ON VIEW MAY 27, 2025 – JUNE 24, 2025
The Great Elephant Migration is a global fundraising adventure to amplify indigenous knowledge and inspire the human race, to share space. This one-year campaign, that launched in July 2024 in Newport, RI, will see 100 magnificent Indian elephants migrate across the USA to share their coexistence story with the world. The elephants will be coming to the Sculpture Trail at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in June of 2025!
As the elephants travel the world, they will tell the story of Asia’s wild elephants and the indigenous communities living alongside them, where people and elephants coexist in the densest populations in the world.
Under the creative direction of The CoExistence Collective, part of The Real Elephant Collective, a community of 200 indigenous artisans have spent the past six years recreating every elephant they live alongside in Tamil Nadu, South India, in intricately detailed sculptural form. The material they are made from, Lantana camara, is toxic invasive weed which pushes animals from their habitats. The use of lantana to create the sculptures helps clear it from the forests.
A collaboration between indigenous artisans, contemporary artists, and cultural institutions, it will raise millions of dollars to power human-wildlife coexistence projects through partnerships with over 20 conservation NGOs in the USA and around the world.
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Out of the Shadows: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Through April 27, 2025Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso, Warhol—while many of the works in this show may be small in size, they are created by some of the biggest names in the canon of art history.
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Tony Foster: Watercolour Diaries from the Green River
Through May 4, 2025Artist Tony Foster became fascinated with the 50-million-year-old Green River fossilized fish when he first saw them in 1985. It was from these small special objects that he comprised the idea to make a group of artworks about the Green River. He began his project in 2018, creating a major painting of Steamboat Rock and the horseshoe bend from his vantage point up a 400 foot cliff. In the summer of 2019 he took a rafting trip from the Gates of Lodore to Split Rock, creating five smaller paintings en route. From these initial works he created this exhibition about, in Foster’s words: “this magnificent river.”
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