Episode 1. Tracy Discusses Regalia
First American Art Magazine and the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts are pleased to partner in producing Collections Spotlight, an interactive, online discussion. Diverse scholars and Native artists will select artworks from the Coe’s collection to interpret and discuss. The virtual Zoom format will bring together people from diverse regions, and the artist can take audience questions at the end.
The first episode features Tracy Newkumet Burrow (Caddo/Delaware), a regalia-maker and textile artist based in Oklahoma City. She will discuss the symbolism and techniques embedded in a Caddo dush-toh (a women’s hourglass-shaped hair piece) and a pair of beaded Caddo/Delaware moccasins. Our first Collections Spotlight!
Links
- Tracy Newkumet Burrows, Facebook @NDNRegalia
- Instagram @NDNRegalia
Further Reading
- Caddo Indians Where We Come From, by Cecile Elkins Carter (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)
- Hasinai: A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy, by Vynola Beaver Newkumet and Howard L. Meredith (Texas A&M Press, 1988)
- Traditions of the Caddo, by George A. Dorsey with introduction by Wallace L. Chafe (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)
Episode 2. Neebinnaukzhik Southall
The second episode features Neebinnaukzhik Southall (Chippewas of Rama First Nation), an artist, graphic designer, photographer, and writer based in Santa Fe. She will discuss the aesthetics and iconography in history Ojibwe quillwork, birchbark, and textile artworks and how she respectfully incorporates Anishinaabe aesthetics and designs in her own artwork.
Links
- Neebinnaukzhik Southall
online portfolio | Instagram @neebinstudios - Chippewas of Rama First Nation
website
Episode 3. Louise Goings and Tonya Carroll
The third episode features Louise Goings (Eastern Band Cherokee) and Tonya Carroll (Eastern Band Cherokee) discussing Cherokee baskets in the Coe’s collection.
Lydia Louise Goings (Eastern Band Cherokee) is a third-generation basket maker, who learned from her mother Emma Taylor. Goings specializes in white oak split baskets with natural dyes. A lifelong educator, Goings teaches basketry and the Cherokee language in the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina.
Tonya E. Carroll (Eastern Band Cherokee) of Birdtown in the Qualla Boundary, North Carolina, is the department manager of the Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute, where she empowers the next generation of Cherokee leaders and teaches Cherokee history and culture. Serving in her community in numerous capacities, Carroll is a co-organizer of the annual Kananesgi Art Market.
Links
- Lydia Louise Goings (Eastern Band Cherokee)
Cherokee Heritage Trails Cherokee Art Directory | First Peoples Fund - Tonya E. Carroll (Eastern Band Cherokee)
LinkedIn | Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute
Kananesgi Basket and Carving Festival, 2019
Episode 4. Elizabeth James-Perry
First American Art Magazine and the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts are pleased to partner in producing Collections Spotlight, an interactive, online discussion. Art scholars and Native artists will select artworks from the Coe’s collection to interpret and discuss. The virtual Zoom format will bring together people from diverse regions, and the artist can take audience questions at the end.
The fourth episode features Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag) discussing her own wampum-making practice, Northern quillwork (bird and porcupine), and motifs in Northeastern Woodlands textile art from the Coe’s collection.
Links
- Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag)
artist website - Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
official website
Episode 5. Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder
Beadwork artist, regalia maker, and director of the Kiowa Tribal Museum, Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder (Kiowa/Mvskoki/Seminole) will discuss Kiowa and other Plains moccasins and leggings.
Links
- Instagram: @curating_indigeneity
- Barbara Hail, Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles (University of Oklahoma Press, 2001)
- Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, PhD, Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Episode 6. Leah Mata Fragua
Leah Mata Fragua is a member of the yak tityu tityu yak tiłhini (the people of tiłhini), Northern Chumash Tribe, located on the Central California Coast. Based in New Mexico and California, she is a regalia maker, basket maker, and jeweler who teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Mata Fragua was a Smithsonian Artist Research fellow in 2011, and a Master Artist for Alliance of California Traditional Arts in 2013. Most recently, Mata Fragua was the 2020 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.
Links
- Leah Mata Fragua artist website
- Tahnee’s Instagram: @leahmatafragua
- Leah Mata Fragua at School for Advanced Research
E7: Jhon Goes in Center
Plains Personal Adornment in Metal
An Oglala Lakota metalsmith, carver, dancer, regalia maker, and cultural artist, Jhon Goes in Center is based in Rapid City, South Dakota, and hails from the Pine Ridge Reservation. He earned his museum studies degree from the University of Colorado and studied metal engraving from nationally renowned firearms engraver John Rohner. Jhon will discuss personal adornment in metals by Northern and Southern Plains artists from the 19th century to the present in this Collections Spotlight.
Links
- Jhon Goes in Center artist website
- Jhon Goes in Center virtual residency through Racing Magpie
- Racing Magpie, Rapid City art nonprofit
E8: Melissa Shaginoff Dene Art, Materials, and Potlatch
Ahtna Athabascan and Northern Paiute artist, activist, and curator, Melissa Shaginoff is a curator at the Alaska Pacific University’s Art Galleries in Anchorage. Her work is shaped by the structure and processes of the Dene potlatch. In 2021 Melissa will participate in two international residencies in Canada and Sweden to explore conversation as an artistic practice.
