AMERICAN INDIAN ART
Articles, Reviews, Artists' Bios
NOTE: A few of these articles may be illustrated but most of them are all or mostly text for explanations and reference.
Children of Clay: A Family of Pueblo Potters,--Hypertext review-essay of 3 books -- one for grades 3-8, one for younger children ages 5-8, and one for adults of any age -- about the Swentzell-Naranjo family of Santa Clara Tano-Tewa potters and ceramic sculptors. Links to rlevant historical, cultural, art, and geographic info web sites that are part of the essay make the essay itself a self-directed research project for students in grades 3-8--for social studies, multicultural learning, history, art. Because native pottery is primarily a women's craft (and modern Native ceramic fine artists have mainly been women of this tradition), it's an especially involving research project for girls, but should be appealing to anyone who's ever had fun playing around with clay, and that's just about all of us in our early years.
- Indian Artist Magazine [No longer published] --Contemporary Native American Art, Music, Literature, Photography, Film, Theater & Dance. Highly-illustrated periodical.
- The Native American Fine Art Movement Resource Guide--On-line book published by Heard Museum) by Margaret Archuleta et al, intended as a resource for teachers. Main focus is on serveral period of painting. On-line illustrations (too few!) are in a separate catalog section. Teachers (1 per school) may send for a slide set, free, while supplies (made available through a grant) last.
- WINGSPREAD ART OF NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST--Homepage of Wingspread, an information database for collectors of New Mexican and Arizonan art. Few pictures are included, mostly articles and a galleries -- artists -- types of art lookup database.
- WINGSPREAD: FIRST STORYTELLER--The making of the first Pueblo storyteller doll.
- WINGSPREAD: INDIAN SYMBOLS--Shapes and meanings of common symbols in various forms of southwestern art (mainly rugs, pottery and jewelry) explained.
- WINGSPREAD: Indigenous Perspectives--Article focuses on changes in art mainly in the southwest brought about by more Indian control in marketing, for example Navajo rugs as identified by artist-weaver name now not merely pattern, and more exploratory artistic treatment, rather than pattern control imposed by traders. Artists also deal more directly (with galleries), rather than through traders.
- WINGSPREAD: TRADITIONAL NATIVE ART--Article by creators of the hardcopy and on-line Collector magazine, focus is art of Pueblo and Navajo people of New Mexico and Arizona.
- Allan Houser Estate--Compound and sculpture garden for the late sculptor. Is this at the Heard Museum? Houser's tribe? Just a description, no pix. An early painting by Houser is on-line in the Native Fine Arts curriculum guide's illustrations section.
- Between Two Worlds--Al Quoyama Article (Science/Indian Identity)--In this thoughtful essay, a Hopi engineer-artist describes what he sees as a philosophical and social difference between WestCiv science and what should be the Indian model.
- Nomadics Tipi Makers--Sell a number of books by and about Native people, artists.
- Nora Naranjo-Morse--An essay that prefaces her book of poetry and photos of her scupture Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay, describing the difficulties she had getting started both as an unconventional artist and as a woman artist, who creates new traditions of clay sculpture while following the older ones that as a Santa Clara daughter of a potter, she learned while growing up.
- Paul LaRose: Unity prayer--Well-known maker of dance regalia offers this prayer for all-native unity.
- U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell--Northern Cheyenne, only Indian now in Congress (and probably the only artist too) was a well-known silversmith before entering politics. This is his bio, prepared for him by Powersource Gallery.
- Sisseton Wahpeton Tekakwitha Fine Arts Center--Article about tribal art center founded in old Catholic school, collection curated by the late Paul War Cloud
- Paul War Cloud.--Article about self-taught Sisseton-Wahpeton artist (d. 1973) who helped found tribal art museum.
- Marsha Gomez--PeaceNet article about Indigenous woman artist's Madre del Mundo sculpture placed on Shoshone land stolen for a missile test site.
- Lee Marmon, Laguna, Photographer--Photos by and essay bout him.
- Oren Lyons: The Faithkeeper--Biography and philosophy of this Onondaga spiritual man, who has also been active long in the cause of native rights and sovereignty. as well as being a well-known artist, writer and editor.
- Paha Sapa--Book about the spiritual and historical meanings of the Black Hills to the Lakota people -- and how this is degraded by the huge South Dakota tourist attraction rock sculptures of past U.S. Presidents..
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