Shelburne Museum announces major Native American initiative
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Shelburne Museum announces major Native American initiative
Artists formerly known (Alaska, Northwest Coast and Plateau), Carrying Basket, Basket, Berry Basket and Lidded Basket, late 19th or early 20th century. Collection of Shelburne Museum, gifts of Electra Havemeyer Webb & J. Watson Webb, Jr. 1947 17.1, 3 & 6 and 1973 13. Photography by Andy Duback.



SHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museum is undertaking a major initiative that includes stewardship of an important collection of Native American art and construction of a building and integrated landscape collaboratively designed to create a national resource for the study and care of Indigenous art. The initiative will reimagine the museum’s role in presenting American art and material culture, announced Thomas Denenberg, John Wilmerding Director and CEO of Shelburne Museum.

The Perry Center for Native American Art will be designed by internationally acclaimed Adjaye Associates and will be the 40th building on Shelburne Museum’s 45-acre campus. The Perry Center will house a significant collection of Native American art gathered by Anthony and Teressa Perry and gifted to the museum. When combined with the Indigenous art already stewarded by the museum, the collection will represent nearly 80 Tribes from coast to coast.

“Shelburne Museum has approached this project with an abiding awareness of the responsibility inherent in caring for a collection that represents living cultures. From the outset, partnerships with source communities have been a priority and focus of this initiative. To that end, the museum has worked to build relationships that will make the Perry Center for Native American Art a national resource for the study and care of Indigenous art that will reimagine the museum and its role in presenting American art and material culture,” Denenberg said.

The Perry Center for Native American Art is planned to be a 9,750-square-foot, highly sustainable pavilion designed to support the culturally appropriate interpretation and care of Indigenous material culture. Designed and realized through a rigorous process in partnership with Indigenous voices, the $12.6 million Perry Center will serve as a welcoming space for Tribal members and scholars to study and engage with the collection and will reimagine the museum experience for all visitors including the local community, schoolchildren and tourists.

“Our team is inspired by the potential of the Perry Center to not only enhance Shelburne Museum as a destination for education, but also to amplify and empower the Indigenous communities represented by the collection and to reconceptualize the role of a museum facility in the 21st century,” Adjaye Associates Founder and Principal David Adjaye said. “As the design architect for the new Perry Center, we intend to cultivate opportunities for transformation, storytelling and cross-cultural dialogue, ensuring the Perry Center contributes to the unique eclecticism and mission of Shelburne Museum.”

Rooted in Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb’s early interest in Indigenous art, the Native American Initiative represents the most significant addition in scope, content and importance to Shelburne Museum since the institution’s founding in 1947. The project has received early public and private grant funding support including from the Henry Luce Foundation, State of Vermont, National Endowment for the Arts, Institute of Museum and Library Services and National Endowment for the Humanities, which recently awarded the project a $750,000 Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant.

“We believe Shelburne is ideally suited for this initiative—not only is the site a traditional place of cultural exchange for Native people, Shelburne Museum is uniquely equipped to serve as a culturally competent steward of a nationally important collection,” said D. Scott Wise, chairman of the Shelburne Museum Board of Trustees.

Steps taken by the museum to ensure institutional cultural competency include:

•a National Advisory Committee made up of enrolled members of Native American Tribes, scholars, curators and culture bearers;

•an Exhibition Advisory Committee of source communicators on items in the collections;

•a cultural competency seminar funded by the National Endowment for the Arts;

•engagement with one of the premier Indigenous consultants to building projects in Canada;

•the addition of an Associate Curator of Native American Art funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Among those consulted was the leadership of the four bands of state-recognized Abenaki Tribe, including Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk - Abenaki Nation, who served on the National Advisory Committee and who praised the museum’s collaborations with Indigenous communities.

“The museum’s collaborative approach to stewardship of the Native American collection and construction of the Perry Center for Native American Art is commendable,” Stevens said. “Like the museum, we see this project as an opportunity to bring more people to Shelburne and the region from across the country and internationally to study, learn about and experience Native American art and material culture. We also see the Perry Center as an enriching environment that teaches Vermont’s schoolchildren in a way that reshapes assumptions about Indigenous life in America.”










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