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    Home»Archives»2017»Issue No. 14, Spring 2017

    Issue No. 14, Spring 2017

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    By FAAM Staff on June 19, 2017 2017, Archives

    Issue No. 14, Spring 2017

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    Features

    • Blanketing the Plains: Hanoolchaadi in Indian Country, Roshii Montano (Diné) and Jill Ahlberg Yohe, PhD, 20–25
    • Intersections of Indigeneity, Feminism, and Art, Jean Merz-Edwards, 26–31
    • German Silver Jewelry of the Southern Plains Indians, Denise Neil (Delaware Tribe/Cherokee Nation), 32–37
    • In Search of Hózhó: Notes on Performance and Performance Art, Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 38–43

    Artist Profiles

    • Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag Wampum Artist and Weaver), Karen Kramer, 46–51
    • Terrol Dew Johnson: Tohono O’odham Basket Weaver and Sculptor, America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 52–57
    • Sonya Kelliher-Combs: Iñupiaq/Athabascan Interdisciplinary Artist, David Winfield Norman, 58–63
    • Clint McKay: Dry Creek Pomo/Wappo/Wintun Basket Weaver and Jeweler, Bryn Barabas Potter, 64–69

    Departments

    • Seven Directions | Nina Sanders (Apsáalooke), 14–15
    • Exploring Native Design | Decontie and Brown: Penobscot Jewelry and Fashion Designers, by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 16–18
    • Art + Lit | Leanne Simpson: Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe Writer, Musician, & Educator, by Matthew Ryan Smith, 82–83
    • Poem: i am graffiti, by Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe), 84
    • Kelly Greene (Mohawk/Oneida), 84 
    • Spotlight | Gate of the Sun, Tiwanaku, by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 90–91

    In Memoriam

    • David Moses Bridges (Passamaquoddy, 1962–2017), David Shultz, 86
    • Barry Coffin (Citizen Potawatomi/Muscogee, 1947–2016), America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 87
    • Tim Pitsuilak (Inuk, 1967–2016), America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 87
    • Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit, 1956–2016), Indian Rael Young, 88
    • Teri Rofkar (Tlingit, 1956–2016), Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, Phd (Alutiiq), 89

    Reviews and Report

    Exhibition Reviews

    • Homer, AK | Decolonizing Alaska, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Nadia Jackinsky, PhD (Alutiiq), 70–71
    • Los Angeles | California Continued, Autry Museum of the American West, Bryn Barabas Potter, 72
    • Nantes, France, and Seattle | You Are On Indigenous Land / in.dig.e.nize, Sacred Circle Gallery, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, and CinéAlter’Natif, Aurélie Journée, xx–74
    • St. Petersburg, FL | The Far North: Inuit Prints and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent), 74–75
    • Santa Fe | Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Michelle Lanteri, xx–76
    • Stillwater | From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Chelsea Herr (Choctaw Nation), 77

    Book Review

    • Mary Wheelwright: Her Book, Leatrice A. Armstrong (Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 2017), review by Janet Catherine Berlo, PhD, 78–79

    Report

    • Panama City | Festival de Arte Dule, Peter Szok, PhD, 80–81

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