Author: FAAM Staff

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…

First American Art Magazine’s Top 10 Native Art Events of 2015 The year 2015 marked a stellar one for Indigenous arts of the Americas. We could have easily doubled this list with so many strong, major exhibits and new art venues breaking ground. Here are the Top 10 Native Art Events, as selected by First American Art Magazine’s advisors and writers. 1. Walter Soboleff Building, Sealaska Heritage Institute Named for the late Tlingit scholar, Indigenous rights activist, and Presbyterian minister, the Walter Soboleff Building opened in downtown Juneau, Alaska, on May 15th. Built by the nonprofit Sealaska Heritage Institute, the building…

Issue No. 8, Fall 2015 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 Ga ni tha, Three Native Women, and the Venice Biennale, John Paul Rangel, PhD (Mestizo/Apache descent), 26–30 The Continuum of Plains: Pictorial Tradition, heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw) and Joe D. Horse Capture (A’aninin). 34–39     Asleep and Awake: Contemporary: Indigenous Video Art and the Politics of Presence, Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 40–45    Celebrating Life and Death in a Zapotec Village, Kevin…

Porfirio Gutierrez, Zapotec, to Share His Smithsonian Research with His Oaxacan Community “LIKE MANY PEOPLE in our village, my family has descended from generations of Zapotec weavers going back as far as anyone can remember,” says Porfirio Gutierrez. “As you know, Teotitlán has been known for its fine weaving since pre-Columbian times. In spite of our long standing reputation for fine work, the economic downturn and other factors have hurt our livelihood and threaten the existence of our traditional art.” Gutierrez is one of four artists chosen to participate in the Artist Leadership Program sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum…

The Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) held its 20th biennial conference last weekend north of Santa Fe. Being in New Mexico was homecoming for the organization, since it was founded in Albuquerque. With about 240+ participants, this conference was its largest Thanks to the convenient location at the Pojoaque Pueblo’s Buffalo Thunder Resort, it was easy for locals to drop by and visit old friends and colleagues. NAASA is a mix of art historians, anthropologists, art critics, curators, artists, and other art and museum professionals. Native American studies is usually an interdisciplinary field at colleges, and only approximately a…

Issue No. 7, Summer 2015 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 New Mexico $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $16.99 USD Features Opening the Water Highway: Tribal Canoe Journeys as an Honor Song for American Indian People, by Misty Ellingburg (Shoalwater Bay Tribe), 16–21 Raising Our Canoe, poem by Misty Ellingburg (Shoalwater Bay Tribe), 21 The Talent and Tradition of Catawba Potters, by Michole Eldred (Catawba/Eastern Cherokee descent), 22–28 From the Birthplace of the World: The Solar Map…

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Issue No. 6, Spring 2015 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 New Mexico $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $16.99 USD Features Dancing with Fire: The Majestic and Dangerous Work of Grupo Sotz’il, by Heidi McKinnon, 16–23 The Musical Instruments, by Heidi McKinnon, 23 Storming Canada: Carl Ray, Indigenous Representation, and the Sacred Legends, by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 24–29 Tarahumara People and Their Art: When the Ordinary Becomes Unique, by Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi), 30–39 Through the Sacred…