“There was no call out to galleries to submit any specific work, only to submit their best work,” said fair director Mia Nielsen.
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Indigenous Artists Voice Support for Land Restitution in New Billboard Campaign
Through 20 billboards across North America, LANDBACK.Art Campaign asks: “What does land back mean to you?”
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LACMA Receives 109 Indigenous American Artworks
The gift from the Reiter Family includes 82 ceramic pieces made by the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest.
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In Response to Backlash, Mexico City Reverses Decision on Artist to Replace Columbus Statue
Many had protested Reyes’s appointment, calling for the project to involve Indigenous artists and incorporate their proposals.
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A Team of Curators Designs a System for Indigenous Artists to Thrive In
The term ‘decolonization’ has been used frequently to describe the exhibition yəhaw̓. But you won’t hear its curators call it a decolonial project. So what is it, if not that?
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The Artistic Achievements of Native Americans Through the Ages
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s series of talks and tours on Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection helps visitors better contextualize artwork by Indigenous creators across the centuries.
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Canadian Museums Association Receives $1M to Preserve and Advance Indigenous Culture
The program will fund initiatives through the CMA’s network of 2,600 museums and cultural institutions.
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Ontario’s Indigenous Culture Fund and Arts Council Budgets Are Slashed by Millions
Ontario’s provincial government has said that the budget cuts are being made to balance a $15 billion deficit, but the slashed funding would only account for about .05% of that total, while comparatively reducing a massive portion of the programs and services provided by the region’s major art organizations.
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Generations of Indigenous Voices from New York State
What unites this patchwork exhibition is the land: The artists are all Native Americans whose ancestry is tied to the place now known as New York State.
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Tanya Lukin Linklater Explores Silence in the Art of Indigenous Storytelling
The artist’s first solo exhibition in Toronto transposes the viewer into the oral traditions and everyday domestic rituals of Indigenous female life through documentation of dance and movement.
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Edmonton Unveils an Indigenous Sculpture Park on Ancestral Lands
Candice Hopkins curated the sculptures by six Canadian Indigenous artists in Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley.
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Raising Indigenous Women’s Voices in a Campaign to Decolonize Cultural Institutions
In a roundtable discussion at the EFA Project Space, Indigenous women and invited guests will hash out how best to center Indigenous voices and decolonize our institutions.