Native Art Now! Developments in Contemporary Native American Art Since 1992
Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum, 2017
"The Eiteljorg Museum is excited to present Native Art Now!, which includes a traveling retrospective exhibition reviewing two decades of the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship program. Every other year since 1999, the Fellowship program has selected a new group of five Native artists and provided them grant support to further their careers. The Eiteljorg has purchased more than 200 contemporary works and received gifts of another 200 to add to its permanent collection. Thirty-nine of the most compelling pieces of contemporary art acquired by the museum are on display in Native Art Now! This fascinating exhibition will be open through Jan. 28, 2018. The Eiteljorg and WFYI also collaborated on a one-hour documentary that examines the evolution of Native contemporary art over the last 25 years, presenting personal perspectives from internationally acclaimed Native contemporary artists ... museum has also produced a scholarly companion book for Native Art Now! that examines Native expression in contemporary art since 1992" (From the publisher).
Contents: Preface, by John Vanausdall; Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Native American Art, by Kate Morris; From Vibrant Colors to Somber Tones: Painting at the Juncture of Two Centuries, by Joyce Szabo; Changing the World: The Politics of Painting, by Jennifer Complo McNutt; Critical Impressions: The Intersectional Space of Printmaking in Native Art, by Rebecca J. Dobkins; Printmaking Communities: An Artist's/Curator's Perspective, by Melanie Yazzie (Diné); Picturing a Resistance: Native North American Drawings and Graphics, by Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish); Native Sculpture: Expanding the Aesthetic Vehicle, by Margaret Archuleta (Tewa/Hispanic); Pre-to Post-(Studio): Mixed Media in Contemporary Native American Art, by Jo Ortel; The Essence of the Matter: Materiality and Mixed Media, by Kathleen Ash-Milby (Diné); A Gathering Place: Relationality in Contemporary Native Installation Art, by Janet Catherine Berlo and Jessica L. Horton; Adjacencies and Distances: Indigenous Installation Art in Canada by Lee-Ann Martin (Mohawk); Setting the Photographs Aside: Native North American Photography since 1990, by Lara M. Evans (Cherokee); Dancing our Archive: Bringing to life B. A. Haldane's Photography, by Mique'l Dangeli (Tsimshian Nation of Metlakatla, Alaska); New Visual Landscapes: Native American and First Nations Cinema by Brook Colley (Wasco/Eastern Cherokee) and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Duskegee/Diné); Everything Comes Around: Native Media by Ryan Rice (Kanien'kehá:ka); Native Performance Art: The Medium is Wide Open, by Aldona Jonaitis and Elizabeth Kalbfleisch; Being There, or Not: Native Performance Art-A Perspective, by Charloette Townsend-Gault; Author Biographies; Index
ITEM 2017.041 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Anima – Meryl McMaster
Portraits Against Amnesia, Idelia – Hulleah J. Tsinhanjinnie
Blue Eyed Chief – Jim Denomie
Four Seasons – Harry Fonseca
Neuf – Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds
Aspáalooke Roses – Wendy Red Star
Bambi Makes Some Extra Bucks Modeling at the Studio – America Meredith
Untitled – Pop Chalee
Manifold Destiny – Jim Denomie
Apache Warriors Lost from Camp – Allan Houser
Second Nature – Jeffrey Gibson
Legacy – Rick Rivet
The New Legend: The Screaming Liberal, Begging for a Referendum on Land Claims – Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Trade Canoe for Don Quixote – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Ancestral Proceassion – Margarete Bagshaw
Water Legend – Norval Morrisseau
Indian with Beer Can – Fritz Scholder
Collector #2 – T.C Cannon
