A stunning new exhibition of Anishinaabe art recently opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts features a strong showing of Minnesota-based painters, sculptors, designers and more. “Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation” is the DIA’s first major Native American exhibition in more than three decades, featuring 90 works by more than 60 artists from the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada.

The exhibition celebrates the contemporary visions and creativity of Native artists from tribes that call themselves Anishinaabe, meaning “original people,” including Ojibwe (Chippewa) — who have seven tribes based in Minnesota and five in Michigan — as well as the Ottawa (Odawa) and Potawatomi (Pottawatomi) people.

Denene De Quintal, the DIA’s assistant curator of Native American Art, said th

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