Knowing Native Arts
Knowing Native Arts

Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1496202120

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Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and training, ethnic fraud, and the receptive scope of Native arts in new global and digital realms. This contribution to the field of fine arts broadens the scope of discussions and offers insights that are often excluded from contemporary appraisals.

Knowing Native Arts
Knowing Native Arts

Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 149622194X

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Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and training, ethnic fraud, and the receptive scope of Native arts in new global and digital realms. This contribution to the field of fine arts broadens the scope of discussions and offers insights that are often excluded from contemporary appraisals.

"Our Indian Princess"

Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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In this path breaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.

Making History
Making History

Author: Institute of American Indian Arts

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0826362109

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Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers—students, educators, collectors, and the public—in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a Native-centric point of view. Topics include biography, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, coding, arts critique, curation, and writing about Indigenous art. Featuring two original poems, ten essays authored by senior scholars in the field of Indigenous art, nearly two hundred works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA’s nearly sixty-year history, Making History offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts movement.

New Native Art Criticism
New Native Art Criticism

Author: Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780615489049

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Artists : Norman Akers, Marcus Amerman, Arthur Amiotte, Rick Bartow, Susie Bevins-Ericsen, David Bradley, Lorenzo Clayton, Karita Coffey, Jim Denomie, Joe Feddersen, John Feodorov, Yatika Starr Fields, Nicholas Galanin, Richard Glazer-Danay, Bob Haozous, Edgar Heap of Birds, John Hoover, Frank Buffalo Hyde, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Tom Jones, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Jean LaMarr, Frank LaPena, Kapulani Landgraf, James Lavadour, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Erica Lord, Judith Lowry, Jason Lujan, James Luna, Mario Martinez, Alan Michelson, Douglas Miles, Kay Miller, Shelley Niro, Lillian Pitt, Jolene Rickard, Diego Romero, Mateo Romero, Tanis Maria S'eiltin, Susie Silook, Rose B. Simpson, Preston Singletary, Duane Slick, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Bentley Spang, C. Maxx Stevens, Roxanne Swentzell, Charlene Teters, Gail Tremblay, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kade L. Twist, Kay WalkingStick, Denise Wallace, Marie Watt, Richard Ray Whitman, Will Wilson, Steven Yazzie.

Art for a New Understanding
Art for a New Understanding

Author: Mindy N. Besaw

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1682260801

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Art for a New Understanding, an exhibition from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that opened in October 2018, seeks to radically expand and reposition the narrative of American art since 1950 by charting a history of the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved from more regionally-based conversations and practices to national and international contemporary art contexts. This fully illustrated volume includes essays by art historians and historians and reflections by the artists included in the collection. Also included are key contemporary writings—from the 1950s onward—by artists, scholars, and critics, investigating the themes of transculturalism and pan-Indian identity, traditional practices conducted in radically new ways, displacement, forced migration, shadow histories, the role of personal mythologies as a means to reimagine the future, and much more. As both a survey of the development of Indigenous art from the 1950s to the present and a consideration of Native artists within contemporary art more broadly, Art for a New Understanding expands the definition of American art and sets the tone for future considerations of the subject. It is an essential publication for any institution or individual with an interest in contemporary Native American art, and an invaluable resource in ongoing scholarly considerations of the American contemporary art landscape at large.

Hearts of Our People
Hearts of Our People

Author: Jill Ahlberg Yohe

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780295745794

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"Women have long been the creative force behind Native American art, yet their individual contributions have been largely unrecognized, instead treated as anonymous representations of entire cultures. 'Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists' explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world. This lavishly illustrated book, a companion to the landmark exhibition, includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts. It showcases more than 115 artists from the United States and Canada, spanning over one thousand years, to reveal the ingenuity and innovation fthat have always been foundational to the art of Native women."--Page 4 of cover.

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

Author: Heather Igloliorte

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1000608565

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This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories. Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.

Becoming Kin
Becoming Kin

Author: Patty Krawec

Publisher: Broadleaf Books

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1506478263

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We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history. This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.

Clearly Indigenous
Clearly Indigenous

Author: Letitia Chambers

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780890136584

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The expertise of Native glass artists, in combination with the stories of their cultures, has produced a remarkable new artistic genre. This flowering of glass art in Indian Country is the result of the coming together of two movements that began in the 1960s--the contemporary Native arts movement, championed by Lloyd Kiva New, and the studio glass art movement, founded by American glass artists such as Dale Chihuly, who started several early teaching programs. Taken together, these two movements created a new dimension of cultural and artistic expression. The glass art created by American Indian artists is not only a personal expression but also imbued with cultural heritage. Whether reinterpreting traditional iconography or expressing current issues, Native glass artists have created a rich body of work. These artists have melded the aesthetics and properties inherent in glass art with their respective cultural knowledge. The result is the stunning collection of artwork presented here. A number of American Indian artists were attracted to glass early in the movement, including Larry "Ulaaq" Ahvakana and Tony Jojola. Among the second generation of Native glass blowers are Preston Singletary, Daniel Joseph Friday, Robert "Spooner" Marcus, Raven Skyriver, Raya Friday, Brian Barber, and Ira Lujan. This book also highlights the glass works of major multimedia artists including Ramson Lomatewama, Marvin Oliver, Susan Point, Haila (Ho-Wan-Ut) Old Peter, Joe David, Joe Fedderson, Angela Babby, Ed Archie NoiseCat, Tammy Garcia, Carol Lujan, Rory Erler Wakemup, Lillian Pitt, Adrian Wall, Virgil Ortiz, Harlan Reano, Jody Naranjo, and several others. Four indigenous artists from Australia and New Zealand, who have collaborated with American Indian artists, are also included. This comprehensive look at this new genre of art includes multiple photographs of the impressive works of each artist.