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    Seven Directions

    Seven Directions is a top-seven list in which Native arts administrators, curators, professors, and other professionals share what they are most excited about! Here are links to their top seven, so you can find out more!

    Claire Green Young
    Claire Green Young (Choctaw Nation). Photo: Mekayla McClure.

    FAAM No. 51, Summer 2026:
    Claire Green Young | bio

    1. East: Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art | link
      1. D.G. Smalling at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art | link
    2. West: SWAIA’s Native Fashion Week | link
    3. North: Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK | link
      1. Kalyn Barnoski (Mvskoke/Cherokee) | link
    4. South: Intertribal Community Council of Texas, Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | link
    5. Above: First Americans Museum, Oklahoma City, OK | link
    6. Below: Museum of the Red River, Idabel, OK | link
    7. Center: Choctaw Cultural Center, Calera, OK | link
    Sean Chandler, EdD
    Sean Chandler, EdD (Aaniinen)

    FAAM No. 50, Spring 2026:
    Sean Chandler, EdD | link

    1. East: Center for Native Futures, Native-led art space in Chicago | link
    2. South: Jay Schmidt, artist based in Bozeman, MT | link
    3. West: Corwin Clairmont (Salish-Kootenai), Two-Headed Arrow/Tar Sands Project at the Missoula Art Museum | link
    4. North: Rock Art artists | Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, link
    5. Above / No Direction: Breaking through others’ expectations of becoming No One | No link
    6. Below: Kirks’ Grocery, community art space in Billings, MT | link
    7. Center: Buffalo, our keystone species. International Buffalo Relations Institute | link
    Shyla Spicer
    Shyla Spicer, MBA, PMP (Yakama/Seneca-Cayuga)

    FAAM No. 49, Winter 2026:
    Shyla Spicer

    1. North: Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene at Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK | link
    2. South: Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON at the de Young Museum in San Francisco | link
    3. East: An Indigenous Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston | link
    4. West: The Epic Tale of Hi’iaka by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne (Native Hawaiian) and Roslyn Catracchia | link
    5. Above: Augmented reality by Warren Montoya (Tamaya/Kha’po Owingeh) and Moses Goods (Kānaka Maoli) | Instagram @warrmont | Instagram @__.actormosesgoods.__
    6. Below: Matriarts, arts organization
    7. Center: Center for Native Arts + Cultures, Portland, OR | link
    Scott Manning Stevens
    Scott Manning Stevens, PhD (Akwesasne Mohawk)

    FAAM No. 48, Fall 2025:
    Scott Manning Stevens, PhD

    1. Central: Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Dream Map and Cornucopia at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY | link
    2. East: Native North American Gallery Opening at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA | link
    3. North: Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky at the Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO | link
    4. West: Matthew Kirk: In a Time of Darkness, This is Wonderful News at de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA | link
    5. South: Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in the Works of Nine Native American Women Artists at the Ringling, Sarasota, FL | link
    6. Above: Inuuteq Storch: Soon Will Summer Be Over, exhibition at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY | link
    7. Below: unutai e! unutai e!, Kāi Tahu community and Anne Noble collaboration at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand | link