Author: FAAM Staff

The 2016 Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Show winner is Adrian Nasafoite (Hopi) for his woodcarving, “Purification.” Classification winners are: I. Jewelry: Benson Manygoats (Navajo) II. Pottery: Al Qöyawayma (Hopi) III. Painting/Drawings/Graphics/Photography: Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo) IV. Wooden Pueblo Figurative Carvings and Sculpture: Adrian Nasafotie (Hopi) V. Sculpture: Ed Natiya (Navajo) VI. Textiles: Berdina Charley (Navajo) VII. Diverse Arts: Leonard Gene (Navajo) VIII. Beadwork/Quillwork: Joyce and Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (Assiniboine-Sioux) IX. Youth: Nicklaus Stanaland (Navajo) X. Moving Images: Jordan Dresser (Northern Arapaho), Julianna Brannum (Comanche), and Mat Hames XI. Basketry: Kelly Church (Odawa-Ojibwe) Special awards include the…

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) cohosted our fall launch party at Museum Hill Café. Weldon Fulton prepared a menu of Cherokee-inspired cuisine to honor Lloyd Kiva New that included turkey skewers, cornbread, an onion and egg dish, and sassafras tea. Aysen New agreed to share some words at our launch, but we were surprised when she brought Jeff New, Lloyd’s son, as well as his wife and children to our event. A great mix of people joined us from MIAC, School for Advanced Research, Wheelwright, International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, IAIA, and even…

Issue No. 12, Fall 2016 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 Archival Art by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 26–33 Science Fiction Imagery in Native Art by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 34–39 Lloyd Kiva New by Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation), 40–45 Contemporary Native Art in Britain by Stephanie Pratt, PhD (Dakota), 48–55 Three Artists You Should Know by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 56–59 Artist Profiles Colin Coonsis: Zuni Jeweler and…

Issue No. 11, Summer 2016 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 Iroquois Whimsies by Wandeyu Estrada-Goeman (Onondaga), 22–27 Mata Ortiz Pottery by Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi), 28–33 Great Plains Horse Painting by Kim Mariette, 34–39 Maya Influences in Yucatecan Art by Geoffrey E. Aronson, 40–45 Artist Profiles Marwin Begaye: Navajo Printmaker by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 46–51 Kansuet: Guna Painter by Peter Szok, PhD, 52–57 Marianne Nicolson, PhD: Dzawada’enuxw…

Letter to the People of France, May 24, 2016 The People of the Pueblo of Acoma, an Indian tribe in the United States, call upon the People of France to help us in our hour or need. Something very disturbing and unsettling has been occurring in Paris auction houses and in the art world that has led to outrage and condemnation by many Native American tribes in the United States, including the Pueblo of Acoma. It’s the illegal practice of trafficking and selling Native American cultural property – items considered sacred, sacrosanct, used in worship, and never to be given away…

By Kelly Church (Grand Traverse Odawa-Ojibwe) In the coming decade, black ash split baskets, ash bark baskets, and hand-carved ash cradleboards will become some of the rarest, collectible pieces of Native art. Black ash (Nigra fraxinus), also known as brown ash, is a tree that only grows in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The Native Nations in these areas, which include the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wabenaki, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee, have woven baskets from the black ash tree for thousands of years. First, they wove utilitarian baskets, and after contact, fancy baskets to provide for the needs of the communities…

Issue No. 10, Spring 2016 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 Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 22–29 American Indian Art Magazine by Gloria Bell (Métis), 30–31 Historical Continuum: The Portraits of Brian Honyouti by Zena Pearlstone, PhD, 32–37 A Conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 38–42 Artist Profiles Angela Babby: Oglala Lakota Glass Artist by Mary V. Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota), 48–53…

By Loretta Webster (Oneida Nation) Crowds gathered, the press was there, and the Woodland Indian Art Facebook page shot up with visitors as the story of Mark Fischer’s copper bison hit the moccasin telegraph. Mark installed the life-size copper bison in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a week before the annual Woodland Indian Art Show and Market in June 2015. Mark Fischer is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Oneida Nation (formerly known as the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin) and the amazing copper sculpture of a bison looked…

Join us on for our spring launch party in Oklahoma City! When: Saturday, February 27, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Where: Oklahoma History Center, OERB Classroom 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr., Oklahoma City, OK Map Special presentation: 2:45 pm–3:30 discussion about American Indian Women Painters in Oklahoma by Mary Jo Watson, PhD (Seminole Native), Director Emeritus; Regents’ Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages to be served. Copies of the latest issues will available! Free access to the museum for all launch party attendees—including the “We Are Who We Were” permanent…

Issue No. 9, Winter 2015/16 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 $16.99 USD Features March of the Land Writers: Unsanctioned Indigenous Street Art Interventions by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 22–27 Ologwagdi, El Kolectivo, and the Art of Protest in Panama by Peter Szok, PhD, 28–34 From Lamb to Loom: The Navajo-Churro and Sheep Is Life Celebration by Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi), 35–39 Faithfully Rendered: Naturalism in Contemporary Native American Portrait Painting by…