Of Gods and Heroes: Artist Jeffrey Veregge Shows Superheroes Can Come from Anywhere
An artist brings formline style and infinite possibilities to the comic book hero universe.
Art & Culture
Red Sky is Expanding the Views of the Indigenous World - If not Its Universe
Red Sky Performance presents its first U.S. show, fusing Native tradition with contemporary dance.
An Art Revolution: T.C. Cannon Shows Native Life at The Edge Of America
During his brief career, this Caddo and Kiowa painter, poet and musician blazed a new path for American Indian art and captured the energy and conflict of the 1960s and 1970s. His influence on Indigenous art is finally gaining recognition in an illuminating travelling exhibit now showing at the Museum in New York from April 6 through Sept. 16, 2019.
A Place for the Taken: The REDress Project Gives a Voice to Missing Indigenous Women
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The REDress Project of Métis artist Jaime Black speaks for the hundreds, possibly thousands, of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or disappeared during the past four decades. The red dresses fluttering at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere are an eerie reminder of a prevalent violence.
Saving an Ancient Craft: Porfirio Gutierrez Returns Home
When Porfirio Gutierrez returned to his home village near Oaxaca, he found his family and other local Zapotec weavers struggling to maintain their traditional techniques and still address the demands from external markets. Using the financial experience he gained from two decades in the United States, he is helping them adapt and preserve the old ways.
Navajo Fusion: DDAT Crosses Genres and Generations
After jamming together at the Survival of First Voices festival, the jazz group the Delbert Anderson Trio and the hip-hop performer Def-i are touring as DDAT, in a new musical style.
Carl Beam's Tribute to Anne Frank
In dedicating a Mimbres-style funerary bowl to the victim of Nazi genocide, the Canadian artist evokes echoes of inhumanity that span millennia.
Going to Disney World: Native Art at Epcot Center
A new exhibition of Native art at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center is introducing the holdings of the National Museum of the American Indian to a whole new audience and showing how new ideas continue to grow from old traditions.
Where Were the Native Artists? Reflections on Art Basel Miami 2017
Art Basel Miami is one of the premier global contemporary art fairs, but the only Indigenous artists on the program were the ones asking why so many others were absent.
Reclaiming the Landscape: The Art of Lewis deSoto
Reclaiming the Landscape
Supernatural beings inhabited the mountains around California’s Cahuilla Indians before settlers renamed the land. Lewis deSoto’s installations are recovering the ancient memories.