Smithsonian American Art Museum: Megan A. Smetzer Awarded the 36th Annual Eldredge Prize for "Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience"
September 11, 2024
September 11, 2024
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum issued the following news release:
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience (University of Washington Press, 2021). Through extensive archival and museum research, Smetzer shows how beaders countered repressive colonial systems and s . . .
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience (University of Washington Press, 2021). Through extensive archival and museum research, Smetzer shows how beaders countered repressive colonial systems and s . . .