Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Blue Eyed Chief, 2008, oil on canvas, by Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, 1955-2022). Collection of Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Museum purchase from the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art. 2009.10.1. Image courtesy the Eiteljorg Museum.

The museum’s newly redesigned Native American Galleries opened to the public in June 2022 and feature the permanent exhibition, Expressions of Life: Native Art in North America. The Eiteljorg has a special focus on artworks and cultural items by the Native peoples of the Great Lakes region, of which Indiana is a part. Well-known Native artists whose works are on view include Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation), Allan Houser (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache), Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida of Wisconsin/Haudenosaunee), Joe Feddersen (Colville Confederated Tribes), Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk) and Katrina Mitten (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma), among many others.

The Eiteljorg no longer has any Covid restrictions. Those interested in the Eiteljorg Museum can connect in several ways, through all major social media platforms, the museum’s main website, the Education Hub webpage (education.eiteljorg.org), the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship webpage (contemporaryartfellowship.eiteljorg.org) and the Quest for the West Art Show and Sale webpage at quest.eiteljorg.org. 

Major Upcoming Exhibitions

UNSETTLE/Converge: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2023 Nov. 11, 2023-Feb. 25, 2024

Acts of Faith: Religion in the American West April 20, 2024-Aug. 4, 2024

Native Art History is Made Here Through March 31, 2024

The Heard Museum courtyard in downtown Phoenix. Photo courtesy Heard Museum, 2023.

Heard Museum

2301 N. Central Avenue • Phoenix, AZ 85004 • (602) 252-8840 contact@heard.org • www.heard.org

Since its founding in 1929, the Heard Museum has grown in size and stature, gaining international recognition for the quality of its collections, world class exhibitions, educational programming and unparalleled festivals. Dedicated to advancing American Indian art, the Heard successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, along with exhibitions showcasing the beauty and vitality of both traditional and contemporary art. The Heard Museum sets the standard for collaboration with American Indian artists and tribal communities, offering visitors a distinctive perspective on the art of Native people, particularly those from the Southwest.

A view of artwork on display at the Heard Museum. Photo courtesy Heard Museum, 2023.

One of Arizona’s largest cultural organizations, the Heard seeks to inspire and educate visitors about Indigenous art and culture by presenting exhibitions, managing a library and archival resource collection and providing impactful public programs. Through original exhibitions, each accompanied by an array of educational programs, the Heard Museum aims to elevate public awareness of the vitality and often-overlooked influence of Indigenous art. Located in the heart of downtown Phoenix, the fifth-largest city in the nation, the Heard reaches a broad and diverse audience of residents and tourists from around the world. The museum occupies an 8-acre campus and features an outstanding collection of fine art and cultural objects, an extensive library and archives, a renowned shop that significantly supports American Indian artists economically, a unique café, as well as a wide range of public events that surprise and delight the community. 

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
Substance of Stars Open Now
Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael Through Jan. 2, 2024
Maria & Modernism Opens March 24, 2023

Admissions & Membership
Adults $25 at the door, $22.50 online
Seniors (65+) $20 at the door, $18 online
Students with valid ID $10 at the door, $9 online
Children (6-17) $10 at the door, $9 online
All children 5 and under, American Indians (with Tribal ID or CIB) and Heard Museum Members Free

An exterior view of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. Photo by NM True.

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo • Santa Fe, NM 87505 • (505) 476-1269 miac.info@state.nm.us • www.miaclab.org

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, tells the stories of the Native American people of the Southwest from pre-historic through contemporary times. Its changing exhibitions draw from an unparalleled collection of Native American art and material culture representing the Pueblo, Navajo, Apache and other Indigenous cultures of the Southwest. Located on Museum Hill, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture shares the beautiful Milner Plaza with the Museum of International Folk Art. Here, Now and Always, a major permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, combines the voices of living Native Americans with ancient and contemporary artifacts and interactive multimedia to tell the complex stories of the Southwest. The Buchsbaum Gallery displays works from the region’s pueblos. Five changing galleries present exhibits on subjects ranging from archaeological excavations to contemporary art. In addition, an outdoor sculpture garden offers rotating exhibits of works by Native American sculptors.

