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Erica Lord Multimedia artist at the Institute of American Indian Arts
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Erica Lord
Public Lecture Title: The Codes We Carry: Beads as DNA Data
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm, Wilson Hall's Concert Hall
Exhibition at Staniar Gallery in Wilson Hall
The Codes We Carry: Beads as DNA Data
January 9 – February 7, 2025
Lord received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and a Master of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lord has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe; the Musée du Quai Branley, Paris; the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian and The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lord lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she continues her art practice and teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art.
Lord is an enrolled member of Nenana Native Village.
This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of Staniar Gallery, the Department of Art and Art History, the History Department, the Biology Department, Environmental Studies, the Native American and Indigenous Cohort, and the Class of '63 Scholars-in-Residence Program administered by the Provost's Office.