Summer 2024 | National Endowment for the Humanities

Ursala Hudson

Photo caption

Ursala Hudson is one of many Native artists drawing upon their cultural heritage to create vibrant, contemporary work.

—Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), We Are the Ocean, 2021. National Museum of the American Indian. Photographed by Kahlil Hudson.

Summer 2024

Volume 45, Issue 3

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