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santo Domingo Pueblo necklace. Gift of Grace Bowman, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology. HNA Section: Trade and Exchange. Credit: Photograph by Addison Doty.

Admissions & Membership
New Mexico Residents $7 (First Sundays free; every Wednesday free for NM senior residents)
Non-residents $12

A view of the façade of the New-York Historical Society in New York City.

New-York Historical Society

170 Central Park West • New York, NY 10024 • (212) 873-3400 • www.nyhistory.org

Experience 400 years of history through groundbreaking exhibitions, outstanding collections, immersive films and thought-provoking conversations among renowned historians and public figures at the New-York Historical Society, New York’s first museum. A great destination for history since 1804, the museum and the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library convey the stories of the city and nation’s diverse populations, expanding our understanding of who we are as Americans and how we came to be. Among the museum’s highlights are the Gallery of Tiffany Lamps, Picasso’s Le Tricorne, Nari Ward’s We the People, an Oval Office recreation, Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire and Keith Haring’s Pop Shop ceiling. 

New-York Historical Society, Thom, Where are the Pocumtucks (The Oxbow), 2020, oil on panel, 24 x 28”, by Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee). Photo by JSP Art Photography crop.

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
The Collection: New Conversations Ongoing
Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West Sept. 22, 2023-Feb. 25, 2024
Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers Through Jan. 28, 2024

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Polychrome Storage Jar with Appliqué, ca. 1905, ceramic, by Nampeyo of Hano (Hopi/Tewa, ca. 1860-1942). Gift of The Allan and Judith Cooke Collection.

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West

3830 N. Marshall Way • Scottsdale, AZ 85251 • (480) 686-9539 • www.scottsdalemuseumwest.org

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West is a premier cultural institution situated in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona. Opened in January 2015, the museum resides on the historic grounds of the Loloma Transit Station (N. Marshall Way and E. 1st Street). With a sprawling two-story layout encompassing 43,000 square feet, the museum showcases the art, culture and rich history spanning 19 states in the American West, Western Canada and Mexico. Former Scottsdale mayor Herb Drinkwater (1936-1997), who served from 1980 to 1996, envisioned the museum, which became a reality through the City of Scottsdale’s ownership and the dedicated operation by the Scottsdale Museum of the West, a non-profit organization established in 2007. 

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Bracelet, silver, turquoise, lapis, coral, jet, jade and mother-of-pearl, by Carl and Irene Clark (Diné/Navajo). Gift to Western Spirit, Collection of Richard A. Gates.

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
Decades: Willy Matthews Oct.10, 2023-April 28, 2024
Inner Light: The Art of Tom Gilleon Jan. 16, 2024-Aug. 2024
Carl Roters/Winold Reiss June 11, 2024-Jan. 2025

A view of the exhibition California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv at the Wheelwright Museum. Credit: Tia collection. Photo by Addison Doty.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

704 Camino Lejo • Santa Fe, NM 87505 • (505) 982-4636 (800) 607-4636 • info@wheelwright.org  •  www.wheelwright.org

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is New Mexico’s oldest non-profit museum, and the first in the city of Santa Fe to present contemporary Native American art. Founded in 1937, it has built a rich collection that spans historic and contemporary Native American art. Its collections are strong in Navajo and Pueblo jewelry, works on paper, sculpture, weaving, folk art and ceramics. The museum’s archives are extensive and include documents and records that reflect its history and founding, in addition to works by artists, researchers and photographers. With the support of the Mellon Foundation, the Wheelwright is working to digitize this significant archive and make it more accessible.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, stamped spiral silver bracelet set with turquoise, 1970, by Kenneth Begay (Navajo, 1912-1977). 2022.03.020. Courtesy the Wheelwright Museum. Photo by Ben Calabaza.

