Liz Romero had purchased a selection of beaded wallets from a Native wholesaler, planning to sell them in her small art shop and display some of them at a local powwow in October. She had been assured ...
Each wampum bracelet, pendant and pair of earrings that Aquinnah Wampanoag artist Elizabeth James-Perry creates is hand-crafted and unique. “This is from the quahog shell in Massachusetts. It’s a hard ...
It’s not hard to find a blanket or throw pillow at a major retailer that echoes the style of Native art. However, that doesn’t mean the product has any connection to a Native American artist. “For the ...
Nancy Blomberg, who as a curator at the Denver Art Museum treated American Indian artworks as aesthetic creations, not artifacts, and championed the artists who made them, died Sept. 2 at her home in ...
From left to right: “Untitled (Wall with Doorway),” 1966, Alfred Young Man; “Crow Stripes No. 7,” 1967, Carl Tubby; “Nez Perce IV,” 1966, Carl Tubby Credit: Brian Chilson Just as Indigenous scholars ...
To celebrate its 50 th anniversary, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY presents an exhibition highlighting its sustained, ...
"Cheyennes Chasing Antelope" at the Donald Ellis Gallery booth at Expo Chicago 2024, from A complete Fort Marion drawing book (1876) illustrated by Bear's Heart (Nockkoist, Tsis tsis'tas) and ...
The Mokuck, a distinctively shaped birchbark basket seen in many variations throughout Native Indian art, arouses a viewer's curiosity and admiration. "Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous," murmured a woman ...
Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.” By Holland Cotter The Dakota Sioux ...
Yankton Dakota artist Mary Sully opened a solo exhibition at the Met Museum in New York last summer, and right now she has a solo exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Not bad for a ...