Gallery Walk-and-Talk With Molly Murphy Adams

Join artist Molly Murphy Adams in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery for a walk-and-talk in advance of her First Friday celebration to hear about the processes, research, and art history behind her exhibition The Space Between.

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.