Author: FAAM Staff

By Cady de la Cruz (Andean-American) A 19-year-old from Alexandria, Virginia, Frances Montevilla is a second-year student at the University of Virginia (UVA). She is planning on majoring in American studies with a minor in Indigenous studies. This summer, she is interning for First American Art Magazine through UVA’s Mellon Indigenous Arts Program. Frances is a bright mind with many perspectives to contribute to UVA, FAAM, and the many other spaces she will take part in in the professional future that stretches before her. CDLC: What kind of work do you feel called to be doing, both currently and in…

Saskatoon, SK – In the summer of 2019, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Mary Anne Barkhouse made the trip from Minden, Ontario, to the Wanuskewin Heritage Park to visit the Opimihaw Valley. She walked the trails with Dr. Ernie Walker, who was instrumental in founding the park and the lead archaeologist during the longest-running research dig in Canada in the valley. They talked with staff about all the components of Wanuskewin that make the site so special. And there are many things that make Wanuskewin special. With archaeological evidence dating back at least 6,400 years, Wanuskewin has been recognized as a gathering place…

Rutherford Falls connects the mainstream public to Indian Country By Gracelynn Growingthunder (Nakoda/Kiowa), age 11 The Peacock TV sitcom Rutherford Falls, produced by Sierra Teller Ornelas (Navajo), Ed Helms, and Michael Schur, has been approved for a second season! The first season is set in a fictional small town with locals who are passionate about their history, while others don’t care. The fictional Minishonka Nation with their Running Thunder Casino employs most of the townsfolk. While the population of the town is not interested in maintaining its bothersome statue of Lawrence Rutherford, one energetic museum director Nathan “Nate” Rutherford (played…

Issue No. 30, Spring 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 Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts by Nanette Kelley (Osage Nation/Cherokee Nation), 20–25 Evolving States: Michael Elizondo Jr. and the Reemergence of the Bacone College School of Indian Art by Cedar Marie (Standing Rock Lakota descent), 26–31 Allan Houser and His Sons: A Story of Kinship and Three Different Artistic Statements by Jeanine Belgodere, 32–37 The Neo-Woodland Movement…

Pathways Native Arts Festival Aat Buffalo Thunder Resort, August 20–22 Santa Fe, NM – The Pueblo of Pojoaque’s Poeh Cultural Center, with the support from the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, will launch Pathways Native Arts Festival from August 20 through 22, 2021, providing a needed venue for up to 500 Native American artists. Dates and hours of the market/festival will be: Friday, August 20: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday, August 21: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Sunday, August 22: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at…

Three-part discussion series to accompany two outdoor art interventions Boston, MA – From May to September, the MFA Boston is presenting Garden for Boston, two outdoor installations on the green spaces of the museum’s main entrance by Roxbury-based artist Ekua Holmes and artist/marine biologist Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag). In Raven Reshapes Boston: A Native Corn Garden at the MFA, James-Perry will use Indigenous planting techniques to transform the grass around the Cyrus Dallin sculpture, which represents an invented Native man, into a field of corn and other plants surrounded by shells. “It has to do with being a woman from…

Exhibition debuts in the newly opened Great Basin Native Artists Gallery Carson City, NV — Contemporary and historical Indigenous artists exhibit an exceptional array of beadwork at the new Great Basin Native Artists Gallery inside the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum (SISCCM) in Carson City, Nevada. Artists include Stewart alumni from the 1920s to the present and members of the Great Basin Native Artists from the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes. Some of the works displayed in the exhibit come from the SISCCM’s permanent collection, donated pieces from the Native community, and ephemera including press clipping Indigenous Great…

Issue No. 29, Winter 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 Dolls of the North: Depicting a Way of Life by Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent), 16–23 Metamorphoses in Zuni Fetish Carving: Three Artists Expand an Indigenous Art Form by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 24–31 Commodity and Heritage: Works on Paper by Myra Kukiiyaut by Katharine W. Fernstrom, PhD, 32–37 Other Places, Outer Spaces: Skawennati’s Virtual Futurism by Matthew…

By Audrey Rubinstein Santa Fe, NM — The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the nonprofit organization that produces the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, is pleased to announce that an in-person and ticketed Santa Fe Indian Market will be held on Saturday, August 21, and Sunday, August 22, 2021. “After last year’s pivot and presentation of a virtual Indian Market, we are excited to welcome visitors and artists back to our beloved, 99-year-old event. We will remain flexible and creative in our planning to align with COVID-safe practices in the state, but we are confident that we will produce…

Indian Arts and Craft Board Explains Legalities of Collecting This Unique Alaska Native Art The US Department of the Interior’s Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB), announces a new consumer education brochure, Sustainable Tradition: The Beauty of the Northern Sea Otter In Alaska Native Art, to promote the creative work of Alaska Native artists and artisans who incorporate sea otter in their work. The publication is produced in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Marine Mammals Management Office. The brochure highlights the inherent cultural importance, beauty, and sustainability of these traditions. It also clarifies that, under the Marine…