will oversee the narrative and content development of the Gardiner Museum’s new Indigenous gallery space, part of a full-scale ...
Toledo Museum Of Art Acquires Collection of Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee Art
From the Toledo Museum of Art The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is delighted to announce that it has been able to acquire twenty-four beautiful examples of 18th century Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee art. Until 2005, these items were in the private family collection of Scotsman Alexander ...
GRASACers Awarded at 2024 Canadian Museums Association Awards!
Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy - Outstanding Achievement Award In the Social Impact CategoryFrom the McCord Stewart Museum The exhibition Wampum: Beads of Diplomacy brought together 40 wampum belts under the same roof—a first since museums began collecting them—and illuminated for the ...
Mapping the Exhibition of Kahkewāquonāby’s Pouch
From Emily Ing In April 2017, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) made public a promised gift of 91 pieces of Native American art from prominent art collectors, Charles and Valerie Diker. Among these pieces is a piece labelled "Shoulder bag (missing strap)" that can be traced back to an 1845 ...