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 $13.99 USD Features Allan Houser: Reflections on My Grandfather, by Emily A. Haozous, PhD, RN (Ft. Sill Apache), 36–39 The Theme of Dance in Allan Houser’s Sculptures, by Jeanine Belgodère, 40–43 Healing Through the Creative Process: Art Therapy in Indian Country, by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 44–47 Travels to China: Artists Sustain Traditions Using the Universal Language of Art, by Staci Golar, 48–51 Cuzco…
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FAAM No. 1, Fall 2023 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations US, New Mexico $5.42 USD US, other than New Mexico $5.00 USD Canada $6.73 USD International $13.38 USD Features Top of the World Bound: Seven Pacific Northwest Coast, Alaskan, and Canadian First Nations Artists Reflect on Challenge, Opportunity, and Santa Fe Indian Market by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 40–45 Stitches in Time: The Rebirth of Southeastern Woodlands Beadwork, by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 46–51 | Read online Cultural Heritage, Art, and Living Beings: Justice…
FAAM No. 0, Spring 2013 First American Art Magazine’s issue No. 0 is the pilot issue. Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations New Mexico $16.25 USD US, not NM $14.99 USD Canada $16.68 USD International $22.61 USD Feature Articles More Than Just a Trend: Rethinking the “Native” in Native Fashion, by Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), 33–39 Northern Lights: Greenlandic Art in the 21st Century, by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 46–55 Greenlandic Art History Timeline, by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) with David Winfield Norman, 52–53…
This is a chronological list of significant or pivotal moments in the development of Native American art or the visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Earlier dates, especially before the 18th century, are mostly approximate. Before the Common Era 33,950–15,050 BCE: Anthropomorphic figures and other subjects painted at Serra da Capivara, Piauí, in northeastern Brazil | more 12,800–8,500 BCE: Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs, near Reno, Nevada, are carved in abstract, geometric designs. 11,000 BCE: Fossilized megafauna bone etched with a profile image of a walking mammoth left near Vero Beach, Florida, is the oldest known portable art in the Americas…
Versatile is the word for Maria Panínguak’ Kjærulff’s art practice. This Danish-Inuit artist played a nurse in the first feature length film produced in Greenland and acted in a daytime TV soap opera. She designed Christmas stamps and designed the set of the play “Gi Mi Tiggum” or “Give Me Chewing Gum.” In three short days, Kjærulff painted a 21-foot-long frozen shipping container. Working in collaboration with schoolchildren, Kjærulff transformed hand-painted rocks into a monumental bird effigy. In a small town in northern Finland, she created Igloo Ruin, fantasy landscape of flowers and stone. Born in 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark…
By Roy Boney Jr. The importance of typography in a literate society can sometimes be overlooked particularly when bombarded by text in various formats from road signs, dinner menus, Facebook statuses, Instagram tags, and tweets. To stop and seriously consider the thought and finesse that goes into the design and creation of letterforms can result in a sublime appreciation of x-heights, counters, ligatures, ascenders, descenders, stems, and spines. The shapes of glyphs in writings systems often are strong cultural identifiers. Think of the uniqueness of written languages such as Cherokee, Japanese, Inuktitut, Hebrew, and Osage. These shapes play a large…
First American Art Magazine’s Top 10 Native Art Events of 2014 For Native American art, 2014 has been a bustling, productive year, with groundbreaking art shows, tribes encouraging and promoting their artists, publications heralding new art research, and prehistoric artworks being celebrated. Indigenous artists won major mainstream awards and exhibited in international art fairs. While challenges remain in educating the public about Native art, 2014 saw exhibits of Indigenous art receive critical acclaim from the mainstream media and public sentiment shifting towards the tribes in the issue of repatriating sacred cultural patrimony. First American Art Magazine chose our top ten…