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    Current Issue

    FAAM No. 46, Spring 2025
    FAAM No. 46, Spring 2025 (April–June). Cover art is quillwork by Melissa Peter-Paul (Mi’kmaw).

    Issue No. 46, Spring 2025
    (April–July)

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    Features

    • The Artist Who Reconstructed Maya Blue
      By Mark Viales, 26–34
    • Maya vs. Mayan
      By Mark Viales, 34
    • Tlingit Button Blankets: Tailoring Cultural Change
      By Kariel Galbraith (Tlingit), 36–43
    • To Weave with Grass: A Precious Wild Resource
      By Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 44–49
    • Riding the Waves of History: How Installation Art Reclaims and Indigenizes Space
      By Sarah Anne Stolte, 50–55
    Kelly Lincoln basket weaving
    Coiled grass basketry start by Kelly Lincoln (Yup’ik). Image courtesy of Kelly Lincoln.

    Artist Profiles

    • Dakota Mace: Diné Interdisciplinary Artist
      By Heidi K. Brandow (Diné/Kānaka Maoli), 58–63
    • Jared Nally: Myaamia Textile Artist
      By Christy Hanson (Diné), 64–69
    • Melissa Peter-Paul: Mi’kmaw Quill Artist
      By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 70–75
    • Jonathan Thunder: Red Lake Band Ojibwe Painter, Animator & Filmmaker
      By Sheila Regan, 76–81

    Departments

    • Recent Developments, by Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 13–18
    • Seven Directions, by Hunter C. Old Elk (Apsáalooke/Yakama), 21–25
    • Art+Literature
      • Eddie Chuculate: Muscogee/Cherokee Novelist & Journalist
        By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 102–104
      • Dan Beaver (Muscogee)
        By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 105
      Dan Beaver
      Gunstock war club by Dan Beaver (Muscogee).
    • Calendar, by Abby Mikalauskas, Staci Golar, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 109–112

    Reviews

    • Exhibition Reviews, 82–96
      • Bentonville, AR | Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West
        Review by Emily C. Burns, PhD, 82–84
      • Evanston, IL | Woven Being: Art from Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Block Museum of Art
        Review by Noelle Garcia (Klamath/Northern Paiute), 85–86
      • Grand Ronde, OR | Transgressors, Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center
        Review by Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent), 87–88
      • Hanover, NH | Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), Hood Museum of Art
        Review by Peter Letzelter-Smith, 89–90
      • Minneapolis | Smart Wars by Rory Wakemup, All My Relations Arts
        Review by Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation), 91–92
      • Oklahoma City | Cheyenne Ledger Artists of Fort Marion, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
        Review by James G. Bland, 92–93
      • Taos | Taos Painted Stories, Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
        Review by Michelle J. Lanteri, PhD, 94–95
      • Tulsa | WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism, Philbrook Musuem of Art
        Review by Abby Mikalauskas, 95–96
    • Film Review
      • Rez Ball, directed by Sydney Freeland (Diné)
        Review by Angela Startz (Inupiaq), 97–98
    • Music Review
      • Horizons, Northern Arizona University
        Review by Thollem, 99–100
    • Book Review
      • Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, by Danielle Taschereau Mamers
        Review by Ruth Thomas, 100–101

    Memorials

    • Martha Gorman Schultz (Diné, 1931–2025)
      By Christy Hanson (Diné), 106
    • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Shoshone, 1940–2025)
      By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 107
    • Lillie T. Taylor (Diné, 1931–2024)
      By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 108
    Sustained! at the Denver Art Museum
    "Sustained! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art" now on view at the Denver Art Museum
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