Jamie Okuma (Shoshone-Bannock-Luiseño) won the 2018 Best of Show with her beaded soft sculpture, Protect, Honor, Cherish, featuring a Shoshone mother and child in a cradleboard. In celebration of the 60th annual Heard Fair, Howard R.…
Washington, DC – Several weeks ago, FAAM posted a story about the artists (three of them Native) whose designs were chosen as possibilities for the National Native American Veterans Memorial to be constructed on…
FAAM No. 18, Spring 2018 Launch Party “Sisters: The Art of Gracelynn and GeorgeAnne Growingthunder” This Saturday, February 24, 2:00 to 4:00 At First American Art Magazine’s new office space at Elite Plaza,…
BETHEL, AK – On February 9, Francesca Sosa shared a video of her six-year-old daughter, Olivia, on the Yupik Eskimo Dance Facebook page. Within hours, it was shared widely across Indian Country, then…
Santa Fe, NM—The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) selected Ira Wilson (Navajo) to serve as its executive director. Wilson, of Albuquerque, brings decades of Native art experience to his new role, which…
Indigenous people have always danced, but they weren’t associated with ballet until the 1940s when Osage ballerina Maria Tallchief rose to prominence as America’s first prima ballerina when famed choreographer George Balanchine formed the…