# Exhibit "Boundless" (Amherst College) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **August 29 - January 7, 2024** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Amherst College, Mead Art Museum (on Campus), 220 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002** *Boundless* is a nearly museum-wide exhibition that features work by Native American writers and artists, grounded in but not contained to the Northeast. *Boundless* takes shape like water, moving across generations and geographies, and expanding conversations about kinship, presence, resistance, and history through its flow. The exhibition never chooses one path, but moves in multiple directions and broadens as it goes. A wide range of materials from Amherst College’s Collection of Native American Literature and the Mead form the core of the exhibition, and are joined by key works on loan from artists and other institutional and private collections. The importance of place—including not only land, but water—is featured in *Boundless.* Water actively names the original peoples of what we now call southern New England. For example, Nipmuc means People of the Freshwater, while the Niantic are People of the Long-Necked Waters because their lands are near a bay; these names are at once a location and the name of its people. Each tribal name is filled with an image, a place, a relationship, and a story referenced in the works of *Boundless*. Objects in the exhibition span from the present back to the eighteenth century, and range from paintings to sculpture, video, historical texts, basketry, cookbooks, and more. As well, some objects by non-Native artists provide contrast and context, and are themselves recontextualized. More information: See also:- [ Exhibit ](/event-categories/exhibit) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/1751321/event-feed.ics) Copy link link