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.
Sonwai: The Jewelry of Verma Nequatewa
October 5, 2018 - March 10, 2019
Verma Nequatewa (Hopi, b. 1949) began an apprenticeship with her uncle Charles Loloma around 1966. Nequatewa has signed her distinctive work with the Hopi feminine word for beauty, Sonwai, since 1989. It complements her uncle’s name, which was the masculine word with the same meaning. Nequatewa worked with her uncle for more than twenty years. ...
Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit
October 29, 2018 - February 3, 2019
Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit explores the surprising and little-known story of how Inuit people and culture inspired one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Henri Matisse. Included in the exhibition are works by Matisse that have not been publicly shown in the United States, and reunited dozens of stunning Yup’ik (Alaskan ...
Awa Tsireh: Pueblo Painter and Metalsmith
November 3, 2017 - January 6, 2019
This exhibit explores the paintings and metalworks of San Ildefonso artist Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal). Born at San Ildefonso Pueblo in 1898, Awa Tsireh began his painting career in 1917 and by the early 1920s his work was exhibited nationally. Although he received accolades for his paintings throughout his lifetime, less is known about Awa ...
Cheyenne Randall: The Mural Project
February 2, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Cheyenne River Sioux artist, Cheyenne Randall, b. 1978, investigates identity and the idea of celebrity obsession and apotheosis in his work. Working in digital photography, Photoshop, paint, and wheat paste installation, the artist delves into constructed notions of individuality and the semiotics of representation, while concurrently questioning subcultural practices such as tattooing and graffiti, examining ...
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 ...
Artistic Excellence: The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Celebrates 60 Years
January 12, 2018 - September 9, 2018
Opened Jan. 12, 2018 For the past 60 years, the Heard Museum Guild has worked with superb American Indian artists to present an annual event at the museum that gives visitors an opportunity to meet with the artists and learn how they create their work. Charles Loloma, Fred Kabotie, Maria Martinez, Adam and Santana Martinez, ...
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; ...
