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New Installation of American Indian Art at JCCC

Kenneth Williams (American Indian, Seneca/Arapaho) ?Strength to Overcome? (mirror bag - image of Runs Medicine, Arapaho), 2009 Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art ? JCCC
Kenneth Williams (American Indian, Seneca/Arapaho) ?Strength to Overcome? (mirror bag - image of Runs Medicine, Arapaho), 2009 Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art ? JCCC

In November 2009, two installations of American Indian Art opened in the Kansas City metropolitan area: at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and on the campus of Johnson County Community College. By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, MO – Across the campus of Johnson County Community College, there are 450 works of art on display. This includes 50 works of American Indian art from the Pacific Northwest to the Southwest and Plains now in a permanent installation in the Regnier Center, adjacent to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

"Collection Focus: Contemporary American Indian Art" in the Regnier Center, JCCC. Collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art - JCCC (There are 900 works of art in the permanent collection.)

For a map of the JCCC campus, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS, check here.

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