Julie Buffalohead: Let the Show Begin - National Museum of the American Indian Date: 10/20/12 through 04/28/13 Ages: All Address: 1 Bowling Green - 212-514-3700 New York, NY 10004 www.americanindian.si.edu Description: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca) uses the iconography of childhood to explore deeper themes of storytelling, motherhood, and identity in this exhibition of her recent paintings. Soft and cuddly toy animals come to life in her work, but this sweet surface disguises the less pretty realities of parenting such as pain and worry. Buffalohead also uses these characters to attack stereotypes about Native people, exposing their artificiality by staging them as a child's game.