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Multi-faceted artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. Photo by Brendan George Ko.

Passage
Mesa, AZ
The Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona presents a site-specific exhibition, titled Passage, centered around multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota). The centerpiece of the show is Luger’s Something to Hold Onto from his Counting Coup series and features over 7,000 1-inch unfired clay beads, each representing a life lost along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last 30 years. Accompanying Luger’s piece is a large-scale floor by Tohono O’odham artists Thomas “Breeze” Marcus and Dwayne Manuel, and additional accompanying works by other Native American artists. The exhibition will run from May 14 to August 6.

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Rahim Fortune (Chickasaw), Untitled 001 (Clarita, Oklahoma), 2009, digital C-print. Courtesy the artist.

From the Limitations of Now
Tulsa, OK
From the Limitations of Now showcases the works of both local artists and artists working across the country, providing a lens through which to examine the country’s past and future. Held at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, the show draws upon the words of famed Oklahoma author Ralph Ellison: “We are able to free ourselves from the limitations of today.” The show includes a wide range of works, from tapestries and beadwork, to paintings, photography and video, and will be on view through September 5.

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Catherine Blackburn is one of five artists selected for this year’s Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. Photo by David Stobbe.

2021 Eiteljorg Fellowship
Indianapolis, IN
Five Native American and First Nations artists have been selected for the 2021 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship: Anita Fields, Catherine Blackburn, Sonny Assu, Steven Yazzie and Athena LaTocha. Their works will be on view at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art during an exhibition beginning this November. Each Fellowship artist receives a $25,000 unrestricted grant, and the museum expects to purchase more than $100,000 of their artworks to add to its collection of contemporary Native American art.

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Laura J. Allen, curator of Native American art at Montclair Art Museum.

Montclair Art Museum appoints curator of Native art
Montclair, NJ
Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey recently announced the appointment of Laura J. Allen, as its new curator of Native American art. Allen brings 16 years of museum experience to this role, having served as curatorial associate for the Northwest Coast Hall renovation at the American Museum of Natural History from 2017 to 2018, where she facilitated the project’s Indigenous partnerships, among other endeavors.