Author: FAAM Staff

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…

Rezidency Application Oglala Lakota College Artist-in-Residence Spring 2021 Session Application Deadline: February 26, 2021 Applications will be reviewed and awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis. Contact Information email: oaye {at} olc.edu phone: (605) 455-6093 Overview The mission of the Oglala Lakota College OÁYE program is to support a Lakota arts continuum through artist residencies and cultural mentorships at Oglala Lakota College (OLC). Description The OÁYE – Rezidency is a decentralized Artist-In-Residence program at OLC, open to Master Artists and Cultural Bearers. This program offers a paid stipend, modest materials support, and opportunities to engage with OLC and Oglala Lakota communities.…

Interview and translation by Vivian Zavataro Eu sou meus ancestrais e eles são eu. Eu estou neles e eles sempre estão comigo, pois vivem dentro de mim. Eu sou o povo antigo e o povo antigo sou eu. Eu já vivi neles e eles hoje vivem dentro de mim. I am my ancestors and they are me. I am inside them and they are always with me, as they live inside me. I am the ancient people and the ancient people are me. I have lived in them and today they live in me. —Thiago Cóstackz Potiguara means “shrimp eater.”…

The Indigenous Identity Act (IIA) will protect Indigenous identity across all sectors of Canadian society, including the film and television industries.  The case of Canadian actor and filmmaker Michelle Latimer, who claimed—falsely—that she was of Indigenous descent, has highlighted the unscrupulous practice of “Indigenous identity theft,” which many non-Native people use to benefit themselves at the expense of Indigenous Canadians. Tamara Bell, a veteran of Canadian film and television and a member of the Haida Nation, Raven Clan, is one of many Indigenous Canadians who seek to end this unfortunate and destructive practice. Bell is proposing a bill that protects…

By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD In 1947 the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) purchased 44 sketches by 19th-century German-American artist Charles Ferdinand Wimar, as well as 31 photographs, from St. Louis resident Claire Becker. Six of the photographs, portraits of Diné individuals, are especially rare. The photographer was Valentin Wolfenstein, a Swedish-American who visited Bosque Redondo Reservation. The US Army imprisoned approximately 10,000 Diné and Apache people at this camp in New Mexico between 1863 and 1868. Settler-colonial photographers visiting Bosque Redondo typically posed their subjects against painted backdrops and often with an ornately carved wooden chair: tropes that had…

January 28–July 18, 2021 IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM The long-anticipated retrospective of Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw), painter, printmaker, and mixed-media artist, opened at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts on January 28 and will remain on view until July 18, 2021. Lomahaftewa was one of the first waves of students at the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts founded in 1962. Along with Kevin Red Star (Cross), Earl Biss (Crow), Bill Prokopiof (Unangax̂), and T. C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo), Lomahaftewa entered the San Francisco Art Institute but was the only one of…

Issue No. 28, Fall 2020 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 Paragons of the Virtual: 2020 SWAIA Virtual Indian Market Winners by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 16–22 Prairie Dog Glass: The Rise of Southwest Native Glass Art by Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi), 23–29 BACA 2020—Contemporary Native Art Biennial/Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone, Fifth Edition: Honouring Kinship by Lori Beavis, PhD (Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe), 30–35 Ancient Teotihuacán: A Painted City…