Kay WalkingStick’s American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos

Press Release

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, has created a site-specific mural, American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos, to honor 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 American women used to transport dried meat and other necessities. The parfleche designs are inspired by the landscapes that surrounded these women and are based on abstract designs of the Nez Perce and other tribes.

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