Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness.

Boston University Arts Initiative, in partnership with Boston University Art Galleries, announces a special exhibition at 808 Gallery in spring 2024: Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness., which is part of the expansive Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America. The book by the same name was published in April 2023, and instantly became a New York Times Best Seller.

Created by acclaimed visual artist and social documentarian Matika Wilbur, who is from the Tulalip & Swinomish Tribes, Project 562 is a bold creative expedition to collaborate with each of the 562-plus sovereign Native American nations in the United States in their own territories for superb photographic portraits and compelling narratives of contemporary Native American identity. Over the course of producing Project 562, Wilbur traveled through all 50 states, from Seminole country, now known as the Everglades in South Florida, to Inuit territory, now known as the Bering Sea in Alaska. By her estimation, she photographed some 1200 people, personally visiting about 400 different tribes. This creative, consciousness-shifting work is now distributed as curricula in partnership with the National Education Association: “A Visual Leaning Guide to Transform, Indigenize & Decolonize,” in her 416 page book published by Ten Speed Press, at various exhibitions around the world, through her podcast All My Relations, and at Project562.com.

For more information, visit https://www.bu.edu/art/natural-wanderment-stewardship-sovereignty-sacredness/.