Advancing American Indian Art
It’s Your Turn: A HOME Studio
Home is the center of life for Native peoples in the Southwest. Explore the many meanings of home and how it comes to life in clay, pigment, plants, fiber, wood, and metal by the people whose art and expression are reflections of the landscapes in which they live. This hands-on interactive exhibition space invites the whole family to learn through play! Once you explore the exhibition, HOME: Native People in the Southwest, you can expand on your learning with several fun hands-on activities based on the cultures of different tribes, designed to help deepen understanding of what "home" means to Native peoples. Activities Include:
- Creating an O’otham Calendar Stick
- Coloring and decorating an Apache saddlebag
- Creating butterfly and dragonfly ornaments
- Creating a 3D model Navajo Hogan
- Playing with large foam Legos to make a home
- Coloring bracelets based on Zuni lapidary work
- Completing puzzles based on Northwest Coast animal designs
New HOME Family Guide – Become an ART EXPLORER!
Be sure to pick up our new HOME Family Guide before visiting HOME: Native People in the Southwest, which will help you find the many animal figures and designs used by Native peoples in their art.
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience
November 18, 2000 - October 29, 2018
Few people realize that American Indians were forced by the federal government to attend residential boarding schools located hundreds of miles from home. This powerful exhibit immerses visitors into the story, which draws on first-person recollections, memorabilia and the writings and art of four generations of Indian school alumni.
It’s Your Turn: A HOME Studio
May 4, 2018 - October 7, 2018
Home is the center of life for Native peoples in the Southwest. Explore the many meanings of home and how it comes to life in clay, pigment, plants, fiber, wood, and metal by the people whose art and expression are reflections of the landscapes in which they live. This hands-on interactive exhibition space invites the ...
Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin
May 4, 2018 - September 3, 2018
Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin is a mid-career retrospective of contemporary Native Alaskan artist, Nicholas Galanin. Galanin, b. 1979 in Sitka, Alaska, is of mixed Tlingit-Unangax and non-Native ancestry. His approach to making art is conceptual, thematically addressing pertinent issues of American Indian representation and cultural critique. Galanin takes a multidisciplinary approach to art-making; his ...
Symmetry in Stone: The Jewelry of Richard I. Chavez
February 2, 2018 - August 5, 2018
For the first time in his more than 40-year career, Richard Chavez’s jewelry is featured in a retrospective exhibition. Since his early years of jewelry design and execution, Chavez has continued to painstakingly make each item by hand. An artist who enjoys designing, Chavez places an emphasis on stone selection, placement and presentation. Now, some ...
Of God and Mortal Men: Masterworks by T.C. Cannon from the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection
October 7, 2017 - April 15, 2018
The paintings by T.C. Cannon that comprise the Bloch Collection represent the finest examples by a multifaceted artist whose voice and talent resonate and inspire nearly forty years after his untimely passing. The major canvases in the Collection speak to multiple themes—his early mastery of color in Man I’d Like to Have that Pinto Pony; ...
Over the Edge: Fred Harvey at the Grand Canyon and in the Great Southwest
April 9, 2016 - January 7, 2018
Deepen your knowledge of the Grand Canyon by making this exhibit your first stop on the way! The Santa Fe Railway and its concessionaire, the Fred Harvey Company, were masters at creating a vision of the Southwest. Jointly, their ephemeral publications promoting the merits of the “Indian Southwest” number in the tens of thousands. Their ...
Black White Blue Yellow (“BWBY”)
July 29, 2017 - October 15, 2017
Opened: July 29, 2017 Closed: October 15, 2017 Black White Blue Yellow, the immersive four-channel video and sound installation by artist Steven Yazzie (Navajo/Laguna/European) returns to the museum. The exhibition explores the four sacred mountains that surround the DinĂ©/Navajo people: BLACK (North): Dib’e Nitsaa/Hesperus Mountain WHITE (East): Peak/Sisnaajini /Blanca Peak BLUE (South): Tsoodzil Mount Taylor/south YELLOW (West): DookĘĽoĘĽoosĹ‚ĂĂ/San ...
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
April 11, 2017 - September 4, 2017
This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to see firsthand masterpieces by two of the most important and recognizable artists of the 20th century. Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor for Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, making Phoenix its only North American stop on a world tour. Thirty-three works by the famed Mexican artists, from the Jacques ...
It’s Your Turn: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
April 11, 2017 - August 20, 2017
When Frida Kahlo began teaching art in 1943, she quickly attracted a small group of devoted students who were inspired by her personality and unique teaching style. When her physical condition kept her from traveling to the art school to teach, Frida held her classes at her home, La Casa Azul. She also took her ...
Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain
April 22, 2017 - July 9, 2017
Organized by The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, we are fortunate to offer this retrospective of the work of contemporary Oregon artist Rick Bartow (1946-2016). Featuring 115 drawings, paintings, prints, mixed-media works and, sculpture, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain will explore the artist’s career, from the 1970s ...
