For the tenth Renwick Invitational, highlighting mid-career and emerging makers, six Indigenous artists reflect on tradition while pushing the boundaries of their crafts. Th e exhibition includes glass artist and basket weaver Joe Feddersen’s visuals of urban environments; Lily Hope’s and Ursala Hudson’s weavings influenced by spirituality and graphic design; Erica Lord’s multimedia work on cultural identity; Geo Neptune’s basketry; and Maggie Thompson’s textile work involving 3D printing and photography. americanart.si.edu

Buoyantly hued and accented with the iconography of her hometown, Los Angeles, Lauren Halsey’s art has garnered attention in recent years for its flair and maximalist spirit. Now she takes on one of her biggest venues yet with an architectural structure called The Eastside of South Central Los Angeles Hieroglyph Prototype Architecture (I) on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visitors will be able to explore the space adorned with imagery borrowed from sources as diverse as 1960s utopian architecture, graffiti tagging, and ancient Egypt. metmuseum.org

EJ Hill, an artist known for his physically exhausting durational performances, is inviting visitors to be the star of his debut museum solo show with their own thrilling challenge. Emerging in a blue cart from behind a velvet curtain, a solitary rider plummets over the bubblegum-pink tracks of a roller coaster before ending on a stage. Embedded in the exhilarating installation is a meditation on the history of segregation in American amusement parks and how social inequities can be confronted with joy. massmoca.org

In parks, along hiking trails, outside community centers, and in the zoo, favorites from the Gilcrease are being shared while the museum is closed for a reconstruction. Three artworks were selected through a public vote with the chosen pieces reproduced for display at thirty-one local sites for three months. Th e initiative launched in the fall with Pop Chalee’s Forest Scene in which blue deer bound through an otherworldly forest. Each selection is accompanied by workshops, events, and digital content, like augmented reality, for an in-depth examination of the art. gilcrease.org

Simone Leigh’s transformation of the US Pavilion into an African palace was among the most critically acclaimed presentations of the 2022 Venice Biennale, and now Stateside viewers can catch many of its pieces in the artist’s first museum survey. Using eclectic materials like bronze, ceramic, terracotta, video, and installation—often at staggering scales—Leigh considers gender and race, centered on Black womanhood. Th e exhibition spans two decades of her career, in which she has reshaped history and culture into potent forms. icaboston.org

Th is is billed as the first museum show to look at the relationship between European art making and ecology between the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Among some fifty works on display are illuminated books, sculptures, and textiles, with the natural resources employed in their creation, like stone, metal, and wood, reflecting a large-scale extraction of materials. While nature was a source of medieval inspiration, it was also irreparably transformed in this burgeoning era of forestry, mining, farming, and other industries. pulitzerarts.org