Author: FAAM Staff

Renowned Arts School to Increase Enrollment of American Indian Students Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program to Offer Full Scholarships for Native Students Idyllwild, CA – Southern California’s world-class arts high school and celebrated summer program is offering grant-funded full scholarships to American Indians eager to excel in the arts. Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program sits on a forested mountain campus two hours inland from Los Angeles, on land of historical—and current—importance to the Qawishpa Cahuillangnah (Cahuilla Band of Indians) and all nine sovereign bands of Cahuilla people who have stewarded the land throughout the generations and continue to…

Northern Plains Indian Art Market (NPIAM), which takes place each September in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is sponsored by Sinte Gleska College on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. NPIAM is one of the few Native art markets – along with Haskell Indian Nations University’s Haskell Indian Art Market in Lawrence, Kansas — sponsored by a tribal college. NPIAM is open to artists and descendants of Northern Plains tribes from Canada and the United States. Founded in 1988, the market is in its 32nd year and attracts 50 visual arts from the potentially 23 eligible tribes. The actual market was in a…

Catoosa, OK — The Cherokee Nation sponsored its 14th annual Cherokee Art Market (CAM) on October 12 and 13, 2019. The market takes place at the tribe’s Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Tulsa. This year, Chase Earles (Caddo Nation) won the coveted Best of Show award Kee-Wat: Caddo Home, a ceramic sculpture featuring a Caddo grass lodge and summer arbor, over a bowl of incised, spiral patterns based on Ancestral Caddo designs. Earles of Ada, Oklahoma, harvested his clay near the Red River, where countless generations of his ancestors gathered clay. He hand-processed the shell-tempered clay and fires it outside…

Public Reception: Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:00–7:00 pm PENDLETON, Oregon – Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) welcomes installation artist Natalie Ball (Klamath/Modoc) to the print studio in mid-November. The public is welcome to a reception on Thursday, November 21 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Ball will share an informal artist talk beginning at 5:30 pm. The reception allows the public to not only meet the visiting artist-in-residence but also see what is happening in the studio. The gallery will display new proofs. This event is free and open to the public. Natalie Ball will spend two weeks…

Oklahoma City—Scott’s General Store, which specializes in antique Native American art, books, and ephemera, is closing due to the owner’s health issues. Located at 2828 NW 10th Street, owner J. D. Scott is liquidating his inventory at large discounts before closing on Sunday, December 1, 2019. Through October 21, 2019, Scott is offering 50% off all books and framed art and 30% off of all Native American pottery, baskets, textiles, clothing, jewelry, and antique Native art. Store fixtures are also for sale, some immediately, others at the store’s final closing. Scott writes, “Thanks to all customers/clients past & present for…

Oklahoma Historical Society and First American Art Magazine to Host Native Women Artists Discussion When: Saturday, November 9, 2019, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Where: Oklahoma History Center, Chesapeake Event Center and Gallery, first floor 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr, Oklahoma City, OK 73105 The Oklahoma Historical Society and First American Art Magazine will host an afternoon of discussion about American Indian women artists of Oklahoma. discussion with American Indian women artists on Saturday, November 9, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Oklahoma History Center. At 1:00 p.m., America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), publishing editor of First American Art Magazine, will present…

Issue No. 23, Summer 2019 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 Taking a Closer Look: Four Emerging Artists Shine in the Spotlight, RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Tewa), 24–28 Amanda Crowe & Her Legacy: Eastern Band Cherokee Woodcarving, Tammi J. Hanawalt, PhD, 30–35 peepankišaapiikahkia eehkwaatamenki aacimooni: A Story of Miami Ribbonwork, Scott M. Shoemaker, PhD (Miami), George Ironstrack (Miami), and Karen Baldwin, 36–43 Reclaiming Space in Native Knowledges and…

SWAIA Ends Relationship with Ira Wilson; New Executive Committee and Two New Staff Members Appointed Santa Fe, NM—Santa Fe Indian Market—the largest and longest-continuing juried Native American art market in the nation celebrated its 98th year this August, maintaining its reputation as the world’s leading destination for Native American and First Nations visual art. With just two years until Santa Fe Indian Market’s centennial, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA)’s board of directors made a unanimous decision last week to terminate their relationship with Executive Director Ira Wilson (Diné) and to conduct a search for new senior leadership. “We…

In the vast, dimly lit ballroom of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, the atmosphere was charged with anticipation. The eager audience chatted nervously, waiting for SWAIA director Ira Wilson (Diné) to announce the classification winners, the special award winners, and finally building up to the grand finale—the 98th annual Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Show winner. The 2019 Best Show of winner is Jackie Larson Bread, a Blackfeet beadwork artist from Montana. Inspired by this year’s market theme, “Rise and Remember: Honoring the Resilience of Native Women,” Bread decided to honor her great-aunt with a naturalistic portrait rendered…

By Cedar Marie (Standing Rock Sioux descent) Hearts of Our People pays tribute to Indigenous women’s contributions to American and Canadian art. Themes of legacy, relationships, and power provide a cogent roadmap to navigate the bonds that exist between Native ancestral pasts and their influence on the present and future. Artists Mona M. Smith and Juanita Espinosa welcome viewers to the exhibition and to the Dakota lands that Mia is built upon. The images and sounds of the Mississippi River, birds in sunlit trees, and the quietude of the Milky Way (re)introduce viewers to the cyclical relationships that nature plays…