{"id":7087,"date":"2022-03-28T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:37:03","slug":"illustrating-indigenous-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/03\/28\/illustrating-indigenous-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrating \u2018Indigenous Brilliance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Erb-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erb-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Joseph Erb with us son in front of the artwork he created.\" class=\"wp-image-7075\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Erb with his son, \u13a0\u13b9\u13f1 (Amayi) Lewis-Erb in front of the work. Amayi inspired one of the images in the piece (photo courtesy of Joseph Erb).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I recently ran into Joseph Erb, an assistant professor in the School of Visual Studies, on Francis Quadrangle. I had not seen him in person due to the pandemic. We connected about family and work and he shared his art project that is featured in the new First Americans Museum.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The artwork<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> titled \u201cIndigenous Brilliance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d is a digital illustration on copper panels spanning two stories. It references historical events as well as Native contributions in agriculture, astronomy and civil societies. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The piece is a permanent installation at the First Americans Museum, one of the largest Indigenous museums in the United States.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I can\u2019t wait to visit Oklahoma City to see the artwork in person.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran into Joseph Erb, an assistant professor in the School of Visual Studies, on Francis Quadrangle. I had not seen him in person due to the pandemic. We connected about family and work and he shared his art project that is featured in the new First Americans Museum.&nbsp; The artwork, titled \u201cIndigenous Brilliance,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}