10AM - 4PM
Free
2025 Graham & Sally Lusk Lecture with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger
Free for Joslyn members; $15 for general public (includes admission to the program and exhibition); advance registration required; walk-ins accepted as space allows. Register here.
Join us for a conversation with the artist Cannupa Hanska Luger, held on the opening day of Dripping Earth: Cannupa Hanska Luger. With this ambitious and immersive exhibition, Luger draws inspiration from his ancestral connection to the Northern Plains in newly created ceramics, video projections, prints, and monumental sculpture. The artist’s playful and innovative approach invites visitors to envision a future where land, identity, and culture are reclaimed and transformed. Luger will be joined in conversation by exhibition co-curators—Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art and Annika K. Johnson, PhD, Stacy and Bruce Simon Curator of Native American Art. The program will begin with a customary welcome by the artist’s mother, Kathy Elkwoman Whitman.
About the Graham & Sally Lusk Lecture series
Established in 2015, the series presents distinguished speakers—acclaimed artists, scholars, and visionary thinkers in the field of art and creativity—who engage and inspire audiences wishing to better understand and appreciate art from around the world and throughout time. Created through an estate gift from Graham Lusk, PhD, the series honors both Graham and Sally’s commitment to The Joslyn. Esteemed lecturers have included Craig Dykers, Snøhetta founder and architect of The Joslyn’s expansion; Patricia Marroquin Norby, Associate Curator of Native American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christopher Knight, art critic, Los Angeles Times; Eleanor Harvey, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum; and others.
Luger in his studio with Nuxbaagaʔihdia: To Go Forth, 2024–25, from the series Future Ancestral Technologies, repurposed afghan blanket, industrial wool remnants, and yarn, in progress for Dripping Earth: Cannupa Hanska Luger. Photograph by Shayla Blatchford (Diné), 2025