The museum has a rich history of solo works by contemporary Native artists, though in its permanent gallery—which features more 700 pieces of Navajo and Pueblo jewelry—the Wheelwright also honors those artists whose names have not yet been recorded. Since the 1970s, the museum has embarked on an ambitious series of exhibitions by emerging artists including substantial one-person exhibitions featuring Tony Abeyta (Navajo/Diné), Arthur Amiotte (Lakota), Clifford Beck (Navajo/Diné), T. C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo), Darren Vigil Gray (Jicarilla Apache/Kiowa Apache), Benjamin Harjo Jr. (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole), Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), Pablita Velarde (Santa Clara Pueblo) and many others.

Current exhibitions California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv and Always in Relation feature constellations of artists important to the field of fine art and jewelry making including: Kenneth Begay (Navajo/Diné), Charles Loloma (Hopi), Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe), Rick Bartow (Mad River band of the Wiyot Tribe), Frank Day (Maidu/Konkaw) and Norbert Peshlakai (Navajo/Diné), to name a few. 

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
Master Glass: The Collaborative Spirit of Tony Jojola November 2023
Fear No Art – The Works of Marcus Amerman February 2024

Columbia River Plateau maker, Man’s Beaded Vest, ca. 1910, glass beads, cloth and thread, 22 x 17”. Collection of Maryhill Museum of Art.

Maryhill Museum of Art

35 Maryhill Museum Drive • Goldendale, WA 98620 (509) 773-3733 • www.maryhillmuseum.org

Maryhill Museum of Art is housed in an historic Beaux Arts mansion situated high above the Columbia River in south central Washington state. The museum’s Indigenous Peoples of North America Gallery contains material from throughout Native North America, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous basketry and the Columbia River Plateau region.

Recent changing exhibitions have featured the work of American classical realist (Boston School) painters and contemporary Indigenous artists. The museum collections contain works by Rick Bartow, Joe Feddersen, Lillian Pitt, Cara Romero, Jackie Larson Bread and Maynard Lavadour. These periodically rotate onto view. Diverse aspects of the museum collection—including the Théâtre de la Mode, American classical realist art and Orthodox icons—are profiled in online exhibitions on the museum’s website.

Maryhill’s outdoor William and Catherine Dickson Sculpture Park features more than a dozen large works by Northwest artists. The museum’s Stonehenge Memorial—a concrete replica of the original on Salisbury Plain—is located nearby. It was built by institutional founder Sam Hill to memorialize local men who died in World War I. The museum’s 5,300-acre property is located about 100 miles east of Portland, Oregon, at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge and within hailing distance of multiple vineyards and wineries.

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
The Columbia River: Wallula to the Sea March 15-Nov. 15, 2024
King Salmon: Contemporary Relief Prints March 15-Nov. 15, 2024

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Gagaan Awutáawu Yéil (Raven Steals the Sun), blown, hot-sculpted and sand-carved glass, 9½ x 26 x 9½”, by Preston Singletary (Tlingit). Made at the Museum of Glass in 2008. Collection of Museum of Glass, Tacoma, gift of the artist. Photo by Russell Johnson.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

415 Couch Drive • Oklahoma City, OK 73102 • (405) 236-3100 • info@okcmoa.com • www.okcmoa.com

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is one of the leading arts institutions in the region. It presents a dynamic range of exhibitions organized from prestigious museums around the world. The museum’s own diverse collection features highlights from North America, Europe and Asia, with particular strengths in American art and post-war abstraction. The permanent collection also boasts one of the world’s largest public collections of Dale Chihuly glass, a major collection of photography by Brett Weston and the definitive museum collection of works by the Washington Color painter Paul Reed. The museum’s renowned Samuel Roberts Noble Theater screens the finest international, independent, documentary and classic films. Amenities include the Museum Store and the Roof Terrace. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. The museum serves more than 125,000 visitors annually from all 50 states and 30 foreign countries. 

Major Upcoming Exhibitions
Chihuly Then and Now: The Collection at Twenty Through June 23, 2024
Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight Nov. 11, 2023-April 28, 2024
Edith Head: The Golden Age of Hollywood Costume Design June 22, 2024-Sept. 29, 2024

Admissions & Membership
Members Free
Children (17 and under) Free
Adults $21.95
Seniors (62 and up), College students $19.95
Active-duty Military Free

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