Author: FAAM Staff

By Michelle J. Lanteri During this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market (SFIM), Native artists propelled their artworks into the digital sphere. Two- and three-dimensional media transformed into digital photographs for two purposes—to represent artworks for sale on the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) website and to interact with audiences within NDN World, an online meeting place available to all SWAIA members. The Santa Fe Community Convention Center turned virtual within NDN World, where SWAIA artists, members, partners, and sponsors gathered for this year’s live events taking place between August 1 and 31, like the Virtual Awards Preview and Ceremony.…

Hello, my name is MaryAnn (Guoladdle-Davilla) Parker! I am from Anadarko, Oklahoma, but more specifically I grew up in Hog Creek just outside of Anadarko. I currently live in Oklahoma City with my husband Dallas and our girls. I graduated from Oklahoma City University with my bachelor of art degree in American history. I am the new circulations manager here at FAAM. I also work at the First Americans Museum as the curatorial administrative assistant. I have previously worked at the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic as a mentor. FAAM: You served as Kiowa Tribal Princess and Miss Indian Oklahoma City…

National Call for Video Dance Submissions for Denver Art Museum’s 31st Annual Friendship Powwow Museum to present powwow celebration in virtual format for the first time: The 31st Annual Denver Art Museum Friendship Powwow WHEN: Sept. 12, 2020, 11:00 a.m. WHERE: Streaming on the museum’s Facebook page and YouTube account Experience the vitality of the 31st annual Friendship Powwow on Sept. 12, 2020, one of the Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) longest-running events, now taking place virtually. Hosted in collaboration with members of the local Native community, we are excited to accept national video dance submissions for the first time ever…

Joan Hill, one of the most celebrated Native women painters of the 20th century, walked over to the other side on June 16, 2020. In celebration of her memory, we are sharing her artist profile from FAAM Issue No. 9, Winter 2015/16 online. By Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee/Potawatomi) As a child, I went on trips with my grandparents and my aunt to various museums throughout Northeastern Oklahoma. Among those we frequented were the Gilcrease Museum and Philbrook Museum of Art, both located in Tulsa, and the Five Civilized Tribes Museum of Muskogee. I enjoyed these trips so much; they were…

Issue No. 26, Spring 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 Making Masks, Spinning Webs, and 49 Rhythms: The Native Theater Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States by Candice Byrd (Quapaw/Osage/Cherokee Nation), 20–25 Dixza Rugs and Organic Farm: A Benizaa Family Strikes a Balance by Rosa Cays (Chicana), 26–32 Parfleches: How Native Women Pushed the Envelope of Abstraction by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 34–39 This…

 By Laura Marshall Clark (Muscogee Creek) If you pass him on the street, he’ll flash a big, infectious grin your way. Even if you don’t know him, you just can’t help smiling back. That happy grin belongs to Santa Fe artist Duhon James, known to many as the “Yiiyah Man.” His first love is relief printing, and he works in drawing, painting, and wood and linoleum block printing. Within the printmaking of this Diné artist are beloved symbols of his Ganado, Arizona, home—sheep, corn, family, hogans, stars—and one more thing. Aliens. Duhon James is Water’s Edge clan, born for Bitter…

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Need some quality viewing during quarantine? Roaring Fire Films’s Neither Wolf Nor Dog stands the test of time By RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo) If you’ve followed the work of the writer, director, and producer Steven Lewis Simpson over the years, you will certainly recognize the artist’s creative signature in his most recent cinematic storytelling endeavor, Neither Wolf Nor Dog. An adaptation of Kent Nerburn’s award-winning, autobiographic book, Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder (New World Library, 1994), Simpson’s translation is solid and loyal to Nerburn’s page, save the handful of creative liberties exercised in translation. Those…

By Staci Golar Not much makes us pause and stop scrolling on social media these days, but Animkeewa Aankwad White Eagle’s illustrations do. Informed by anime, racial injustice, pop culture, history, politics – and everything else an American Indian teenager observes in his day-to-day life – the work White Eagle posts is highly narrative, conceptually complex, and masterfully illustrated. After seeing his artwork it may not be as much of a surprise to learn that the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa/Kiowa youth hails from a creative, socially conscious family. His parents are the talented Kiowa beadwork artist Teri Greeves (who…

By Jean Merz-Edwards Visiting with us from her home studio in San Francisco, California, mixed-media artist Geralyn Montano (Navajo/Comanche) shares thoughts on the current social and economic climate in the Bay Area. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Montano uses provocative imagery inspired by personal experiences that relate to feminist and cultural themes in her work. She currently works as a teaching artist at Creativity Explored, a nonprofit organization that helps artists with developmental disabilities. What is the cultural and social climate like in the Bay Area now? In San Francisco, it seems like everything has come to…