ACQUISITION

A mixed media sculpture by Holly Wilson finds a home at the Michener Art Museum.

MICHENER ART MUSEUM The Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, recently acquired a large-scale mixed media piece by Delaware Nation artist Holly Wilson. Bloodline, which measures 22 feet across, depicts the elongated forms of bronze figures walking across rough-cut slabs of locust wood. “It is the stories of family, history and identity that brought me to Bloodline. It is a long trail of my Native American history, my bloodline,” says Wilson. “To be ‘on the Rolls’ as a Native American, you must prove a quantum of blood verified through birth and death records until you match up to a name on the official ‘Dawes Rolls.’ As I began walking through the past to document my blood, with the names and some faces, I wanted to hear them speak and tell their story.…

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Native American Art (Digital) - 1 Issue, June-July 2024/No. 51

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