Author: FAAM Staff

Regina, SK – The MacKenzie Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the launch of its Digital Exhibition Toolkit & Art Installation Launcher (DETAIL)—a free comprehensive resource to empower more artists, curators, and galleries to produce their own interactive digital art exhibitions. As digital artists continue to evolve, and push creative boundaries, galleries and exhibition design have not moved at the same pace. Digital art is often compromised to fit into a physical gallery or relies on ambitious, tech-savvy curators to produce labor-intensive boutique solutions to present digital art in its intended format. Over the past three years, the MacKenzie Art…

The Best of Show winner at the 67th annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market had never entered this market before. Rebecca Lucario (Acoma, Yellow Corn clan) said she was completely surprised by her win. Her Four Seasons & North Star is a ceramic platter with intricate fine-line designs in black-on-white slip with burnt sienna triangle accents strategically brightening the design. She painstakingly painted the fine lines with yucca brushes. Her mathematically perfect geometric designs are a masterful exercise in Op Art, pulsating and moving the eye inward and outward across the surface. “I didn’t think to do pottery…

Symposium | March 6 & 7, 2025 Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Please pre-register here: tinyurl.com/zzzd99xy The term Belonging increasingly gains currency in discussions of Native American art and material culture in museums, art history, and Native American and Indigenous studies. This symposium explores how the concept points to agency, animacy, and fundamentally distinctive epistemological systems. While in many settler contexts, belonging signifies possession, parallelling displacement and genocide of Native Americans, in many Indigenous knowledge systems, the term speaks to the relationality of belonging to and within…

Issue No. 44, Fall 2024 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, click below: Features Native Puppetry Has Arrived by Sheila Regan, 23–29 Of the Twig Eater: The Quiet Revival of Moosehair Embroidery by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 32–39 The Path to Venice: Originators and Leaders Bring Native American Art to the Biennale by Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation), 40–45 The Impact of American Indian Black-and-White Photography by Matt Jarvis (Osage), 46–53 Artist Profiles Lester Harragarra: Otoe-Missouria/Kiowa Photographer by Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa), 54–58 Lester Harragarra: Context by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation),…

Tribes Gallery, 512 W. Main St, Norman, OK 73069 | map (405) 329-4442 | tribesgalleryok.com Dates: January 7–February 2, 2025 Curators and Artists Talk: Sunday, January 19, 2:00–4:00 pm Will coincide with an OKC Indian Art Club meeting. Free and open to the public | Facebook Event This group art exhibition is a celebration of Wichita culture and community. Historically, the Wichita were not a single band but a constellation of relative tribes, who are original peoples of the Southern Plains, living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas for thousands of years. Today, they are federally recognized as the Wichita and…

We loved looking back at this year, reflecting on all of the truly exciting exhibitions and art events that featured Indigenous arts. Native artist representation was apparent more than ever, from international art shows to the red carpet. And while we’d want to include everything, there were too many to name. These are some of the amazing events the FAAM team selected through anonymous voting. As always, we’d love to hear what your favorites for the year were in the comments. 1. Indigenous Inclusion at the Venice Biennale The 60th Venice Biennale, whose central exhibition was titled Foreigners Everywhere, was…

Denver, CO — How have the Indigenous people of North America been sustained by beauty, connections, and spirituality? An exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum (DAM) aims to answer that question. Opening December 22, 2024, and guided by the themes of fashion, family, ancestors, and the reasons Native people gather (like dances or ceremonies), SUSTAINED! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art, is a celebration of Indigenous contributions to the arts and to the museum over the past 100 years. SUSTAINED! draws from both historical and current objects in the DAM’s permanent collection to show the ongoing relevance and continuity…

taca:kira:kʔickskwa:wa:stic / We had dreams: Art by Wichitas and Descendants Venue: Tribes Gallery, 512 W Main St, Norman, OK 73069 | Leslie Pate, owner: (405) 329-4442 | tribesgalleryok.com Co-curators: Robin Williams (Wichita/Caddo), email, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), email Dates: January 4–February 3, 2025 Opening reception: Saturday, January 11, 2:00–4:00 pm Oklahoma City Indian Art Club, Sunday, January 21, 2:00–4:00 pm Eligibility: Visual artists, enrolled citizens of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie) and direct descendants (parent, grandparent) Two-dimensional works should be framed, let America know if you need assistance with framing. Works can include beadwork,…

Holly Wilson and Zachary Miller in Conversation with Denise Neil, PhD Where: Charles M. Russell Center, 409 W. Boyd, Norman, OK | website | map When: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 5:00–7:00 pm Dinner provided by Junebug Catering Two nationally known Native American artists discuss how their art practices deal with issues of land, community, and their representative cultures with a museum director and Native art historian. Holly Wilson, an enrolled citizen of the Delaware Nation and descendant of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, lives in Mustang, Oklahoma, where she maintains studios including her own foundry. She focuses on storytelling through…

Issue No. 43, Summer 2024 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy for $9.99, click below: Features Foreigners Everywhere: Indigeneity at the 60th Venice Biennale by Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 24–33 Katsina Carving in the Art World: Reflecting on a Century of Evolving Styles and Techniques by Mark Bahti, 34–41 Wild Horses: Ron Toahani Jackson and the Indigenous Horse Nation Protector Alliance by Ruthanne Johnson, 42–47 From the Skin of the Tree: New Directions in Birchbark Etching by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 48–55 Artist Profiles Shonto Begay: Diné Painter by…