Through September 26
All at Once: The Gift of Navajo Weaving
This exhibition features over 40 exquisite textiles from contemporary Navajo weavers. All at Once has been made possible by the generous donation of longtime Heard Museum members and supporters, Mark and Julie Dalrymple. These textiles, plus dozens more, now reside in the Heard Museum’s permanent collection. Artist statements from leading Navajo weavers are featured throughout this exhibition including Marlowe Katoney, Marilou Schultz and sisters Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete. In their own words, weavers share their sources of inspiration and the way family heritage, technique, materials and knowledge have built up over generations of learning to come together “all at once” under the weaver’s hand.
Heard Museum
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February 5-May 31
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight
Leon Polk Smith, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, has been studied and celebrated through major exhibitions, publications and scholarship over many years—and yet, a significant source of inspiration and influence on his artistic production remains largely unexplored. Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight takes visitors on the journey of how a young Smith, influenced by Native American culture in his youth in the Oklahoma Territory, became one of America’s most accomplished painters and a founding icon of midcentury modern art and design. Featuring more than 80 works of art, Hiding in Plain Sight will showcase Smith’s work, including his acclaimed Constellation series, paired with American Indian works of art including beadwork, ribbon work and dance regalia. In the words of Smith, “I grew up in the Southwest, where the colors in nature were pure and rampant, and where my Indian neighbors and relatives used color to vibrate and shock.”
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery
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February 8 & 15
Webinar: Issues and Challenges for Indigenous Artists
Explore some of the challenges faced by indigenous artists with American Indian moderators and panelists. Topics include the impact of climate change and urbanization on natural materials and how artists are adapting; cultural appropriation, including the inappropriate use of Native imagery and symbols as well as the fraudulent imitation, production, and marketing of American Indian arts and crafts by non-Native people versus cultural appreciation. Visit the fair website for details. A donation is requested, although not required, to cover the cost of the webinars and to contribute to the operational costs of the virtual market. Any net profit from the Indian Fair & Market supports the mission and programs of the Heard Museum.
Zoom webinar
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February 15-March 7
Exclusive One Time Sale of 2021 Indian Fair & Market Commemorative Shirts
Don’t miss the opportunity to order commemorative t-shirts and other items featuring a new design by award-winning Navajo digital artist, Damian Jim. Order online. Low shipping costs. Proceeds support the Indian Fair & Market. Net profit from the Fair supports the mission and programs of the Heard Museum. Merchandise prices vary.
March 18-Summer 2021
Small Wonders
The exhibition Small Wonders will include a range of small-format rings and brooches, including jewelry pieces by Liz Wallace (Navajo/Washoe/Maidu), who has been incorporating plique à jour, one of the most difficult enameling techniques, into her jewelry for two decades. Wallace’s cicada and wasp brooches join a larger group of insect and animal-themed brooches in the exhibition. Included are several butterfly brooches, from silver ones with intricate stamped designs to an 18k gold pair inset with Morenci turquoise made by Yazzie Johnson (Navajo) and Gail Bird (Santo Domingo/Laguna Pueblo). Norbert Peshlakai (Navajo) and White Buffalo (a.k.a. Mike Perez [Comanche]) worked on the same concept for a new artform. Each made a seed pot out of silver instead of the usual material, which is clay. In addition to jewelry made to wear and silver seed pots, Small Wonders also includes some intriguing silver miniatures made by Darrell Jumbo (Navajo) and Shawn Bluejacket (Shawnee). Also included is a selection of classically beautiful rings and brooches in silver with Nevada turquoise made by a range of talented artists.
Lovena Ohl Gallery, Heard Museum
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Signature Exhibition
HOME: Native People in the Southwest
Experience the Heard’s most prized masterpieces, sweeping landscapes, poetry and personal recollections on an unforgettable journey through the Southwest and the vibrant arts and cultures of Native people. Quotes and interviews with artists and Native community members are interwoven throughout the exhibition reflecting on the importance of family, community, land and languages. Join us for an exciting trip through the American Indian Southwest, from the distant past to today.
HOME Gallery, Heard Museum
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Signature Exhibition
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
This exhibition examines an important and often unknown period of American history. Beginning in the 1870s, the U.S. government aimed to assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing them in government-operated boarding schools. Children were taken from families and transported to far-away schools where all signs of “Indian-ness” were stripped away. Students were trained for servitude and many went for years without familial contact—events that still have an impact on Native communities today. Generations of students attended boarding schools before advocacy efforts—that included students and alumni—succeeded in reforming them, closing them, or offering other school choices. Boarding schools were designed to change American Indians, and they had many long-lasting impacts, but American Indians also changed the schools. This exhibition is made possible by a grant by The National Endowment for the Humanities and an anonymous donor.
East Gallery, Heard Museum
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Ongoing
American Indian Veterans National Memorial
Service and sacrifice spanning more than three centuries are honored in the first known national memorial to American Indian veterans of many conflicts. The Memorial consists of several sizable sculptures by acclaimed Native artists Chiricahua Apache sculptor Allan Houser (1914-1994) and Michael Naranjo (Santa Clara). The 10-foot sculpture Unconquered II is the last sculpture created by Houser. Naranjo is a Vietnam War veteran who suffered an injury that rendered him blind. Naranjo has been carving his meant-to-be-touched sculptures by feel ever since. Several bronze-colored panels detail the story of American Indians in conflicts from the 17th century to the 21st century and pays tribute to American Indians who received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. Museum entrance not required.
Located outside between the Heard Museum Shop and the Amphitheater
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Ongoing
Behind the Mask: Indigenous Artists Speak Out
Artists across the globe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in creative ways, through music, poetry, performance and a variety of art forms. The face masks worn to prevent spread of the virus present a blank canvas for artists seeking to bring attention to the devastating effects the virus has had on Indigenous nations and the population at large. The Heard worked with several American Indian artists who created uniquely decorated face masks for a small exhibition that went on display Oct. 10 in conjunction with the Heard’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration.
Heard Museum
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Ongoing
Grand Procession: Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
The exhibition 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). The dolls provide a figurative reference to Indigenous peoples from the Great Plains and Great Basin regions who lived in those areas during the late 19th century. Holy Bear, Okuma, and the three Growing Thunder family members embellish each doll with tiny micro-beads in intricate detail. The 23 dolls included in the exhibition represent the largest private collection of its kind.
Sandra Day O’Connor Gallery, Heard Museum
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Ongoing
Celebrate! 90 Years at the Heard Museum – 1929-2019
Signature works from the permanent collection—Hopi katsina dolls, classic Pueblo pottery, Navajo textiles, jewelry and more—will commemorate the milestones, people and events that have made the Heard Museum the American treasure and must-see destination it is today.
Kitchell Gallery, Heard Museum
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Ongoing
Through the Lens of Barry Goldwater
This exhibition features prints made from Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater’s spectacular color slide collection, which was donated to the Heard Museum by his son Michael Goldwater in 1993. This extraordinary and rare collection comprises nearly 1000 color slides and contains some of the earliest color landscape photographs of the Navajo and Hopi tribal lands, the state of Arizona, and geographical areas that have long disappeared since the creation of Lake Powell. Using primarily Kodachrome film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935, Goldwater adopted the new technology and photographed and developed color slides for his personal pleasure as well as for lectures and publications. Also included is a rare showing of computer artist Robert Silvers’ photomosaic portrait of Barry Goldwater, which he created from Goldwater’s images to form a nearly life-sized image.
Berlin Mezzanine, Heard Museum
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