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Dec
2
6:00 AM06:00

Heart of the Community: Baskets from the Basha Family Collection of American Indian Art

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.

More Info:
heard.org/exhibition/heart-of-the-community/

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Dec
24
6:00 AM06:00

Maria & Modernism

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/

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Sep
15
6:00 AM06:00

Nampeyo and the Sikyátki Revival

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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

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Mar
3
6:00 AM06:00

Native Art History is Made Here

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Exhibition Ends March 3, 2024

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

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Mar
5
6:00 AM06:00

Elegant Vessels: A Century of Southwest Silver Boxes

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/

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Feb
19
to May 21

Speaking with Light - Contemporary Indigenous Photography

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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

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Jul
17
6:00 AM06:00

ReVisión: Art in the Americas

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends July 17, 2022

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.

More Info:
www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/revision

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Apr
17
6:00 AM06:00

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends April 17

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.

More Info:
deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/jules-tavernier

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Nov
5
6:00 AM06:00

Toward the Morning Sun: Navajo Pictorial Textiles from the Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette Collection

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

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.

More Info:
heard.org/exhibits/toward-the-morning-sun

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Aug
22
6:00 AM06:00

Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Aug 22

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.

More info:
denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/each-other

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Apr
4
6:00 AM06:00

Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

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Ongoing Exhibition - Closes April 4, 2021

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

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Feb
7
6:00 AM06:00

The Turkmen Storage Bag

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Feb 7, 2021

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.

deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/turkmen-bag

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Jan
3
6:00 AM06:00

Larger Than Memory - Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America

Brighter Days Jeffrey Gibson Cherokee Choctaw, b. 1972

Brighter Days
Jeffrey Gibson
Cherokee Choctaw, b. 1972

Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Jan 3, 2021

Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Sept 4, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021

heard.org/larger-than-memory

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.

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Jul
26
6:00 AM06:00

Please Touch! - The Sculptures of Michael Naranjo

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends July 26

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

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Jul
19
6:00 AM06:00

Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends July 19

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.

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Jun
1
6:00 AM06:00

Revisión: Art in the Americas

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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.

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May
10
6:00 AM06:00

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends May 10

Metropolitian Museum of Art - New York, NY

Exhibition opens: Jan 29, 2020

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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.

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Apr
17
6:00 AM06:00

Grand Procession: Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Photo by Craig Smith

Photo by Craig Smith

Ongoing Exhibition - Ends April 17, 2020

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).

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Jan
5
6:00 AM06:00

Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Jan 5, 2020

Autry Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Norman F. Sprague, Jr. Gallery

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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.

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Oct
6
7:30 AM07:30

Art of Native America - The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Valerie-Charles Diker Fund, 2017

Ongoing Exhibition - Ends Oct 6, 2019


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

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Apr
21
6:30 AM06:30

THE LIFE AND ART OF HARRY FONSECA

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Ongoing Exhibition - Ends April 21

Eiteljorg Museum - Indianapolis, IN

eiteljorg.org/exhibitions/fonseca/

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.

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