First Friday With Molly Murphy Adams

The artist, Molly Murphy Adams, will be in attendance on First Friday at MAM to celebrate her exhibition The Space Between.

No-host bar. Live music by The Mighty Travis.

The public is also invited to a FREE Thursday gallery walk-and-talk with Murphy Adams at 5:30 PM on the previous evening, Nov. 2, at 5:30 PM and an all-ages artmaking workshop with the artist focused on moccasin design in MAM's Saturday Free Family Workshop on Nov. 4 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM.

Murphy Adams (descendant, Oglala/Lakota) was born in Great Falls, raised in western Montana, and now resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She learned beadwork at a very early age. Much of her work stems from combining traditional Native arts and contemporary art.

This exhibition explores Indigenous beadwork historically, philosophically, and visually. Murphy Adams says the title came from a desire to “reclaim and reexamine historic beadwork through an art history lens whereas it has always been examined and understood through an anthropology lens. For me there’s a space between disciplines—art history and anthropology—and between historic and contemporary.”

The Space Between is on view through January 8, 2024.