Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works

Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works argues that Indigenous designers have long been denied authorship, with Native life reduced to stereotypes that serve colonial myths. It traces how graphic design has often spoken about Indigenous peoples rather than with them, producing harmful misrepresentation. Spanning nearly two centuries and over 60 tribes and nations, the show foregrounds Native graphic art as inventive, subversive work shaped through survival and resistance.