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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…

Now that 2020 is safely behind us, we can reflect back on the year that was defined by a global pandemic, devastating fires and storms, and racial tensions. Amid all of the sorrow and challenges, however, Native artists and arts organizations met the challenges of the year head-on, giving us several shining moments to celebrate as we look back. 1. Virtual Pivot As the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit in mid-March, and art event after event was canceled and museums and galleries shuttered, artists and organizations quickly developed new means of connecting online. Racing Magpie in Rapid City hosted…

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) announced the virtual opening of Bring Her Home: Sacred Womxn of Resistance. This year’s exhibition is the third installment of the Bring Her Home exhibition series organized by All My Relations Art gallery and will be exhibited from December 2020 – February 2021. All My Relations Arts is an initiative of NACDI, who organized this third exhibition of this series in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, and Minnesota Indian Sexual Assault Coalition curated by Reyna Hernandez (Ihanktonwan Dakota). “My hope for this exhibit is to highlight empowered work…

Northern Paiute Painter and Draftsman Interview by Melissa Melero-Moose (Northern Paiute/Modoc) This interview appeared in FAAM No. 2, Spring 2014 PYRAMID LAKE, 40 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada, is home to the ancient cui-ui fish, the oldest reliably dated petroglyphs in North America, and the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe. Pyramid Lake is also home to its very own Ben Aleck, a Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal member and a lifelong artist. Proficient in both drawing and painting, Ben creates works inspired by the beautiful landscape of his home and his people, the Paiutes of Northern Nevada. Ben attended the California College…

Issue No. 27, Summer 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 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…