Issue No. 27, Summer 2020

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Features

• Native Art World Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  by various authors, 18–33
• Point of Contact: The Art of Quillwork Then and Now
  by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 34–39
• Returning Home: Comanche Homecoming at Sultan Park
  Photo essay by Ben Norberto III (Comanche)
  Text by Juanita Pahdopony (Comanche), 40–45
• SWAIA Selects Kim Peone to Be Executive Director: A New Chapter Begins for Both
  by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 46–47
• Opinion | The Indian-on-Indian Art Plague: Intertribal Misappropriation
  by Nanette Kelley (Osage/Cherokee Nations), 48–51

Artist Profiles

• Lena Snow Amason: Alutiiq Carver
  by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 54–59
• Jason Garcia: Santa Clara Pueblo Clay Artist and Printmaker
  by Michelle J. Lanteri, 60–65
• Marlowe Katoney: Navajo Textile Artist and Painter
  by Jill Ahlberg Yohe, PhD, 66–71
• Courtney M. Leonard: Shinnecock Ceramicist and Multimedia Artist
  by Jami Powell, PhD (Osage Nation), 72–77

Departments

• Recent Developments, 10–13
• Seven Directions | Anya Montiel, PhD (Mestiza/Tohono O’odham), 14–17
• Art+Literature | Joy Harjo: Mvskoke Poet, Musician, and Author
  by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 84–87
  Artwork by Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee/Citizen Potawatomi), 87
• Spotlight | Seal Vision: Shared Spirit
  by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 89-90
• Collections | Minneapolis Institute of Art
  by Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 90–93

Reviews

Art Exhibition Reviews

• Arcata, CA | Tiffany Adams: Ink and Skin and Bone, Goudi’ni Native American Arts Gallery, Humboldt State University
  Review by Nanette Kelley (Osage/Cherokee Nations), 78–79
• Phoenix | Maria Hupfield: Nine Years Towards the Sun, Heard Museum
  Review by Michelle J. Lanteri, 80–81

Book Review

• Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art by Katherine Nova McCleary, Leah Tamar Shrestinian, and Joseph Zordan (Yale University Art Gallery, 2019)
  Review by Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), 82–83

In Memoriam

• Rodslen Brown (Cherokee Nation, 1960–2020)
  by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 94
• David Shananaquet (Little Traverse Odawa, 1955–2020)
  by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 95