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“Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse: Lifelong” at the Blanton Museum of Art is part of “In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships,” a larger project at the museum that looks at the relationships between three artist pairs: the Nanranjo Morse mother and daughter duo, Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi, and José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez. Nora and Eliza belong to a Tewa-speaking Pueblo community known as Kha’p’o in Northern New Mexico. Their generational ties to this community inform how they make their art and their lives — which are, arguably, one and the same. Nora identifies these connections as “the principle place of being Pueblo people.” The two have collaborated previously, for instance, on the installation “Seeking Life” (2019) in Redwood City, California, but “Lifelong” marks their first “immersive” collaborative effort, an effect made possible by the difference in scale and materials of each artist. To read the full review by Nancy Zastudil, visit t...

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