Guest Lecture: W. Richard West, Jr., Elder-in-Residence

This talk is now FULL. To be added to the waitlist, please email acklandRSVP@unc.edu.

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A free public talk presented by the American Indian Center at the Ackland as part of their Elder-in-Residence program. Dr. W. Richard West, Jr. (Southern Cheyenne) has served as the founding director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and the president and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West. The talk will be followed by a reception. Space is limited and registration is required.

This talk is sponsored by the American Indian Center at UNC-Chapel Hill as part of their weeklong Elder-in-Residence program and presented in connection with Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum.

Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Gilcrease Museum.

The Ackland’s presentation of this exhibition has been made possible by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, and Jeff and Liesl Wilke ’92 (JD).

Exhibition-related public programs are supported by a Spark the Arts Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Additional support for the Ackland’s presentation of Past Forward: Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum is provided by Kerry D. Bird & Ken Gahagan.