{"id":2518,"date":"2021-11-18T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:12:24","slug":"myaamia-culture-at-muam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2021\/11\/myaamia-culture-at-muam\/","title":{"rendered":"Myaamia Art at MUAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Miami University Art Museum regularly works with our friends at the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamioh.edu\/myaamia-center\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Myaamia Center&nbsp;<\/a>on campus to help make Myaamia cultural objects available for people to see and learn from.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the installation of new exhibitions this semester, staff also worked to enhance the&nbsp;<strong><em>Global Perspectives&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>exhibition with two Myaamia objects now featured for the first time in this semi-permanent installation. Eugene Brown\u2019s&nbsp;(Myaamia, Native American, 1926-2017)&nbsp;original&nbsp;<em>A Tribe Named Miami, A Surveyor\u2019s Stake, A Town Named Oxford<\/em>&nbsp;(2003) is on loan to MUAM by Dr. Joseph Leonard, the son of the late Myaamia Chief Floyd Leonard. In 2008, Brown\u2019s work was enlarged as a cast bronze piece located in MUAM\u2019s Sculpture Park (pictured below at right).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2526\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2021\/11\/myaamia-culture-at-muam\/pxl_20210824_135947462-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-2526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/PXL_20210824_135947462-1-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><em>Eugene Brown\u2019s&nbsp;(Myaamia, Native American, b. 1926-2017)&nbsp;original&nbsp;<em>A Tribe Named Miami, A Surveyor\u2019s Stake, A Town Named Oxford<\/em>&nbsp;(2003) is on loan to MUAM by Dr. Joseph Leonard, the son of the late Myaamia Chief Floyd Leonard.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1-746x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2527\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2021\/11\/myaamia-culture-at-muam\/a-tribe-called-miami-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-2527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1-746x1024.png 746w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1-768x1054.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/a-tribe-called-miami-1.png 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><em>A Tribe Named Miami, A Surveyor\u2019s Stake, A Town Named Oxford,<\/em> 2008, Eugene Brown (Myaamia, Native American, b. 1926-2017) a colorized cast bronze sculpture.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second piece is a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/myaamia-ribbonwork\/2020\/05\/mahkisina-moccasins-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">pair of&nbsp;<em>mahkisina<\/em>&nbsp;(moccasins)&nbsp;<\/a>created in 2019 by Myaamia artist and scholar Scott Shoemaker. The&nbsp;<em>mahkisina<\/em>&nbsp;were commissioned by MUAM for the Spring 2020 exhibition,&nbsp;<em>Myaamia Ribbonwork.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-2.56.39-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-2.56.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2528\" width=\"495\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-2.56.39-PM.png 839w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-2.56.39-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-2.56.39-PM-768x478.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-12.11.21-PM-1024x980.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2520 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-12.11.21-PM-1024x980.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-12.11.21-PM-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-12.11.21-PM-768x735.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-12.11.21-PM.png 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Myaamia Ribbonwork Exhibition viewable online<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Spring of 2020 the Art Museum in collaboration with the Myaamia Center curated a <em>Myaamia Ribbonwork<\/em> exhibition. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/myaamia-ribbonwork\/?_ga=2.98556639.177266419.1636990737-2089117595.1630080673\">An online version of it is available here. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Miami University Art Museum regularly works with our friends at the&nbsp;Myaamia Center&nbsp;on campus to help make Myaamia cultural objects available for people to see <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2021\/11\/myaamia-culture-at-muam\/\" title=\"Myaamia Art at MUAM\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-months","category-new-and-on-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}