Native American Heritage Month @ Taft: Arts

A Google Arts and Culture exhibition. Film, fashion, comedy, photography: there isn’t a single creative medium that Native American culture hasn’t influenced. Here are 5 artists you should know more about: Radmilla Cody (1975-present; Navajo), Joan Hill (1930-present; Muskogee Creek), Lloyd Kiva New (1916-2002; Cherokee), Supaman (1974-present; Crow),Maria Tallchief (1925-2013; Osage).

The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe is the country’s only museum for exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists. MoCNA is dedicated solely to advancing the scholarship, discourse, and interpretation of contemporary Native art for regional, national, and international audiences—as such, it stewards over 10,000 Contemporary Indigenous artworks (created 1962 to present).

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a premier repository of Native art and material culture and tells the stories of the people of the Southwest from pre-history through contemporary art.

The development of the Native American art of painting, carving, and basket-making differed
depending on the environment and type of subsistence of each Indian tribe. This site covers painting, pottery, sand painting, and the arts of the Apache, Cherokee, Hopi, Lakota, Navajo, Santo Domingo, and Zuni tribal nations.

PEM houses among the oldest ongoing collections of Native American art in the Western hemisphere, commencing with the museum’s founding in 1799 and continuing through today. Spanning 10,000 years of Indigenous visual expression in the Americas, these works cross boundaries of region, period, and medium, and emphasize the continuum of creativity and character of change that undergirds Native American art. This distinguished collection is a vital testament to thousands of individual artists from hundreds of distinct Native nations, each with its own history, language, and artistic expressions.