Author: FAAM Staff

By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), March 24, 2013 Now that Jessica R. Metcalfe, PhD (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is back on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, the “super important fashion Mecca,” as she jokingly says, it’s a special treat to see her down in Santa Fe. The School of Advanced Research (SAR) organized her talk at the New Mexico History Museum. Their talks have become so popular audiences can no longer squeeze into their auditorium at the SAR campus. Metcalfe earned her doctoral degree in Native American fashion from Arizona State University, and in recent years she has become…

By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), March 24, 2013 Sleepy Santa Fe is waking up from its winter hibernation! Finally, there are more art shows and art talks to lure us out of our caves. The New Mexico Museum of Art is hosting Alcove Shows 12.9 as part of its annual cycle of five-artist, five-week solo exhibits, which features Kiowa beadwork artist Teri Greeves, who shared a public talk about her work Friday, March 22. The New Mexico Museum of Art has been a longtime supporter of Indigenous artists. By showcasing Native art in mixed shows, the museum recontextualizes the work…

Issue No. 35, Summer 2022 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 New Trajectories: Four Rising Stars to Watch by Staci Golar, 26–33 Remake the World, Remake Ourselves: The Cultural Geometry of Brian Tripp and His Circle by Nanette Kelley (Osage Nation/Cherokee Nation), 34–41 The Road to Racing Magpie: Arts Advocacy on the Northern Plains by Tawa Ducheneaux (Cherokee Nation), 42–48 A Centennial of Progress Repelling Pseudo-Indians: Santa Fe Indian…

Cherokee Art Market, an intertribal juried competitive event hosted by the Cherokee Nation, is back after two years of being virtual. In its 17th year, this event, the largest Native art market, in Oklahoma hosts more than 100 Indigenous artists from 40 different tribes from Canada and the United States in our Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa, located in Catoosa, Oklahoma, on the Cherokee Nation’s reservation. The best of show award went to Troy Jackson (Cherokee Nation) for his Ancestral Duplication: Battle for Our Language, a complex ceramic-and-steel sculpture embellished with images of Cherokee syllabary. Best of Show: Troy Jackson…

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Northern Plains Indian Art Market (NPIAM) is back in person. The art market featured a select number of fewer than 30 stellar artists in a town that has been steadily growing and flexing its artistic vision. “There’s a lot of diversity here,” says Ashley Pourier (Oglala Lakota), curator at the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School. “The artists are evolving their subject matter and techniques. It’s inspiring to see.” Each fall since 1988, this art market has showcased Northern Plains artwork in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The most populous city in…

By Chadd Scott The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents Rose B. Simpson: Legacies, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Boston. The presentation highlights the diversity of Simpson’s (Santa Clara Pueblo) art making through ceramic sculpture, metal work, performance, installation, writing, and automobile design, with an emphasis on recent work. Highlighting the show are eleven ceramic figurative sculptures for which Simpson has become so celebrated, including three new works on view for the first time. Legacy (2022), the sculpture which gives the exhibition its title, is a two-part, mother-daughter piece made using a technique Simpson refers to as “slap-slab,”…

The oldest continuing Native art event in the country, SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market, marks its much-anticipated centennial this year. “I think of all the lives changed in those hundred years by this market,” said black-ash basket weaver Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy) from Maine. “It’s changed my life.” Founded in 1922, Santa Fe Indian Market is back with 500 artist booths in and around the plaza and auxiliary events at the Museo Cultural and Santa Fe Convention Center. SWAIA director Kim Peone (Colville/Eastern Cherokee) and SWAIA board member Andrea Hanley (Diné) took turns announcing the prestigious awards. Beadwork/quillwork classification winner Juanita…

August 18, Thursday, 10:30 am–12:00 pm Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590-B Pacheco Street, Santa Fe, NM Speakers Moderator: Neebinnaukzhik Southall (Chippewas of Rama First Nation), freelance writer Panelists: RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), guest editor of Legacy and Craftsmanship Quarterly Kelly Holmes (Cheyenne River Lakota), president of Native Max America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), publishing editor of First American Art Magazine Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), contributing editor of First American Art Magazine and freelance writer Roundtable discussion about where Indigenous art is moving today. A diverse group of Native American editors and writers share their insights into new…

Issue No. 34, Spring 2022 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 Legends on Two Wheels: Motorcycles and Bikers in Ledger Art by James G. Bland, 20–25 Onöndowa’ga:’ Combs: An Historic Seneca Art Form Revived by Joe Stahlman, PhD (Tuscarora descent) and Hayden Haynes (Seneca), 26–31 Digital Fine Art Printmaking: Unlocking New Visual Possibilities by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 32–37 Nasca Ceramics: Life and Death in Polychrome by America Meredith…

Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), is one of eight visual art journalists to win the 2022 Rabkin Prize. The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation provides this annual award of $50,000 to “the essential visual art journalist working in [their]  part of the country.” “It is an incredible honor to write for and about Indigenous art and artists. I am so grateful to First American Art Magazine for providing a forum for ideas and reflections on Native art,” says Pratt. She acknowledges, “I am humbled to be one of the writers whose words will be part of Native art history archives for…