Links
- Melissa Shaginoff artist website
- Instagram @mshaginoff
E9: Kelly Church
Anishinaabe Baskets and Textiles
Gun Lake Potawatomi/Odawa/Ojibwe basket maker, birchbark biter, and Woodlands School painter discusses Great Lakes art and her own artwork
Links
- Kelly Church artist website
- Kelly Church, National Endowment of the Arts
- Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts
E10: Evelyn Vanderhoop
Discusses Northwest Coast Weaving
Celebrated Haida textile artist discusses the Naaxin, or Chilkat robe, in the Coe Center’s collection as well as her own Naaxin and Ravenstail weavings
Links
- Evelyn Vanderhoop artist website
- Evelyn Vanderhoop Haida Weaver, Facebook page
E11: Jordan Poorman Cocker
Discusses Narratives in Kiowa Adornment
Kiowa/Tongan curator, artist, and designer discusses stories embedded in regalia by her and Teri Greeves
Links
- Instagram @jordanpoormancocker
- “‘To Indigenize the Western World’: Artist and Organizer Jordan Cocker,” Smithsonian Magazine
E12: Karen Ann Hoffman
Discusses Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork
2020 NEA National Heritage Fellow Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation) discusses this sculptural beadwork unique to the Six Nations
Links
- Instagram @karenann.hoffman
- Karen Ann Hoffman, National Endowment of the Arts
E13: Ian Kuali’i
Discusses Hawaiian/Pacific Art
Kanaka Maoli [Native Hawaiian]/Apache artist, Ian Kuali’i examines Hawaiian umeke (bowls) and Micronesian navigational charts in the Coe’s collections
Links
- Instagram @iankualii
- Ian Kuali’i, School for Advanced Research
E14: Meyo Marrufo
Discusses Pomo Baskets and Regalia
Eastern Pomo artist and educator discusses Pomo baskets, shell jewelry, and personal adornment in the Coe’s collections
Links
- Instagram: @meyomarrufo
- Meyo Marrufo, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
- Robinson Rancheria
E15: G. Peter Jemison discusses Seneca art
Seneca (Heron clan) painter, filmmaker, and Ganondagan State Historic Site manager discusses his work and historical Haudenosaunee artwork from the Coe’s collections
Links
- gpeterjemison.com
- Instagram: @gpeterjemison_art
- Ganondagan State Historic Site
- Seneca Art & Cultural Center
E16: John Hagen discusses Indigenous Fishing
Unangax̂/Iñupiaq photographer and curator discusses Northern tools and artworks related to fishing and hunting collections
Links
E17: Lisa Rutherford discusses Eastern Woodland beadwork and ceramics
Cherokee Nation beadwork, ceramic, and textile artist discusses her own artwork as well as a Cherokee beaded baldric sash, pucker-toe moccasins from Virginia, and early ceramics from the Coe’s collection via Zoom
Links
- Lisa Rutherford: Always Creating, Always Learning, Osiyo TV
- Instagram: @lisa.rutherford.arts
- Lisa Rutherford’s Artwork, Spider Gallery, Tahlequah, OK
E18: Golga Oscar discusses Alaska Native artwork
Yup’ik textile artist and photographer discusses his work and artwork from Southeastern Alaska in the Coe Center’s collection via Zoom
Links
- Voices of Alaska: Golga Oscar
- Instagram: @quki92
E19: Sean Standing Bear discusses Osage visual arts in Collections Spotlight
Osage cultural historian and artist Sean Standing Bear, with Marla Redcorn (Osage/Kiowa), Director of the Osage National Museum, discusses Osage artwork in the Coe Center’s collection
Links
- E.S. StandingBear Art Studio
- Art of the Osage (University of Washington Press, 2004), by Garrick Bailey, Daniel C. Swan, E. Sean Standing Bear, and John W. Nunley
- Osage Nation Museum, Pawhuska, OK
- Creativity 2020: Art from Our Community, virtual exhibition of Osage contemporary art
E20: Mary Young Bear discusses Meskawki art
Meskwaki Cultural Center & Museum outreach officer and beadwork artist examines Meskwaki beadwork, ribbonwork, and jewelry from the Coe’s Collection via Zoom
Links
- Mary Young Bear Inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame
- Meet Native Arts Artist-in-Residence Mary Young Bear, Denver Art Museum
- Meskwaki Cultural Center & Museum, 303 Meskwaki Road, Tama, IA
E21: Larson Goldtooth and Colleen Lucero discuss Hopi-Tewa pottery
A ceramic artist and educator, Larson Goldtooth (Hopi-Tewa), an independent museum consultant, Colleen Lucero (Hopi) examine historical Hopi-Tewa and Hopi pottery from the Coe’s Collection via Zoom in Collections Spotlight.
Links
- Larson Goldtooth on AskArt
- Colleen Lucero, LinkedIn
- Hopivewat Learning Center, planned cultural center
- Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts
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