Dancers and Music Rescuers with 500 Phone Calls – Bob Boyer
Ancestor – Robert Houle
Jingle Jingle – Judith Lowry
Cloud Chamber – Emmi Whitehorse
Naming Tanager – James Lavadour
Gioioso Variation II – Kay WalkingStick
The Triumph of Mischief – Kent Monkman
Gabriel's Struggle – Rick Bartow
Unraveled Pink Secret – Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Los Banderas de los Estados Unidos – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
The Abyss – Kay WalkingStick
St. Mary's Mountain – Kay WalkingStick
Hole-in-the-Day – Jim Denomie
The Discovery of Gold in California – Harry Fonseca
St. Francis of Assisi – Harry Fonseca
Behind the Great Design – Duane Slick
Flag Procession – Duane Slick
Unbury my Heart – Shelley Niro
Red Black White #1 – Jeffery Gibson
Corn Blue Room – Jolene Rickard
All is Moving – Maria Hupfield
Auto Immune Response #5 (detail) – Will Wilson
Graduating Class of 1902, Cherokee Female Seminary – Jennie Ross Cobb (Cherokee)
Damn! There goes the Neighborhood – Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
The Rebel – Shelley Niro
This Land is Mime Land – Shelley Niro
Nobody's Pet Indian – Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
Facing the Camera: James Luna – Rosalie Favell
Mustang Suite: Momma Has a Pony... (Girl Named History and Sets Her Free) – Dana Claxton
Mustang Suite: Daddy's Got a New Ride – Dana Claxton
Mustang Suite: Baby Boyz Gotta Indian Pony – Dana Claxton
Mustang Suite: Baby Girlz Gotta Mustang – Dana Claxton
The North American Iceberg – Carl Beam
Come Across II-Rainbowed Smoke – Lorenzo Clayton
I See Red: Snowman – Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Conversations with Edward S. Curtis: Acts of Commemoration – Jeffrey Thomas
Hoke-tee – Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
Fly by Night Mythology: Tonto's TV Script Revision – Larry McNeil
Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian: Camera in Face – Zig Jackson
Four Seasons – Wendy Red Star
Take a Picture with a Real Indian – James Luna
Mohawks in Beehives – Shelley Niro
Indian Man in San Francisco: Indian on Mission Bus – Zig Jackson
Aesthetically Speaking I – Anna Tsouhlarakis
Identity Genocide: Fernando Hazic Ontiveros – Tom Jones
Facing the Camera: Shan Goshorn – Rosalie Favell
Zig Jackson Taking a Picture of an Indian Taking a Picture of an Indian as Andrew Smith Protects His Soul from Theft – Will Wilson
13th Annual imageNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival catalog cover art – Terry Lau and Yigi Chang
Before Tomorrow – Marie-Hélène Consineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Kissed by Lightning – Shelley Niro
Barking Water – Sterlin Harjo
Miss Navajo – Billy Luther
"Brad Weyiouanna as Aquna" in Sikumi – Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Through the Looking Glass – Thirza Cuthand
From Cherry English – Jeff Barnaby
The Shirt – Shelley Niro
Smiling Indians – 1491s (Dallas Goldtooth, Sterlin Harjo, Migizi Pensoneau, Ryan Red Corn, Bobby Wilson)
Material Culture – Daryl Lucero
Wassechgan (Window) – Barry Ace
Prayer of Thanksgiving – Melanie Printup Hope
TimeTraveller™ Dakotas Raise Weapons – Skawennati
If History Moves At the Speed of Its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow Is Changing – Postcommodity (Raven Chacon,Cristóbal Martínez, Kade Twist and Nathan Young)
The Artifact Piece – James Luna
Buffalo Bone China – Dana Claxton
Time Traveler – Maria Hupfield
Séance – Kent Monkman
Cistemaw Iyiniw Ochi – Cheryl L'Hirondelle
Emendatio – James Luna
Mishshemong (King of the Loons) – Barry Ace
Let's Dance – Anna Tsouhlarakis
Indian Art for Sale – Neil Eustache
The People Dance: Jingle Dress #1 – Dana Claxton
Beau Dick breaking a copper on the steps of the Legislature – Wilson Duff
"Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Willie Seaweed holding up two coppers, Ba'a's (Blunden Harbour)"