Labor Art of the Week: Replica of a Chip
Chris Garlock | Published on 7/29/2024
Replica of a Chip, Marilou Schultz (Navajo/Diné)
On view through Sunday, July 28 at the “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction” exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (East Building).
In 1994 Intel commissioned Schultz, a Native American weaver, to make a blanket featuring their Pentium microprocessor. Intel aligned the expertise of skilled textile workers with the dexterity of the Indigenous female workforce hired to assemble circuit boards in a factory newly constructed on Navajo/Diné land. The exhibition includes a section on Labor, and several worker-focused short films.