Artist Talk: Mona Cliff

Cash Bar Opens 5:30 p.m. | Artist talk and Q&A 6–7:30 p.m.

Seating is first come, first served.

Join Lawrence, Kansas-based artist Mona Cliff (Hanook-gah-neeh/ Spottedcloud) to learn about her practice and celebrate her work in New Words: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition, on view this year at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., selected from a 2022 exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

About the Artist:

Multidisciplinary artist Mona Cliff (Hanook-gah-neeh/ Spottedcloud) is an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe (A'aninin/Nakota Nations) of Ft. Belknap, MT. In her work, she explores the subject of contemporary Indigenous identity and culture through her use of traditional Native crafting methods including beadwork and sewing applique.

Cliff has public artwork on view at the Kansas City Museum, the Kansas City Airport, and the Haskell Indian Nations University; and a forthcoming commission will be on view at the Autry Museum of American Art beginning in September 2024. Mona earned a B.F.A in Printmaking from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas.

In 2022, Cliff's work was featured in Kemper Museum's presentation of Women to Watch: A New World, a national series of juried exhibitions featuring local artists in different regions. Her work was selected from that exhibition for the culminating national exhibition which is on view at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Click here for information on how to get to the museum and where to find our free parking lots.

Image: Mona Cliff at the 2022 exhibition opening. Photo by Kenny Johnson.

Host or Publisher Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art