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Meet Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

July 28, 2020

Smithsonian American Art Museum An interview with the artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and traveled around the Pacific Northwest and California with her father, who was a horse trader. Smith decided she wanted to be an artist after watching a film on the French painter…

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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch: ‘Protest is the Highest Form of Patriotism, You Are Trying to Make a Country Better’

July 21, 2020

by Victoria L. Valentine on June 2, 2020 • 11:58 pm THIS IS NOT NEW, unfortunately. America has been killing black people in one form or another since the nation’s founding. From lynching to murder by police, the history is well-documented and contextualized in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), most poignantly…

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