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Virtual Student Guide Tour: This Land Is Whose Land?, with Jacqueline Zoeller

In this photomontage, a smiling young woman with dark hair appears to hold a large color photograph. It depicts a seated Native American woman, dressed in brightly colored traditional clothing, in an autumnal landscape scene, with a lake and a snow-capped mountain in the background. A deer is to the woman’s left and a cow skull is to her right.
In this photomontage, Jacqueline Zoeller holds up Wendy Red Star’s Indian Summer (2006), one of the works she will discuss on the tour. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2018.188.4. © Wendy Red Star.

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This event was recorded. Please view the talk on our Vimeo channel.

On this tour commemorating Native American Heritage Month, Jacqueline Zoeller ’23 will contrast colonial visions of the Western U.S. landscape, such as Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863), with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists. Stops on the tour will include Diné artist Will Wilson’s Mexican Hat Disposal Cell (2020), a landscape photograph of Halchita, Utah, the Navajo Nation, featured in the special exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970; Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star’s photographic series Four Seasons (2006); and a group of photographs by Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara artist Zig Jackson from the 1990s that entered the museums’ collections only last year.

Jason Packineau, community coordinator of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), will join Zoeller to state the land acknowledgment.

In collaboration with HUNAP, the Ho Family Student Guides have created a digital collection of some of the works at the museums that speak to the Native American experience. This collection will help spur further conversations about Native American representation at the museums.

This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94608608732 (free admission; no pre-registration required).

Virtual Student Guide Tours take place every Thursday at 8pm on Zoom. Each tour is unique and offers a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Drop in and join the conversation!

Read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. For general questions about Student Guide Tours, email am_register@harvard.edu.

This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.

The Harvard Art Museums have reopened to the public. Reservations are required for visitors and can be made up to three weeks in advance. Please visit the museum website for more information.

Devour the Land is made possible in part by the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support for the project is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Fund and the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.