Kay Walkingstick's American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos

Opened February 2008

Kay WalkingStick, a trustee of the Montclair Art Museum and the first Native American female artist to be included in H.W. Janson’s History of Art, created a sight-specific mural, American Abstraction: Dialogue With the Cosmos, to reflect her Native American heritage. This landscape mural is a captivating ink painting of mountains with colorful parfleche bags suspended from various areas and heights. These bags, created from rawhide, represent the decorative bags Native America women use to transport dried meat and other imperative articles.

^{American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos is made possible with support from Exhibition Angels Bobbie & Bob Constable, and Judith Targan.}