“Jeremy Frey: Woven” Exhibition Opening Lecture, May 23, 2024

Opening lecture with artist Jeremy Frey and co-curators Ramey Mize, Associate Curator of American Art (Portland Museum of Art) and Jaime DeSimone, Chief Curator (Farnsworth Art Museum). 

About the exhibition:
As the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States, “Jeremy Frey: Woven” is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art. Featuring more than 50 baskets, made from natural materials like black ash and sweetgrass, Woven presents a comprehensive collection that spans a career of more than two decades. These works are intricate, mesmerizing, and expressive, emphasizing Frey’s prodigious skill and prolific creative output that honors and transforms one of the oldest art forms in the northeast.