On The Calendar
Exhibits and Events from Around the World
de Young Museum - San Francisco
Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Sept 15, 2024
Celebrating the artistic ingenuity of Nampeyo, famed Tewa-Hopi potter, the de Young museum presents an installation of 32 pots from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
More Info:
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/nampeyo-and-sikyatki-revival
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Exhibition runs through December 2, 2024
The exhibition celebrates the Basha family’s gift of the Eddie Basha Collection of American Indian Art to the Heard Museum. Heart of the Community: Baskets from the Basha Family Collection of American Indian Art is the first in a series of exhibitions that recognize a stellar collection.
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Exhibition runs through December 24, 2024
Maria Martinez (1887-1980), the San Ildefonso Pueblo ceramicist who became one of the most widely celebrated artists of her time and whose work continues to influence new generations of artists, has been conspicuously excluded from the discourse on American Modernism. In 2024, Phoenix’s Heard Museum will present an original exhibition and scholarly catalogue titled Maria & Modernism that seek to reconcile this oversight of American art history.
More Info:
heard.org/exhibition/maria-modernism/
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun 12 p.m.-5 p.m.
The Eiteljorg has been making Native American art history since 1999, when the Contemporary Art Fellowship began. As the museum prepares for the 2023 Fellowship in November, we take a look back at brilliant and imaginative works by contemporary artists from the first two rounds of the biennial Fellowship, in 1999 and 2001.
More Info:
eiteljorg.org/exhibitions/native-art-history-is-made-here
Victor Coochwytewa (Hopi), Silver box with turquoise. John and Carol Krena Collection. Photograph by Evan Sanders.
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Ongoing Exhibition - Ends March 5, 2023
The exhibition is curated by Robert Bauver, a specialist in historical silver jewelry and metalwork who recently curated the Heard Museum’s exhibition Southwest Silverwork: 1850-1940.
More Info:
heard.org/exhibits/elegant-vessels-a-century-of-southwest-silver-boxes/
Denver Art Museum • Denver, CO
Details:
February 19, 2023–May 21, 2023
Hamilton Building, Level 1
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography is one of the first major museum surveys to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working over the past three decades.
More Info:
www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/speaking-with-light
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
October 24, 2021 - July 17, 2022
Featuring a strong selection of nearly 180 objects from the museum’s ancient American and Latin American art collections, hailed as one of the best in the country, will tell a visually compelling narrative about the formation of the Americas from 100 B.C. to today.
de Young Museum - San Francisco, CA
December 18, 2021 – April 17, 2022
Major works by Tavernier (b. France, 1844–1889) are presented alongside historic and contemporary Pomo basketry and regalia from the Elem Pomo Indian Colony, revealing the resiliency and vitality of Elem Pomo culture.
Dł’i’naa’baa, Navajo, Ye’iibicheii Pictorial textile, 1910, Handspun wool, wool warp, natural wool color, aniline dye, 77 ¼ x 47 inches
The Valette Collection at the Heard Museum, Gift of Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette, 4930-4
Photo: Heard Museum, Craig Smith
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Exhibition Opens: Nov 5, 2021
The Heard Museum will present Toward the Morning Sun: Navajo Pictorial Textiles from the Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette Collection. The 2018 gift to the museum from Jean-Paul and Rebecca M. Valette of their acclaimed collection includes textiles primarily woven during the first three decades of the 20th century.
Ongoing Exhibition - Closes Sept 26, 2021
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
All at Once: The Gift of Navajo Weaving showcases 46 exquisite textiles from contemporary Navajo weavers.
More Info:
heard.org/currentexhibits
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
May 23, 2021–August 22, 2021
Hamilton Building, Level 1
Exhibition included in general admission
Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger is the first exhibition to present together the work of Watt and Luger, two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking.
Coe Center for the Arts - Santa Fe, NM
August 19, 2021
6-8p
Events include:
Mural unveiling with Diné x Xicana Painter, Nani Chacon
CIPX with Diné Photographer, Will Wilson
Lighting Boy Foundation Youth Group Hoop Dancers
And much more…
More Info:
www.coeartscenter.org
Field Museum - Chicago, IL
In this exhibition, learn about the history, values, and beliefs of the Apsáalooke (Ahp-SAH-luh-guh) people of the Northern Plains, also known as the Crow. Understand and honor the tradition of “counting coup”—performing acts of bravery. From 100-year-old war shields to contemporary beadwork and fashion, Apsáalooke community members tell their stories and share vibrant works of art.
