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Renowned Fellowship featuring contemporary Native art exhibition opens in November 2025 INDIANAPOLIS – Five Indigenous artists have been selected for the prestigious 2025 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will exhibit their work in beginning November 2025. This show will feature innovative paintings, prints, installations, sculptures, and assemblages. Each fellow receives $50,000. The museum will purchase more than $100,000 of their artworks. These join the Eiteljorg’s collection of contemporary Native art, considered one of the best such collections anywhere. Every other year since 1999, the Eiteljorg Fellowship has helped bring Native contemporary art…

Best of Show for the 102nd annual Santa Fe Indian Market went to Daniel Vallo (Acoma) for his mixed-media sculpture, Pueblo Revolt. Vallo said his work is “dedicated to the 1680 warriors of the Pueblo Revolt with a depth of handcraft for protecting and honoring Pueblo communities of past, present, and future.” It incorporates an obsidian blade, turkey feathers, and yucca fiber cordage with knots to represent the knotted cord carried by Popé to mark the days when the Pueblos would rise up against the Spanish invaders. Click on thumbnails to see larger image. Best of Show Winner Pueblo Revolt,…

Join us for an illuminated conversation about sanctioned and unsanctioned public art interventions. Free and open to the public! When: Thursday, August 15, 2024 | 10:00–11:00 am Where: Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Event Center 1590 B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe, NM | Map What: Roundtable discussion about public art interventions Who: Bob Haozous, Joseph M. Sánchez, Rachelle B. Pablo, and America Meredith Current issues of FAAM will be available. Photo: Nani Chacon (Diné/Xicana), You can’t take it with you … so give it all away, 2021, mural. Image courtesy of the Ralph T. Coe Center for the…

MINNEAPOLIS — Star WallowingBull (White Earth Ojibwe/Arapaho) has been named the third recipient of the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship. Created in partnership with the Denomie/Wilson family, All My Relations Arts, and Bockley Gallery, the annual $10,000 prize recognizes a Native artist who best exemplifies the values Denomie demonstrated in his own career: commitment to excellence, generosity of spirit, and engagement with community. Star WallowingBull spent his formative years in the Twin Cities, raised by an artist father, Frank Big Bear (White Earth Ojibwe), who greatly influenced and nurtured his creative development. A citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota,…

Issue No. 42, Spring 2024 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy for $9.99, click below: Features Nature Provides: Subtle Palettes from the Earth by Ruthanne Johnson, 22–33 Nature Provides: Resources, 31 Threads to the Past, 32–33 Celebrating Seal in Alaska Native Art by Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 34–38 Messages in Baskets: Peter J. Clair by Lucy R. Lippard, 40–45 NAGPRA Updates: Closing Loopholes Exploited by Institutions by Staci Golar, 46–49 From River Cane to Pine Needles: The Journey and Adaptation of Alabama and Koasati Baskets by Lisa LaRue-Baker (Cherokee Nation),…

Major New Norval Morrisseau Project Launched by MacKenzie Art Gallery and Carleton University By Angela Lackey Regina, Sask. — The MacKenzie Art Gallery and Carleton University proudly announce the launch of Norval Morrisseau: Storylines, an innovative and interactive online publication dedicated to the life, art, and cultural legacy of Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau (Bingwi Neyaashi Ojibwa, 1932–2007). This digital project marks a significant milestone in the appreciation and understanding of Morrisseau’s visionary contributions to Canadian art and Indigenous cultural heritage. Renowned as the mishomis (grandfather) of a new artistic movement within Indigenous contemporary art, Morrisseau challenged the Canadian art establishment…

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Appoints Siera Hyte as the Inaugural Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art Hyte will manage the growth, interpretation, and stewardship of VMFA’s Indigenous American art collection Richmond, Virginia — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today that Siera Hyte (Cherokee Nation) has been appointed as the museum’s inaugural Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art. Hyte will begin working at VMFA on August 26, 2024. “We are delighted to welcome Siera to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she will be an incredible addition to our curatorial team,” said Director…

Toronto, ON — Native Women in the Arts announced its shortlisted nominees and winner of the 9th Annual Barbara Laronde Emerging Artist Award. The Barbara Laronde Emerging Artist Award recognizes outstanding emerging Indigenous (status and non-status First Nations, Métis, Inuit) artists from Northern Ontario who are women or otherwise gender marginalized (transfeminine, transmasculine, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, Two Spirit). Native Women in the Arts (NWIA) recognizes the specific barriers that many Northern artists face, and we aim to support Indigenous artists from Northern Ontario by creating connections, professional development, and performance opportunities through our programming initiatives. Each of the five shortlisted…

Issue No. 41, Winter 2024 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, click below: Features Textures and Seasons: The History and Art of Hopi Silver Overlay by A.M. Palmer, 20–26 Looking Back: Bob Haozous’s Cultural Crossroads of the Americas by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 28–31 Marco Temporal: Indigenous Art & Activism in Brazil by Mariana Brazão, 32–38 Photo Essay | Spirit of the Corn by Hayden Haynes (Seneca Nation) with Morgan Huff, modeling regalia by Karlene Familo and Alexia Stevens (all Seneca Nation), 40–44 Artist Profiles James Fendenheim: Tohono O’odham Jeweler, and…

Kansas City, MO – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has announced new hires in its curatorial division. Tahnee Ahtone (Kiowa/Seminole/Mvskoki) joins the museum as curator of Native American art. “Discovering the depth and breadth of Tahnee’s experience during a national search was very gratifying,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. “We are grateful to the Mellon-Wingate Leadership in Art Museums Initiative for providing support for this key curatorial position and are excited that Tahnee has joined the museum.” Ahtone, an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and descendant…