ANCESTRAL, HISTORICAL & LIVING ARTS by INDIGENOUS PEOPLES of the AMERICAS
FırstAmericanArt MAGAZINE
NO. 34, SPRING 2022
MOTORCYCLES IN LEDGER ART
STERLIN HARJO
SENECA HAND-CARVED COMBS
PETER B. JONES
FINE ART DIGITAL PRINTS NASCA CERAMICS DISPLAY UNTIL JULY 4, 2022
WANESIA MISQUADACE JENNIFER NEPTUNE
IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS PROGRAM PRESENTS
NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS WORKSHOPS & FESTIVAL WEEK IDYLLWILD, CA
JUNE 13 – JULY 1, 2022
WORKSHOPS June 13 - July 1, 2022 NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS FESTIVAL WEEK June 19 - June 24, 2022
Join us for a week full of in-person programming including performance, exhibition, food tastings, film, and the Michael Kabotie Lecture Series. All events are free and open to the public.
NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS FESTIVAL WEEK INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION “Looking at Us: Exploring Institutional Critique” Opening June 20, 2022
Scholarships for Native American adults and teens available for 2022! FOR MORE INFO & AND TO REGISTER, VISIT:
idyllwildarts.org/nativeamericanarts
NORTHERN PLAINS INDIAN ART MARKET Best of Show Art Preview & Reception September 23, 2022 7:00pm to 8:30pm Old Courthouse Museum Sioux Falls, SD
Art Market September 24, 2022 10:00am to 6:00pm September 25, 2022 10:00am to 4:00pm Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Sioux Falls, SD
Artwork by Terrance Guardipee - “Blackfeet Holy Couple”
BIENNALE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AUTOCHTONE | CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART BIENNIAL
6th edition Tiohtià:ke | Mooniyang (Montreal) Ktinékétolékouac (Sherbrooke) Kebec (Quebec City) Canada www.baca.ca Starting April 28, 2022
Satellite Exhibitions daphne art centre Galerie Laroche/Joncas She:kon - BACA space for emerging art
Duane Isaac, Land/Body, 2020
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke Art Mûr La Maison des Jésuites de Sillery Stewart Hall Art Gallery Quai 5160 La Guilde Musée McCord
MAY 28 – 30, 2022
Memorial Day Weekend • Santa Fe, New Mexico Join us for the 18th annual Native Treasures Art Market hosted by New Mexico’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. The in-person art market showcases jewelry, pottery, sculpture, two-dimensional art, fashion, carvings, basketry, beadwork, and textiles by 200 Indigenous artists.
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) is pleased to announce Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) as the 2022 MIAC Living Treasure. This award is part of the annual Art Market and honors Native artists who have made outstanding artistic contributions to Indigenous arts and culture.
www.museumfoundation.org/native-treasures
The Art of Jean LaMarr Through May 29, 2022
SPONSORS Carole K. Anderson Nevada Arts Council Kristi Overgaard Sandy Raffealli | Bill Pearce Motors The Phil and Jennifer Satre Family Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada SUPPORTING SPONSORS Kathie Bartlett ADDITIONAL SUPPORT In memory of Bernadette Kaye, sharing her culture Nevada Humanities
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Buffalo Jumpin’, various glass beads Carol Diaz (Blackfoot) Southern Plains Fancy Dancer, tempera & casein on matboard Frances Blackbear Bosin (Kiowa-Comanche, 1921 – 1980)
Sitting Bull: The Wind of Earth, acrylic on canvas Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne - Arapaho)
Industrial Trade Blanket #9, mixed media Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee, 1957 – 2018)
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issue no. 34, spring 2022
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
Legends on Two Wheels: 20 Motorcycles and Bikers in Ledger Art By James G. Bland
Recent Developments
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Seven Directions Nonabah Sam (Diné/Tesuque Pueblo)
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Art+Lit David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Sicangu Lakota Novelist By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD
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Onöndowa'ga:' Combs: An Historic Seneca Art Form Revived By Joe Stahlman, PhD (Tuscarora descent) and Hayden Haynes (Seneca)
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Digital Fine Art Printmaking: 32 Unlocking New Visual Possibilities By Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD
Calendar 94
Nasca Ceramics: 38 Life and Death in Polychrome By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)
REVIEWS
ARTIST PROFILES Sterlin Harjo: Seminole/Muscogee Filmmaker, Producer, and Podcaster By Vicki Monks (Chickasaw)
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Peter B. Jones: Onondaga Ceramic Artist By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD
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Wanesia Misquadace: Fond du Lac Ojibwe Birchbark Biter and Jeweler By Paige Willett (Citizen Potawatomi)
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Jennifer Sapiel Neptune: Penobscot Basket Weaver and Beadwork Artist By Kelly Church (Gun Lake Pottawatomi/Ottawa/Ojibwe)
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Collections: 70 Eskenazi Museum of Art By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD
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Exhibition Reviews
74
Music Review
83
Book Review
84
IN MEMORIAM
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cover Jim Yellowhawk (Cheyenne River Lakota/ Onondaga), Off to the 49, 2008, pen and ink, color pencil, marker on antique paper, 77/8 × 77/8 in., private collection. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Mary Lou Davis (Caddo, 1925–2022) By Mary Ellen Meredith (Cherokee Nation)
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Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, 1955–2022) By Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)
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Betty Jean Fragua (Jemez Pueblo, 1962–2022) By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)
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Dave “Strummin’ Dog” Galanin (Tlingit, 1955–2021) By Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke)
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Austin Real Rider (Pawnee/Sicangu Lakota, 1941–2022) By Jackie Sevier (Northern Arapaho)
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