More info:
www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibitions/apsaalooke-women-and-warriors
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Viewing Hours:
Mon-Sat 10-5 p.m., and Sun 12 p.m.-5 p.m.
Exhibit is included with the cost of museum admission.
eiteljorg.org/exhibitions/please-touch-the-sculptures-of-michael-naranjo/
deYoung Museum - San Francisco, CA
A small, focused exhibition, The Turkmen Storage Bag will showcase approximately nine storage bags representing five subgroups. The exhibition will take advantage of the intimate space in the T. B. Walker Textile Education Gallery.
Brighter Days
Jeffrey Gibson
Cherokee Choctaw, b. 1972
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Sept 4, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021
Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America presents works by contemporary artists working across the United States and Canada in a variety of mediums and modalities. The exhibition centers around works produced in the 21st century, highlighting the significant contribution Indigenous artists have made and continue to make to broader culture from 2000 to 2020.
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Most exhibitions do not allow visitors to touch the art on display. This exhibition encourages visitors to experience the sculpture in multi-sensory ways. Including touch, Braille, audio descriptions and video of Naranjo working.
More info:
eiteljorg.org
LACMA - Los Angeles, CA
Resnick Pavilion
Exhibition Opens: Dec 15, 2019
lacma.org/art/exhibition/fiji-art-and-life-pacific
The first substantial project on the art of Fiji to be mounted in the United States, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific will feature over 225 artworks drawn from major international collections, including the Fiji Museum, British Museum, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), the Smithsonian, and distinguished private collections.
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO
Opens June 2020
denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/revision
A strong selection of nearly 180 objects from the museum’s ancient American and Latin American art collections, hailed as one of the best in the country, will tell a visually compelling narrative about the formation of the Americas from 100 B.C. to today.
Metropolitian Museum of Art - New York, NY
Exhibition opens: Jan 29, 2020
From the first millennium, the Sahel—a vast area in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauretania, and Niger—was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled by a network of global trade routes extending across the region, the empires of Ghana (300–1200), Mali (1230–1600), Songhay (1464–1591), and Bamana (1640–1861) cultivated an enormously rich material culture.
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara will be the first exhibition of its kind to trace the legacy of those mighty states and what they produced in the visual arts.
Photo by Craig Smith
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
https://heard.org/exhibits/grand-procession/
Grand Procession celebrates an exceptional collection of dolls, also known as soft sculptures, created by Jamie Okuma (Luiseño and Shoshone-Bannock), Rhonda Holy Bear (Cheyenne River Sioux and Lakota) and three generations of Growing Thunder family members; Joyce Growing Thunder, Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty and Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Assiniboine and Sioux).
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
The exhibit features more than 75 never seen before black-and-white photos taken by Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw (1906 – 1984).
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Through Jan 12, 2020
Autry Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Norman F. Sprague, Jr. Gallery
theautry.org/exhibitions/indian-country-art-david-bradley
For the past three decades, David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa, born 1954) has been a recognized voice from Indian Country, confronting through his art questions of identity, self-determination, and self-representation, as well as definitions of “traditional” Indian art.
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Valerie-Charles Diker Fund, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, NY
Oct 4, 2018 - Oct 6, 2019
www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/art-of-native-america-diker-collection
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN
This exhibit remembers and shares the talent, perspective and legacy of the late Harry Fonseca (Maidu/Nisenan, Portuguese, Hawaiian, 1946–2006). One of the most beloved and revered contemporary Native artists of our time, Fonseca is known for the versatility and experimentation of his work. His retrospective exhibition, Harry Fonseca: The Art of Living, explores histories of Native peoples, of painting and the humanity of a life well lived.
Musée du Cinquantenaire - Brussels, Belgium
Exhibition opens Nov 23, 2018
Exhibition runs through March 24, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Boston, MA
April 14, 2018 - March 10, 2019
Bernard and Barbara Stern Shapiro Gallery (Gallery 231)
Newark Museum - Newark, NJ
March 14, 2018 - February 2019
Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Jan 7, 2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Bentonville, AR
Opening Oct 6, 2018
Through Jan 7, 2019
Autry Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Opens: May 12
Through Jan 6, 2019
National Museum of the American Indian - New York, NY
Nov 10, 2017 - Jan 6, 2019
Image: Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit, b. 1979), Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan (We will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care), 1 and 2 (video still), 2006. Digital video projection with sound. Courtesy of the artist.
