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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…

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…