Wendy Red Star: Delegation

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Aperture

Published:16th Jun '22

£50.00

Available to order, but very limited on stock - if we have issues obtaining a copy, we will let you know.

Wendy Red Star: Delegation cover

Native America Exhibition Tour:

  • Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ / Fall 2022
  • Milwaukee Art Museum / Spring 2023
  • USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL / Summer 2023
  • Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas, Austin, TX / Spring 2024

    Events:
  • Aperture PhotoBook Club June Event
  • Virtual or in-person conversation co-hosted with a museum/institution. Possible partners include the Joslyn Art Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation, the Denver Art Museum, or the Portland Museum of Art
  • Opening Reception and book signing at Sargent’s Daughter gallery
  • Virtual conversation hosted by Birchbark Books
  • Book signing at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, OR

    Press Plan:
  • Anticipate book release with an interview in a local Oregonian media
  • Lead with a NYT or T Magazine piece profiling the artist in Art & Leisure covering both the book and her show at Sargent Daughters
  • Pursue national coverage with The Nation, Washington Post, the Atlantic and local with The Oregonian, The Portland Observes, Portland Monthly
  • Pitch reviews of the book at NYT Book Review, Bookforum, NYRB, and Brooklyn Rail
  • Pursue coverage with radio shows at NPR (Fresh Air, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Code Switch)

    Influencers/Affiliates:
    For each book, we’re going to tackle a series of influencers or affiliate profiles to share the news online:
  • Variable West
  • Oregon Contemporary
  • Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts
  • IllumiNative
  • Emerson Collective

    Digital:
  • Instagram takeover with captions written by Wendy and excerpted from the text
  • Pursue online editorial with text from volume on aperture.org
  • Create visual asset kit to share with external people and partners
  • Pursue an editorial newsletter themed with articles on Native American artists/works (tied to either the book launch or ahead of key programming)
  • Potentially pull clips from events into video for social
  • To be included in seasonal paid social campaign in order to drive product awareness and sales

    • Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsáalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.

    Red Star centers Native American life and material culture through imaginative self-portraiture, vivid collages, archival interventions, and site-specific installations. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, she constantly questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation. Including a dynamic array of Red Star’s lens-based works from 2006 to the present, and a range of essays, stories, and poems, Delegation is a spirited testament to an influential artist’s singular vision.

    Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts

    • Winner of Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow.
    • Winner of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2017
    • Winner of Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.

    ISBN: 9781597115193

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 1406g

    224 pages