Forms of Exchange

Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection

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Acknowledgments

The works in this exhibition are selected highlights from Edward J. Guarino's extensive and wide-ranging collection. Mr. Guarino generously agreed to share them with the Vassar community and facilitated the realization of this project in many other ways. Elizabeth Bell, Alison Boyd, Allison Cannarsa, Terrance D'Ambrosio, Jennifer Dixon, Aiza Keesey, Holly Mendenhall, Katherine Moran, Eleanore Neumann, Brittany Prieto, Caitlin Sweeney, and Monica Valenzuela — students in a seminar at Vassar College, "The Politics of Display: Exhibiting Native American Art" — wrote the wall labels and helped install the objects. Ford Scholar Christina Lawrence spent innumerable hours laying the groundwork for this project. The website was created by a student employee of the Vassar College Media Cloisters, Alex Brey, with help from Anna Henningsgaard.

This project benefited from the advice and support of colleagues in the Art Department and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, especially Bruce Bundock, Karen Casey Hines, Mary-Kay Lombino, James Mundy and Joann Potter. Bruce Bernstein, Elaine Blechman, Melanie Evtushenko, Susan Folwell, Charles King, Samuel Thomas, and Douglas Winblad made invaluable contributions. The Agnes Rindge Claflin Memorial Fund, established by the Friends of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and administered by the Art Department, underwrote the exhibition and its publication.

Karen Lucic, Professor and Guest Curator, with the assistance of Christina Lawrence, '06