The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture receives grant
Santa Fe, NM
A response to cultural institutions impacted by COVID-19, the Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture a $60,000 grant to assist MIAC staff and educational programming and exhibits. Funding will support two upcoming exhibitions at MIAC: Clearly Indigenous: Native visions Reimagined in Glass and Painted Reflections: Revealing the Visual Complexity of Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery. The grant also supports the development of online artist videos, a project expected to employ about 40 Native American artists.
Hollis Chitto (Isleta/Laguna/Choctaw), Beaded Cuff, 2019, Japanese seed beads, antique (pre 1939) seed beads, contemporary steel cut beads, matte gold-plated seed beads, zech cut seed beads, Swarovski crystal and brass chain.
Hecho a Mano exhibitions
Santa Fe, NM
On view from July 31 to August 23, Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe holds two solo exhibitions of new work by Hollis Chitto (Isleta/Laguna/Choctaw) and Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota). From Chitto, collectors can browse his “precise, dazzling beaded jewelry and bags” and from Patton, a new series that explores “landscape in beaded form, stitched to handmade paper the artist had other intentions for before COVID-19 shut down her studio at IAIA,” according to Hecho a Mano.
The 2020 mentor artist fellows.
NACF 2020 Fellowships
Vancouver, WA
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation has announced the 2020 Mentor Artist Fellowship awards. This regional award is open to accomplished American Indian and Alaska Native artists and culture bearers located in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Southern California, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin. This year the panel selected 11 artists to receive a $30,000 fellowship award, which supports an established Native artist to mentor an emerging Native artist in the contemporary visual arts and traditional arts. The 2020 mentor artists are, from the contemporary category: Nani Chacon, Gerald Clarke Jr., Joe Feddersen, Cliff Fragua and Brenda Mallory, and from the traditional category: Earl Atchak, Jackie Larson Bread, Ral Takook Christman, Nathan P. Jackson and April Stone.
An installation view of For A Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw. Photo courtesy Hadley Fruits Photography.
Eiteljorg Reopening
Indianapolis, IN
The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis reopened to the public in late June, and visitors can resume exploring a number of exhibitions currently on display. For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw, features more than 75 of Kiowa artist Horace Poolaw’s striking photographs of Native peoples of the Southern Plains during the mid-20th century. The exhibition continues through August 9.
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