Epcot installing gallery honoring American Indians

Change is on the way to a Walt Disney World art exhibit at Epcot’s American Adventure.

“Creating Tradition: Innovation and Change in American Indian Art” will be moving into the American Heritage Gallery sometime this summer, according to a post on the official Disney Parks Blog. It will be a collaboration of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture of Santa Fe, N.M., and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Featured artists of the exhibition, located on the ground floor of the American Adventure building, will be fashion designer Loren Aragon, doll maker Glenda McKay and Juanita Growing Thunder from the Growing Thunder family of Montana. The exhibition will feature interactive elements in which artists share their creative processes and the inspirations behind their works, the blog item says.

Currently in that gallery space is “Re-Discovering America: Family Treasures from the Kinsey Collection,” which spotlights art, books, artifacts and documents related to African-American history. That exhibit, on loan from philanthropists (and Florida natives) Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, was installed at Epcot in March of 2013.

Epcot already has unveiled changes for art galleries at its Mexico and Norway pavilions on the other side of World Showcase. The American Adventure attraction recently reopened with updates to its audio and sounds systems and a new tribute section in its filmed presentation.