The Indian Space Painters were not Indians. They were a short-lived group of white painters working in New York in the late 1940s. They were, however, influenced by Native American cultural heritage ...

After decades of “staying within the lines” of what was considered traditional Native art, Indigenous artists are increasingly moving into the contemporary art space. Whether creating fine-art ...

WILLIAMSBURG —The Muscarelle Museum of Art invites visitors to reconsider their definition of Native American art with its “Expanded Horizons: Native American Creativity at the Intersection of Culture ...

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 ...

NMAIMAI copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "This exhibition was initially conceived by Frank LaPena, a key figure in California's Native fine art movement since the 1960's. Co-organized with Mark ...

Native American art has always been contemporary. It’s the museums who have attempted to lock it in the past. That practice, finally, is changing. Native American art has always been contemporary.

Introduction: Indigeneity and Multicultural Misrecognition -- Indigeneity and the Dialectics of Recognition at the National Museum of the American Indian -- Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and transform it into a World Championship Contest. Little did we know our ...

On view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe is the first major retrospective of work by acclaimed artist Truman Lowe ...