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The Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota (KENG) seeks support for a catalogue to accompany its forthcoming exhibition, “Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers.” The exhibition will feature work in a range of media by 27 Dakota and Ojibwe artists with historical or familial connections to the region (a full list of artists is provided in the proposal.) Curated by  Brenda J. Child (Ojibwe, Northrop Professor of American Studies) and Howard Oransky (Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery,)  “Dreaming Our Futures” will open at KENG before touring across the state of Minnesota in 2024, with stops at the Rochester Art Center, and the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The fully illustrated catalogue (University of Minnesota Press), edited by Child and Oransky, will include essays by Child, Christopher Pexa (Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota), Diane Wilson (Dakota), Mona Susan Power (Standing Rock Sioux), and Patricia Marroquin Norby (Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) The publication will also include artist biographies, and artist statements published in Dakota, Ojibwe, and English. Each year the AAP selectively funds publications associated with loan exhibitions that were declined in the loan exhibition competition; ‘Dreaming of our Futures ”is the latest among them.