The artist says she wants to “confront people with beauty and pride and complexity.”
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Artists Go DIY in the Desert
A tight-knit community of art entrepreneurs in Albuquerque launched their businesses in the wake of the pandemic.
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Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.
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Don’t Fear a Red Planet, Selections From the World’s Only Native American Comic Shop
A suggested reading list from Red Planet Books and Comics highlighting Native American literary work.
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Seeking Better Ways for the Art Community to Collaborate with Indigenous Communities
Are ecological thinking and decolonial practice merely genres, or are they being used to transform all aspects of arts discourse?
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Two Navajo Artists Weave New Histories
Zefren-M and Morris Muskett find self-expression through contemporary weaving.
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George Morrison, the Ojibwe Modernist Who Defined Space With a Horizon Line
The artist’s work features heavily in Twin Cities museums, but new USPS stamps depicting his distinctive landscapes may help broaden his legacy.
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Native-Inspired Haute Couture Fashion Prepares for a Big Year
Fashion designer Patricia Michaels prepares for SWAIA’s centennial.
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The Never-Ending Storytelling of Native American Jewelry and Its Makers
Two artists exemplify the power of storytelling at the center of Native American art.
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Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Launches New Art Fair
Art Indigenous Santa Fe aims to increase representation for contemporary Native American and First Nations artists.
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Remembering Jaider Esbell and How His Activism Challenged Art Institutions
Jaider Esbell showed us that future biennials will need to look to art activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as authoring agents.
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25 Years Later, Nez Perce Tribe Is Repaid for Buying Back Its Own Artifacts
In 1996, Nez Perce Tribe members had to fundraise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay the Ohio History Connection to secure artifacts that were rightfully theirs.