The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Photo by Chris Murray

 

Left: High Desert Museum in Bend, Lil Fat Guys, waxed linen basket, 2012, by Pat Courtney Gold (Wasco, 1939-2022).  Right: High Desert Museum in Bend, Coyote and Lil Brother, 2025, mixed media, by RYAN! Feddersen (Colville).

High Desert Museum
59800 South Highway 97, Bend, OR 97702 • (541) 382-4754 info@highdesertmuseum.org • www.highdesertmuseum.org
The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, invites visitors to explore the art, wildlife and history of the region through immersive, hands-on exhibitions. From its permanent exhibitions to nine changing exhibits each year, the museum has hosted art from several renowned Indigenous artists, including Jefferson Greene (Warm Springs), Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga Beaver Clan), Joe Feddersen (Colville), Natalie Kirk (Warm Springs), Ellen Taylor (Umatilla) and more. Each summer, the museum’s Art in the West exhibition and auction showcases regional and national talent. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
Coyote Encounters: Art Inspired by a Storied Earth
Opens October 31, 2026
Quills Out! A Porcupine Adventure
Opens November 14, 2026
Dime Store Stories: Paintings by Fort Guerin

Opens November 21, 2026

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The entrance to the Museum of Kansas City in Missouri.

 

Left: An installation view of Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art at the Museum of Kansas City.  Right: An installation view of Voices Now.

Museum of Kansas City 
3218 Gladstone Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64123 (816) 702-7700 • www.themuseumofkansascity.com
The Museum of Kansas City is a city museum that embraces the humanities to explore the past, present and future of Kansas City. The museum is committed to weaving together vibrant stories, perspectives and voices into evolving collections, exhibitions and programs that elevate our shared history, cultural heritage and human experiences.

Containing thousands of objects, the historical collections of the Museum of Kansas City offer a rich sampling of Kansas City’s local and regional history while representing the daily lives of past generations, from the everyday to the extravagant. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
Homeland: The Osage in Missouri
Through February 21, 2027
Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art
Through February 21, 2027
Connecting Cultures Across Kansas City: The Hand-in-Hand Folk Art Collection
Through February 21, 2027

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The exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.

 

National Museum of the American Indian, taxi sculpture, 2014, Lima, Peru, pottery, paint, 2 x 2 x 3 in., by Gedion Caseo Fernandez (Quechua).

National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004 • americanIndian.si.edu
In partnership with Native peoples and their allies, the National Museum of the American Indian fosters a richer shared human experience through a more informed understanding of Native peoples.

The museum has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world, representing more than 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. The collection is composed of more than 800,000 objects and photographs and more than 500,000 digitized images, films and other media documenting Native communities, events and organizations. Artists featured in recent exhibitions include Preston Singletary, Shelley Niro, Jeffrey Gibson, Rose B. Simpson and Dyani White Hawk. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
Mighty Miniatures
November 21, 2026-August 20, 2027

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Left: Philbrook Art & Gardens, Sunset in Memoriam, 1946, oil on board, 177/8 x 24 in., by Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (Citizen Band Potawatomi/Muscogee (Creek), 1912-1989). Philbrook Art & Gardens, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gift of Clark Field, 1946.45.5. © Minisa Crumbo Halsey.  Right: Philbrook Art & Gardens, Eternal Return, 2014, maple, wool, glass and plastic beads, acrylic yarn, deer rawhide, mohair, quartz crystals, tin and copper jingles, steel and brass studs, artificial sinew, nylon thread, metal wire, steel rods, and found railroad tie (pine), 84½ x 24 x 11 in., by Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee). Philbrook Art & Gardens, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Museum purchase, with funds donated by Don and Rita Newman, 2014.4 a,b. © Jeffrey Gibson.

 

Philbrook Art & Gardens, Raven and Sun, 1966, cedar, paint and abalone shell, 2713/16 x 36 in., by Lawney Reyes (Colville). Philbrook Art & Gardens, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Museum purchase, 1967.12. © Lawney Reyes.

