The Heard Museum Calendar

A comprehensive calendar of events at the Heard Museum, including the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market.

Heard Museum entrance.

Ongoing
The North Star Changes: Works by Brenda Mallory
This exhibition features sculptures that Brenda Mallory has made using reclaimed and found objects, some taking the form of large-scale installations. Mallory describes her process as bricolage—something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Mallory notes, “The idea that an object has more than one use, more than one life in it, is what appeals to me.”
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Ongoing
Heart of the Community: Baskets from the Basha Family Collection of American Indian Art
The exhibition title recognizes Eddie Basha’s dedication to the good of his community and his appreciation of American Indian communities of which art is an integral part. Many of the baskets were woven in the early decades of the 20th century in Arizona. They come from a time when weavers were fully exploring their art form and recognizing change. The art of Western Apache, Yavapai and Akimel O’odham weavers will be featured.
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Exhibition display for Substance of Stars.Ongoing
Substance of Stars
The project is the culmination of a three-year collaboration with four Indigenous communities, thanks to a grant from Lilly Endowment, which fosters the study of world religions. The exhibition examines the collection of the Heard Museum from Indigenous perspectives, across a wide variety of media and time periods. It incorporates Indigenous languages, sky knowledge, and spiritual values, and includes elements of the origin stories that form Native identities.
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Ongoing
Grand Procession: Contemporary Plains Indian Dolls from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
This exhibition celebrates an exceptional collection of dolls, also known as soft sculptures, created by Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock), Rhonda Holy Bear (Cheyenne River Sioux/Lakota) and three generations of Growing Thunder family members: Joyce Growing Thunder, Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty and Jessa Rae Growing Thunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine/Sioux (Nakoda/Dakota)).
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Ongoing
Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Away From Home 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 faraway 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.
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T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo, 1946-1978), Two Guns Arikara, 1977, woodcut print, ed. 56 of 200. Gift of Christy Vezolles in memory of Gil Waldman.

Ongoing
Indeterminate Beauty
Indeterminate Beauty presents a brief yet bold selection of works by influential Kiowa/Caddo artist T.C. Cannon. His artistic motivations were ignited by the sociopolitical atmosphere of America during the mid-20th century and illustrated by saturated colors juxtaposed with subjects that examine identity. The exhibition features five woodcut prints of Cannon’s oeuvre, acquired through a gift in memory of Gil Waldman.
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February 2, 5-9 p.m.
February First Friday at the Heard
A free evening of Heard Museum programming and exhibitions with exciting guests, art activities and more.
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Opening February 24
Maria & Modernism
This exhibition features Maria Martinez (1887-1980), the San Ildefonso Pueblo ceramicist who became one of the most widely celebrated artists of her time and whose work continues to influence new generations of artists. She has been conspicuously excluded from the discourse on American modernism. To correct this, Maria & Modernism will present examples of her pottery that substantiate the aesthetic and conceptual affinities of her work with major artistic and creative movements of her time, including decorative and industrial design, and examine her ongoing influence on 21st-century artists.
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Hoop dancers compete for the top title.February 17-18, 9-5 p.m.
World Championship Hoop Dance Contest
For three decades, the world’s most talented hoop dancers have come to the Heard Museum to compete in this thrilling annual competition to secure the title of World Champion Hoop Dancer.
The art of hoop dance honors cultural traditions shared by multiple Indigenous communities. With roots in healing ceremonies, traditions and practices, today hoop dance is shared as an artistic expression to celebrate and honor Indigenous traditions throughout the United States and Canada. For the 2024 event, dancers will be judged on a slate of five skills: precision, timing/rhythm, showmanship, creativity and speed. Contestants compete in one of five divisions: Tiny Tots (age 5 and younger), Youth (6-12), Teen (13-17), Adult (18-39) and Senior (40 and older). Cash prizes totaling $25,000 are awarded to winners in each division.
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March 2-3
66th Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market
The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market is one of the largest American Indian art markets in the world and draws nearly 15,000 visitors and more than 600 of the nation’s most preeminent American Indian artists. Attendees can meet and purchase art directly from multiple generations of artists working in a multitude of different art genres.
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Heard Market Schedule

Best of Show Reception March 1, 5-8 p.m.

Market Ticket Prices

Adults: $25 Seniors, Active Military: $22

Members: $20 Students, American Indians, Children (6-17): $10

Children (5 and under): Free EXCEPTION: All children 12 and under are free on Sunday Best of Show Reception: $100 (Members: $75)

Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market

Saturday, March 2, 2024 Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Members Only Opening: 8:30 a.m.)

Sunday, March 3, 2024 Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Members Only Opening: 8:30 a.m.)

Heard Museum Shop Featured Artists

Ray Tracey (Navajo) Victoria Adams (Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho) Karen Clarkson (Chocktaw) Jackie Larson Bread (Blackfoot) Tim Blueflint Ramel (Bad River Chippewa/Comanche) Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) Ivan Howard (Navajo)

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Performer at the 2023 Indian Market.