Author: FAAM Staff

First Peoples Fund will honor six Native artists with 2025 Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards Santa Fe, NM —First Peoples Fund (FPF) invites the public to an unforgettable evening celebrating the 2025 Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awardees on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, from 5:30–9:00 PM at the Museum of Indian Arts + Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each year, the Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards recognizes Native artists and culture bearers who exemplify cultural generosity, artistic excellence, and deep commitment to their communities. The 2025 honorees are: Silver Galleto (Cloverdale Pomo) Terrill Goseyun (San Carlos Apache) Janie Verret Luster…

Best of Show for the 103rd annual Santa Fe Indian Market went to Regina Free (Chickasaw), a relative newcomer to this market. She lives near the tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma and used many upcycling components, including reclaimed railroad ties and scrap metal from her rural homestead. Her sculpture reflects the powerful nature of the American bison. She says, “He sees that you’re there, but he doesn’t care.” Click on thumbnails to see larger image. Best of Show Winner Regina Free (Chickasaw), Windswept (Bison), 2025, mixed-media, Best of Show and Best of Classification V. Classification Winners The 2025 SWAIA Santa Fe…

Native Art Week, Indigenous Celebration, Indian Market Week—call it what you want, but it’s a time when the City of Santa Fe explodes with Native art events. Collectors, artists, and arts advocates pour into Northern New Mexico from across the continent and overseas. Having participated as both artists and as organizers, we’d like to share tips for making the most of this exciting and sometimes overwhelming convening. Don’t try to attend everything It’s impossible. Cherry pick the events that interest you most and plan by neighborhood since parking and Uber/Lyft rides can be hard to come by. Much of downtown…

Interview, transcription, and editing by Thollem Only a Dream is the latest album by acbo, an experimental electronic music project by Dylan Tenorio (Kewa/Diné) of Santa Fe. His album review appears in FAAM No. 47, Summer 2025, but he had a lot to share, so here is more of his interview. Hello, my name is Dylan Tenorio. I make music under the name acbo, and I’ve been using that name since 2011. I make a lot of electronic music in various genres, including jungle and drum and bass, glitch hop, other forms of hip hop, and just general electronic music.…

How can you better evaluate the art you encounter during Native Art Week? Join us for a discussion about judging and jurying Native art. Free and open to the public! When: Thursday, August 14, 2025 | 10:00–11:00 am Where: Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Event Center 1590 B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe, NM | Map What: Roundtable discussion about judging Native art Panelists: Mark Bahti, Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw), Scott C. Hale, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation). Moderator: Rachel Wixom Current issues of FAAM will be available. This discussion will not be recorded on video or broadcast. Questions? Email us. Links “Judging…

Issue No. 46, Spring 2025 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, click below: Features The Artist Who Reconstructed Maya Blue by Mark Viales, 26–34 Maya vs. Mayan by Mark Viales, 34 Tlingit Button Blankets: Tailoring Cultural Change by Kariel Galbraith (Tlingit), 36–43 To Weave with Grass: A Precious Wild Resource by Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 44–49 Riding the Waves of History: How Installation Art Reclaims and Indigenizes Space by Sarah Anne Stolte, 50–55 Artist Profiles Dakota Mace: Diné Interdisciplinary Artist by Heidi K. Brandow (Diné/Kānaka Maoli), 58–63 Jared Nally: Myaamia…

A Little Gallery Doing Big Things Galisteo, NM: Indigenization at Duende Gallery By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot, Métis, Anatolian Greek descent) UNDER THE BRICK EAVES of the little adobe building in the equally small town of Galisteo deep in the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico is Duende Gallery the host of the show Indigenization curated by Jaime Herrell (Cherokee Nation) and Robert King (Choctaw Nation) in collaboration with the Tia Collection. Indigenization runs until July 27, 2025. At the opening, parking wound around the block on both of the edges of the two-lane street. The boards are worn by years of…

Salamanca, NY – “A celebration of Native American resiliency through art and culture” as the organizers, Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center and Visit Seneca Nation, describe it, the first annual Ohi:yo’ Art Market took place on May 3, 2025. The market is at the Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino on the Allegany Indian Reservation, one of two reservations of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Ohi:yo’ is the Seneca name for the Allegheny River that runs through Salamanca. Award Ceremony The rains broke just in time for the artists’ reception for the first annual Ohi:yo’ Art Market, and a rainbow arched across the…

Museums’ Futures in Peril By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis/Anatolian Greek Descent) We live in an unprecedented time in the United States, one that may irrevocably damage the cultural life of America. There has been widespread targeting of museums with a focus on BIPOC, which includes Native Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and more communities of color. Background and Current Situation Some of the most recent examples are harrowing and have sent the museum and art world into a state of near panic across the country. The Santa Fe New Mexican announced on April 10, 2025, that a $900,000 National Endowment for the Humanities…

Issue No. 45, Winter 2025 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, click below: Features The Precarious Origins of the Iroquois Realist School by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 20–28 Indigenous Artistry, Intricate Narratives: Considering a 17th-Century Relief of Santiago in Tlatelolco, Mexico City by Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, PhD, 30–35 Hodinöšyö:nih Continuity | Innovation | Resilience: Collaborating with a 17th-Century Ancestor by Jamie Jacobs (Tonawanda Seneca) & Kathryn Murano Santos, 36–40 Threads of Kinship: Bridging Global Indigenous Communities Through Art in Kyrgyzstan by Clementine Bordeaux, PhD (Sicangu/Oglala Lakota), & Heidi K. Brandow…