The centerpiece of Wendy Red Star’s exhibition at New Jersey’s Newark Museum, “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth,” is a sweat lodge. It’s not a ceremonial sweat lodge per se—that ...

Red Star, who lives and works in Portland, is one of 22 recipients of the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious “genius grant” that awards each recipient $800,000 over the course of five years.