Philbrook Art & Gardens
2727 S. Rockford Road, Tulsa, OK 74114 • (918) 749-7941 • www.philbrook.org
From the pottery designs of the Southwest and the beaded material culture of the Plains to the intricate basketry of the Southeast and the formline design of the Pacific Northwest, each tribe has a unique, region-specific visual language based upon their tribe’s world views. These artistic expressions often incorporate distinguishing patterns, geometric shapes and abstract representations of both the physical and spiritual worlds.

Everything We Dream: Native Abstraction at the Philbrook braids together a diversity of artworks to visually examine Native American arts practices and how they shaped modern and contemporary Native Abstraction. Centering works of pottery, basketry, jewelry and other material culture that implements geometric forms and patterns, the gallery expands out into contemporary works that share the trajectory of Native abstraction.

The dynamic, abstracted works in this gallery combine to tell a fluid story that reveals a shared hope extending across time—one of cultural continuance where Native artists maintain autonomy over their artistry and their influence in the broader art world is celebrated. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
Everything We Dream: Native Abstraction
Through January 3, 2027

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Left; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Daughter of the Deer, 2026, acrylic on birch panel, by Brooke Waldron (Seaconke Wampanoag/Narragansett). Photo by Jourdan Fanning.   Right: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, The Gift of Corn, 2023, soap stone, cedar, wampum, and deer hide, by Joshua Carter (Mashantucket Pequot). Photo by Scott Foster. 

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320 (860) 443-2545 • www.lymanallyn.org
The Land You Stand On, a visionary exhibition centering Indigenous expression beyond geographic and cultural borders, brings together work by 11 award-winning Indigenous artists. Focusing on the concept of place-based belonging, the exhibition connects with the histories and experiences of Indigenous and Native communities in the Northeast and beyond, inviting reflection on how land shapes art, identity, memory and community. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
The Land You Stand On
Through January 24, 2027

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Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Badger Butte Dusk, 2003, oil on canvas, by Dan Namingha (Hopi-Tewa). Wheelwright Museum Collection. Photo by Addison Doty.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 982-4636 • wheelwright.org
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is hosting the exhibition Outburst: Native American Art after Vietnam, starting at the end of October. The show poses a provocative question: Can we accurately interpret the popularity and impact of contemporary Native American art from the 1970s without acknowledging the experiences of Native American veteran artists returning from the Vietnam War?

The Vietnam War presents a multifaceted picture, with the war subject to revisionism even during the conflict, due to the human cost on all sides. In the popular imagination, it generates a series of compelling if unsettling associations, from Maya Lin to Andy Warhol, Jimi Hendrix to Francis Ford Coppola. More than 42,000 Native Americans served, proportionally three times more than the general population. Yet very little of the extensive literature that has developed around the Vietnam War focuses on the experiences, perspectives or testimonies of Native veterans. Outburst will trace these nuanced interconnections through the artworks that characterize this period. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
Outburst: Native American Art after Vietnam
October 30, 2026-April 17, 2027

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A view of the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

Weisman Art Museum
333 E. River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455 • (612) 625-9494 • waminfo@umn.edu • wam.umn.edu
‘Merciless’: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, organized by Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, is a commemoration and celebration of Indigenous resistance, curated by Dr. Kendra Greendeer.

The exhibition features both indoor and outdoor installations. The artworks emphasize Indigenous resilience and an enduring bond with this place known as Bde Óta Othúnwe, or Minneapolis. The featured artists—Natchez Beaulieu, Marlena Myles and Missy Whiteman—critically re-examine an immutable Indigenous history.

Greendeer says the exhibition’s title “is drawn directly from the section of the Declaration of Independence regarding Indigenous populations, which states: ‘He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.’” Throughout the preceding 250 years, Indigenous communities have demonstrated remarkable persistence; these artistic acts of resilience are intended to fortify their ongoing connection to the land well beyond the semiquincentennial. 

Upcoming Exhibitions
‘Merciless’: Indigenous Lands Since 1776
September 26, 2026-May 23, 2027

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