Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer features over sixty recently conserved watercolors, drawn entirely from Joslyn’s renowned Maximilian-Bodmer collection. This includes portraits of individuals from the Omaha, Ponca, Yankton, Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, and Blackfoot nations, among the many encountered by the travelers. Indigenous knowledge bearers, artists, and scholars from the nations that Bodmer and Maximilian visited have contributed texts and four short films for this exhibition that highlight the diverse histories, beliefs, and practices embodied in the portraits.     

NEW ENTRANCE! Visitors to Joslyn will now use a temporary, accessible entrance on the north side of the building as construction has begun on the new Rhonda and Howard Hawks Pavilion on the Museum's east side. Read on for more about the new entrance including the mural that greets visitors—a project by teen artists with Joslyn's Kent Bellows Mentoring Program.     

Joslyn Art Museum is proud to announce a new publication drawn from its permanent collection—Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer. The first book to focus on Bodmer as a portraitist, it provides new perspectives on Euro-American encounters with nineteenth-century Indigenous communities in the American West. Read on for details and purchase the book here.     

Joslyn is working to elevate and amplify perspectives that historically have been underrepresented in the galleries. With OMAHA SPEAKS, we look to broaden the conventional interpretation of objects in our permanent collection by introducing commentary from leaders in our community.