Author: FAAM Staff

Episode 1. Tracy Discusses Regalia First American Art Magazine and the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts are pleased to partner in producing Collections Spotlight, an interactive, online discussion. Diverse scholars and Native artists will select artworks from the Coe’s collection to interpret and discuss. The virtual Zoom format will bring together people from diverse regions, and the artist can take audience questions at the end. The first episode features Tracy Newkumet Burrow (Caddo/Delaware), a regalia-maker and textile artist based in Oklahoma City. She will discuss the symbolism and techniques embedded in a Caddo dush-toh (a women’s hourglass-shaped hair…

Issue No. 33, Winter 2022 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations (scroll to find yours) US, New Mexico $9.74 USD US, other than NM $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $15.92 USD Features Reaching a Sustainable Plateau: The Indigenous Artists of the Plateau and Their Reflections on the Environment by Nanette Kelley (Osage Nation/Cherokee Nation), 22–29 A Nation Tells Its Own Story: The Choctaw Cultural Center by Vicki Monks (Chickasaw), 30–34 Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual: Seventy-Five Years of Keeping Culture by Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent)36–43…

Many beings and cultural items are deemed by Native American tribes to be too sacred for public viewing. Even reproductions of these items can carry the power of the original. How does one know what these items are and how does one start to learn protocols about Sacred Beings and items? What should museums not display and Native artists not represent? How does one respectfully navigate these issues when different parties share conflicting information? Five Indigenous leaders share their perspectives. Panelists Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee) Richard W. Hill Sr. (Tuscarora Nation at Grand River, Beaver clan) Tina Kuckkahn (Lac…

Arthur Holmes Jr. (Hopi) won the Best of Show at the 64th annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market for his exquisite katsina carving in cottonwood root. While entries were fewer this year, the quality and diversity of the artworks — coming from local Navajo and Hopi tribes and from across the continent in Maine and Alaska — were stunning. Classification winners are as follows. Click on image to enlarge. Classification Winners I. Jewelry and Lapidary Best of Classification: Lyndon Tsosie (Navajo), Origin of Life Through Light II. Pottery Best of Classification: Alvina Yepa (Jemez Pueblo), Hummingbird Water Jar III. Paintings,…

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma are hosting their annual Mellon Foundation Lecture and Symposium in Native American Art. On Friday evening, scholar, artist, and curator Sherry Farrell Racette (Métis, Timiskaming First Nation) will speak on new perspectives in Native American art history. Saturday, emerging scholars will present papers on their research in Native American art history. Free and open to the public. What: Sherry Farrell Racette Lecture When: Friday, March 4, 6:00 pm Where: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, auditorium, 555 Elm Avenue, Norman, OK | map…

Issue No. 32, Fall 2021 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations US, New Mexico $9.74 USD US, other than NM $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $15.92 USD Features Dawning of a New Era: First Americans Museum Opens in Oklahoma City by Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), Photography by Ann Sherman, 18–25 Patchwork: Piecing It Together by Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent), 26–33 The Wabanaki Canoe and the Science of Perfection by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 34–41 Connections and Belonging in Stone Oil Lamps by Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD…

By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) When sending a press release out, assume that whoever will receive it is underpaid, overworked, and swamped by similar emails. Clarity and brevity will get your press release read. It doesn’t matter how newsworthy your topic is, if your press release is a confusing wall of text, it will get deleted. Make your topic obvious. Have spaces between paragraph. Have images attached or available via online folder. What is the goal of your press release? Pick one primary goal. Do you want a listing on a calendar? If so, you might see if the publication/website…

An open letter by Lucinda Turner For the last several years, thousands of people, both Indigenous artists and settler allies, have collaborated to safeguard Northwest Coast (NWC) Indigenous art from appropriation and theft. While we have seen some successes, Canada needs to step up and support these efforts, so that this serious issue can be addressed on a larger scale. We believe that it is time for the Canadian government to introduce much-needed legislation and policies to uphold and protect Indigenous intellectual property and copyrights through stricter laws and enforcement, enabling Indigenous artists to support their families, communities, and cultural…

CHICAGO – The debut date of the groundbreaking renovation of the Field Museum’s Native North America Hall has been announced. The museum has also chosen its exhibition title reflecting a new approach to the relationship between Native American communities and museums, the Native land upon which museums were built, and the items in their collections. Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories will open to the public on May 20, 2022. The exhibition was curated by Alaka Wali, PhD, with the guidance of an advisory council of eleven Native American scholars and museum professionals. They worked in partnership with 125 collaborators…

Issue No. 31, Summer 2021 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations US, New Mexico $9.74 USD US, other than NM $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $15.92 USD Features Cochiti Mono Figures by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 25–29 Connecting New Pathways: Centering Native Public Art in Tulsa by Mason Whitehorn Powell (Osage), 30–35 The Last Great Indian Art Movement of the 20th Century: IAIA Painters of the 1960s by Alfred Young Man, PhD (Chippewa-Cree), 36–41 Jeff Kahm’s Geometric Vision by W. Jackson Rushing III, PhD, 42–45 Artist…