This exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian explores the Native skateboard movement. The exhibit has rare photographs and films of Native skaters and skatedecks with graphics like medicine wheels and eagle feathers, etc. And there's even a skateboard company, Jim Murphy's Wounded Knee Skateboards, in Queens own by Jim Murphy of Lenni Lenape descent.
The museum is pretty cool as it's in this big 'ole fancy building and of course there are other exhibits as well. HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor and A Song for the Horse Nation which presents the influence of horses on American Indian tribes as well as pieces from the museum's collection to inagurate the new Diker Pavillion for Native Arts and Culture. And since this is a Smithsonian, it's free! (My favorite kind of museum!) Check it out this weekend when you're down in Battery Park enjoying the rays!
National Museum of the American Indian
George Gustav Hey Center
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green
4/5 to Bowling Green
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