See photos of American Indian dancers and tribal elders by acclaimed Oklahoma City photographer and writer M.J. Alexander today at the Red Earth Museum, 2100 NE 52.

The photographic exhibition "Indian Territory: Portraits of 21st Century Native American Dancers and I.T. Born Tribal Elders" is on view at the museum through Oct. 31, if you can't make it today. It features a series of 34 images captured by Alexander, who also includes fascinating and concise interviews of the photo subjects.

Alexander will be the featured speaker during a "Conversation with the Artist" and reception scheduled at 6 p.m. Oct. 1 at the museum. The event will free and open to the public.

Subjects for Alexander's photographs range in age from 3 to 105 years, and the exhibit features numerous images of American Indian dancers in full tribal regalia taken during the annual Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival in downtown Oklahoma City. The images are printed on varied media, including metallic sheets, sheer scrims, hanging canvases and photographic paper. Artifacts from the Red Earth Museum's permanent collection accompany the photographic images.

The Indian Territory-born tribal elders featured in the exhibit are included in the book "Salt of the Red Earth: A Century of Wit and Wisdom from Oklahoma's Elders," published in 2007 by the Oklahoma Heritage Association.

Alexander is a writer and photographer whose images have been published worldwide. Her work has been showcased at museums throughout the country, including the Pleiades Gallery of New York City and New Mexico's Hubbard Museum of the American West. She has degrees from Vassar College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in addition to teaching news writing at New York University and serving as chairwoman of the journalism department at Saint Michael's College in Vermont.

She is a citizen of both Canada and the United States and makes her home in Oklahoma City with with her husband and two children.

The Red Earth Museum is open every day, except Thanksgiving and Christmas, inside Science Museum Oklahoma.

For more information, go to www.redearth.org.

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