Heard Museum front lawn.
Ongoing
Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka
This exhibition features Jerry Jacka’s portraits of iconic American Indian artists paired with examples of their artwork from the museum’s collection. Experience images of artists, primarily from the American Southwest, engaged in a range of activities related to traditional cultural practices including weaving, pottery, katsina-carving and jewelry making. The exhibition also features images from his award-winning contributions to Arizona Highways magazine.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/exhibition/storyteller-jerry-jacka
Ongoing
Substance of Stars
This 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.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/exhibition/substance-of-stars
Hoop dancer competes at last year’s contest.February 15-16, 9-5 p.m.
World Championship Hoop Dance Contest
The 35th Annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest is a culmination of dozens of community members, and attracts more than 100 dancers from diverse tribal backgrounds throughout North America. Since the first World Championship hosted at the Heard Museum in 1991, this event has become a cornerstone for cultural preservation, spotlighting and continuing the profound history of hoop dancing within Indigenous communities.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/event/world-championship-hoop-dance-contest
February 27, 6:30-9 p.m.
Native Spirit Artwalk
The Native Spirit ArtWalk is a Gold Palette special event, free to the public and located throughout the Scottsdale Arts District and Downtown Scottsdale. Patrons will find celebratory exhibitions and programming in tandem with the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Scottsdale Artwalk
www.scottsdalegalleries.com
February 27-March 6
Horizons 2025
Hosted by King Galleries in Scottsdale, Horizons 2025 brings together a group of leading Native American potters for an annual show that opens a few days before the Heard Indian Fair & Market. The gallery exhibition will feature new works by 10 emerging and established artists including Al Qöyawayma, Les Namingha, Tammy Garcia, Jared Tso, Daniel Begay, Autumn Borts-Medlock, Robert Patricio, Joseph Lugo, Sergio Lugo, Dolores Curran and others.
King Galleries
www.kinggalleries.com
Mohawk artist Carrie Hill displays her sweetgrass and black ash splint baskets.March 1-2
67th Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market
The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market (IF&M) 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.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/event/fair
Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art
This exhibition explores the intersection between mid-century American art and Indigenous visual culture. It shines a light on the Indian Space Painters and their profound influence on the American art scene, as well as the contributions of the modern Native art movement.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/exhibition/space-makers-indigenous-expression-and-a-new-american-art
Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Siksika/Dutch/British), The Grass Grows Deep, 2022, giclée print, 40 x 60”. Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.Through March 2
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline
Bloodline is a survey exhibition featuring the pioneering large-scale photographic works of Canadian artist Meryl McMaster, reflecting her mixed nêhiyaw (Plains Cree)/Siksika, Dutch and British ancestry. The exhibition features 48 photographs across six bodies of work, evoking themes of memory, containment, erasure and self-determination.
Heard Museum
www.heard.org/exhibition/bloodline
March 20-23
Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week
This inaugural event—held at WestWorld, the renowned Scottsdale venue—includes art from more than 120 galleries, daily fashion shows, cultural performances, sculptural installations and other innovative programming. Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week will also have collaborations with institutions, artists, prominent collectors and off-site VIP events. Artwork at the event will include historic American fine art, American contemporary art, Western art and Native American art from living and historic artists.
WestWorld
www.scottsdaleartweek.com
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Heard Market Schedule
Best of Show Reception
Friday, February 28, 5 p.m.
Market Ticket Prices
Adults: $26
Seniors, Active Military: $22
Members: $21
Students, American Indians, Children: (6-17) $10
Children 5 and under: Free
Best of Show Reception: $100, Members $75
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Members-Only Hours: 8:30 a.m.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Heard Museum Shop Featured Artists
Nancy Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Chris Youngblood (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Jennifer Tafoya (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Joseph Lugo (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Sergio Lugo (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Dolores Purdy (Caddo Nation)
Tim Blueflint Ramel (Bad River Chippewa/Comanche)
Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, (602) 252-8840, www.heard.org
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Performances
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Dennis Bowen Sr. (Seneca)
DRUM GROUP
Thunder Springs Northern Drum Group, led by Lamon Barehand (Hopi/Pima)
ARENA DIRECTOR
Eric Manuelito (Dine)
SOUND ENGINEER
William Eaton …Wisdom Tree Music
Saturday and Sunday
11 a.m. Opening Ceremony
11:50 a.m. (tentative time) Miss Indian Arizona
12 p.m. Chi Chino Spirit Dancers (Pima/Akmiel O’odham)
1 p.m. Ed Kabotie (Hopi/Tewa)
2 p.m. Cellicion Traditional Zuni Dancers (Zuni)
3 p.m. Dinetah Dance Group (Diné)
3:50 p.m. Closing Ceremony
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Museum Programming
January 30, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Short Course: 1-of-3 – Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest
February 1, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Artful Mornings with Assistant Registrar Roshii Montaño (Diné)
February 2, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Heardlings Art Cart: Hoop Dance
February 6, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Short Course: 2-of-3 – Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest
February 6, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Curator talk – Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art
February 7, 5 to 9 p.m.
First Friday Exhibition Opening – Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka
February 12, 12 to 1 p.m.
Virtual Art Talk – Remembering Jerry Jacka with Arizona Highways’ Robert Stieve & Jeff Kida
February 13, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Curator Talk – Meryl McMaster: Bloodline
February 13, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Short Course: 3-of-3 – Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest
February 20, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Healing Power of Native Drumming
March 5, 12 to 1 p.m.
Virtual Art Talk – Best of Show Coverage: 2025 Heard Museum Indian Fair & Market
March 6, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Curator Talk – The Third Dimension: Sculptural Stories in Stone and Bronze
March 11, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Curator Talk – Adorned with Memory: Jewelry from the Basha Family Collection of American Indian Art
March 12, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Heardlings Art Cart: Jacla Necklace
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