The Heard Museum presents a panel discussion with artist Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) and Barbara Harjo, wife of artist Benjamin Harjo (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole), accompanied by scholar Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi/Choctaw) and moderated by curator Christopher Green.
Space Makers 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.
About the Panelists:
Linda Lomahaftewa
Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi-Choctaw) is a Santa Fe-based artist and educator specializing in painting, printmaking, and mixed media. A teacher at IAIA, she has exhibited internationally and won the Rauschenberg Foundation’s Power of Art Award. Lomahaftewa holds a BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Barbara Harjo
Barbara Harjo, wife of the late artist Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole), built her career managing the business end of Ben’s artistic practice for 40+ years, working for the Cherokee Nation, serving as the Marketing Director for First American Art magazine, and holding the position of first clerk for the Oklahoma State Supreme Court.
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Choctaw/Hopi) is Curator of Collections at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. With over 30 years of experience in Native American art, she holds a BFA from the University of Arizona and has curated numerous exhibitions at MoCNA, advancing contemporary Indigenous art.
Christopher T. Green
Christopher T. Green is an art historian and writer specializing in modern and contemporary Native art, global Indigenous representation, and Northwest Coast Native art. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History from CUNY and has researched contemporary Tlingit art and its ties to Euro-American modernism.
Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
