To celebrate its 50 th anniversary, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY presents an exhibition highlighting its sustained, ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nobody could tell a story like Roxy Gordon. He would stay up all night on the porch of his house in East Dallas—this was in the eighties and nineties—surrounded by artists and musicians, spinning ...