Marcus Dunn: Other Youth

A member of the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina, artist Marcus Dunn (SCAD M.F.A., painting, 2017) explores his Native American cultural heritage through historic representation of Native life. "Other Youth" presents the artist's recent large-scale works that examine the oppression of Native Americans in boarding schools in the late 19th century. These schools aimed to assimilate Native American children into white society through the suppression and annihilation of their culture. In this series of works, Dunn reinterprets archival photos sourced from the Library of Congress, employing his signature style of loose, confident layers of translucent brushwork.