Author: FAAM Staff

An annual event to see great art, meet up with old friends, and make new friends, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Scholarship Dinner & Auction was a resounding success. Collectors bid the eclectic offerings in the silent auction and enjoying sunshine, reconnecting, and cocktails on La Terraza at La Fonda on the Plaza. The ballroom at La Fonda on the Plaza swelled to capacity. The evening’s theme was “stand up for student success,” because eighty percent of IAIA students rely on scholarships to be able to attend college. Last year’s dinner and auction raised $170,000 toward these vital…

Catch 22: Paradox on Paper reception at the Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts was a wonderful way to launch Indian Market week! The Ralph T. Coe Foundation is a nonprofit organization that manages the art collection of the Ralph T. Coe, which includes exceptional examples of historic Oceanic, African, and Native American art. Led by President/CEO Rachel Wixom, the unique organization—a collection sans museum—is in the business of making connections. They have invited guest curators—as young as high school students—to work with their collection—and also partnering with museums to showcase the collection, as they did with Connoisseurship and…

Issue No. 15, Summer 2017 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 The Artistic Legacy of Spiro Mounds, America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 18–27 Guaman Poma and The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Annick Benavides, 28–34 Honor and Revival: Cherokee National Treasure, by Mary Ellen Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 36–39 Frame, Mat, Glass? How Do You Decide?, Rose Marie Cutropia, 40–42 Artist Profiles Marcus Amerman: Choctaw Beadwork Artist, RoseMary Diaz, 46–51…

WHAT: Catch 22: Paradox on Paper opening reception and First American Art Magazine No. 16 launch party WHEN: August 15, 2017–March 31, 2018 WHERE: 1590 Pacheco St, Santa Fe, NM 87505 | Map The Ralph T. Coe Foundation hosts Catch 22: Paradox on Paper, a group exhibition curated by Nina Sanders (Apsáalooke) featuring works from the collection of Edward J. Guarino. Sanders creates a provocative dialogue between postmodern and contemporary Native artists. She teases out the underexplored themes in works on paper by celebrated artists of the 20th century T. C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946–2078), Rick Bartow (Wiyot, 1946–2016), and Charles Loloma (Hopi, 1921–1991)…

Native POP: People of the Plains art market prepares for fifth annual artist reception and art market Rapid City, SD—The fifth annual Native POP: People of the Plains art market and cultural celebration is first and foremost a juried fine art show featuring established and emerging Native American artists. Native POP: People of the Plains will host an awards presentation and artist reception at the Dahl Arts Center, Friday, July 14, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. Meet award-winning Native artists and preview artwork ahead of the art market on Saturday, July 15 at Main Street Square. The awards ceremony starting at…

We Were. We Are. An exhibit featuring the work of six artists from the Northern Arapaho Artists Society and the Creative Indigenous Collective is currently on display at the Wyoming State Museum. The exhibit features the works of Bruce Cook and Robert Martinez from Riverton, Wyoming; Lauren Monroe, Ben Pease, and John I Pepion from Montana; and Louis Still Smoking from South Dakota. Born out of a lack of exhibition opportunities for Native artists in Wyoming, the Northern Arapaho Artists Society has arranged three to four exhibitions of Native artwork per year since 2012. A group of friends formed the…

Issue No. 14, Spring 2017 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 Blanketing the Plains: Hanoolchaadi in Indian Country, Roshii Montano (Diné) and Jill Ahlberg Yohe, PhD, 20–25 Intersections of Indigeneity, Feminism, and Art, Jean Merz-Edwards, 26–31 German Silver Jewelry of the Southern Plains Indians, Denise Neil (Delaware Tribe/Cherokee Nation), 32–37 In Search of Hózhó: Notes on Performance and Performance Art, Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 38–43 Artist Profiles Elizabeth James-Perry…

Issue No. 13, Winter 2016/17 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 Zapotec Weaving: The Resurgence of a Cultural Artform, by Kevin Simpson, 22–29 Marked for Life: An Indigenous Tattoo Reawakening, by Lars Krutak, PhD, 30–37 The Tom and Mary James/Raymond James Financial Art Collection, by Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent), 38–43 Neoglyphix Travels North: Anchorage Museum’s Urban Interventions, by Martina Dawley, PhD (Hualapi/Diné), and Dawn Biddison, 44–48 Artist Profiles…

In light of the renewed attempts by art writers to position Jimmie Durham as a Cherokee, an American Indian, and a Person of Color in connection to the traveling retrospective exhibit Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, Nancy Marie Mithlo, PhD (Chiricahua Apache), granted FAAM permission to republish her 1993 letter to the editor in Art in America. While Art in America recently posted Lucy R. Lippard’s article, “Jimmie Durham—Post-Modern ‘Savage’ ” online, they did not publish the letters written in response to this article. To the Editors: In reference to Lucy Lippard’s article on Jimmie Durham, I would like to point out the qualifiers…

“I am not Cherokee. I am not an American Indian.”  —Jimmie Durham, “Letters: Identities Clarified?,” Art in America 81, no. 7 (July 1993), 23. In June 2017, FAAM posted a list of links and information about Durham’s false claims of being of Cherokee descent because almost nothing was available online on the subject. Since then, a substantial amount of material has been published, listed below. Since June 2017, no one has provided a single fact to contradict the statement that Jimmie Durham is not Native American, is not Cherokee, and has no Cherokee ancestry. Writings Nancy Marie Mithlo, ed., “Decentering Durham,” American Indian…