By Staci Golar Adrián Takano is a self-taught Mestizo artist who specializes in spectacular street art. Strolling around Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, where Takano lives, unsuspecting viewers are stopped in their tracks by…
By Staci Golar Beadwork first captured the imagination of Hollis Chitto (Mississippi Choctaw/Laguna and Isleta Pueblos) when he was a young child. Maynard White Owl Lavadour (Cayuse/Nez Perce), a Plateau artist revered for…
By Staci Golar It’s not surprising, really, that Dawn Wallace Kulberg (Chugach Alutiiq) became a jeweler. She grew up in Santa Fe watching her parents, Denise and Samuel Wallace, create extraordinary pieces, and…
Visiting with us from her home in Montana, Jackie Larson Bread (Blackfeet) is a renowned beadwork artist known for her detailed portraiture and geometric abstraction rendered with a gorgeous and nuanced palette of…
Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock) won the 2020 Best of Show for her unique cradleboard, Common Ground: Culture Isn’t Black and White. The artist writes about her symbolism: “This is us today. All these images…
The Hood Museum of Art Brings Contemporary Native Ceramics to Dartmouth’s Campus Hanover, NH—Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics examines the work of six artists whose practices are grounded in our relations to…