Storywork in Teresa Baker’s Time To Be Still

An artwork hanging on a wall. It takes roughly the shape of a house with a pointed roof. Its surface is bright yellow with fields of brown, red, and purple as well as various lines and outlines.

Teresa Baker (Mandan and Hidatsa), Time To Be Still, 2023. Acrylic, yarn, willow, and artificial sinew on AstroTurf. Yale University Art Gallery, The Mary Jane Taft Fund for Emerging Artists. © Teresa Baker  

Join Royce K. Young Wolf (Hiraacá, Nu’eta, and Sosore, ancestral Apsáalooke and Nʉmʉnʉʉ), the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Collections Manager of the Native North American Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum, for a Gallery Talk exploring storywork and layered meanings in Teresa Baker’s (Mandan and Hidatsa) abstract landscape painting Time To Be Still (2023). Young Wolf invites visitors to experience a deeper understanding of the intersections of materiality and contextual meaning in Baker’s artwork.  

Meet by the central column in the Gallery lobby. Space is limited.