Interview
Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón Dyes Wool With Kool-Aid
The Diné weaver and teacher reimagines pre-trading-post-era weaving techniques, continually coloring his practice with new aesthetic and material horizons.
Sháńdíín Brown
Opinion
This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Let’s Support Native Art
Acknowledging Indigenous survivance is a start, but there's a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.
Interview
A Diné Weaver’s Revolutionary Looms
DY Begay, best known for her abstract textiles featuring undulating bands of color, speaks about her decades-long practice of experimenting with pigment and form.
Art Review
Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
Art Review
Cara Romero Captures the Continuity of Indigenous Culture
Collaborators rather than mere models for the artist, Romero’s subjects actively shape their own representation and convey the power of artistic reclamation.
Opinion
A Swell of Native Pride at Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Symposium
The sense of collective strength throughout the three-day event was as palpable as the beats of the drums during the performances, the rhythms we felt in our gut.
Opinion
Can Santa Fe’s Indian Market Free Itself From the Settler Gaze?
Despite its role as a hub for Native artists, SWAIA hasn’t entirely moved past its origins in White settler obsession with Native authenticity.
Opinion
Why Native Artists Are Reclaiming the Whirling Log
The Diné symbol was suppressed for decades by a settler-dominated art market that conflated it with the Nazi insignia.