![]() ![]() I’m confident you’ll find something you love on B. I’ve purchased some of their cloth face masks – the proceeds of which benefit Native communities suffering from COVID-19. Her clothing functions as wearable art that demonstrates the power and resilience of Native women and matrilineal cultural systems. Her website features indigenously designed goods as well as her own collections – inspired by Apsáalooke traditions, like elk tooth dresses and ribbon skirts. Her work is intimately connected with her social justice work in Indian Country. Yellowtail, a fashion brand launched in 2015. Check out his website to browse some of the great prints and stickers he has for sale.īethany Yellowtail (Apsáalooke and Northern Cheyenne) is the brilliant designer behind B. Echo-Hawk was also the subject of a recent episode of American Masters, the PBS documentary series. To learn more about winter counts, visit the display in Alcoa Hall featuring the Carnegie Winter Count by Dr. ![]() His eye-catching and exciting work plays with indigenizing popular culture and addressing environmental racism while reinterpreting Plains Indian oral history and record keeping traditions, like winter counts, through his live painting performances. Image credit: Ryan Redcornīunky Echo-Hawk (Pawnee and Yakima) is a painter and designer who has worked with companies such as Nike and Pendleton to design Plains Indian inspired products and fundraise for Native organizations. Many of them also have great items for sale on their websites – just in time to find some special holiday gifts!īunky Echo-Hawk. Featured below are just a few of the artists whose work is connected to the cultural forms and belongings on display in Alcoa Hall. Better yet, buy directly from Native artists who are demonstrating how traditional knowledge and ways of making are thriving in the 21 st century. Instead of coopting from indigenous cultures, shop from companies that employ Native designers. ![]() Because of these complicated and often violent histories, it is important that, most of us, as descendants of settlers, think critically about Native inspired designs in the objects or clothing we buy. Their work can therefore be understood as acts of survivance.Ĭontemporary American Indian artists are still grappling with the politics of representation, regularly fighting stereotypes while also working to preserve the cultural knowledge that the settler state tried to destroy through forced assimilation. ![]() These artists, whose creations have been collected and exhibited by major museums across the country, also view their art as a form of resistance. Artists like Fritz Scholder (Luiseno), Kevin Red Star (Apsáalooke), Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyanne and Arapaho), and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish) continued (and continue) to challenge the mythology of the Indian in American imaginary. Later in the century, Native artists continued to define the American art scene. The term denotes a response to the attempted cultural and physical genocide of Native peoples in the United States that is beyond simple survival, but involves acts of resistance that declare a dynamic presence – often combining traditional ways of knowing with contemporary technologies that are specific to an individual or tribal affiliation. Survivance, a concept developed by cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, is an expression of active presence. Despite having their contributions and innovations undercut or co-opted by Euro-American artists and collectors, Native artists continued to produce artwork as acts of survivance. These artists, along with other American Indian artists and artisans helped establish the US as a growing center of modernism in competition with Europe. Artists such as Awa Tsireh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), the members of the Kiowa Five (Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke and Lois Smoky), Angel De Cora (Ho-Chunk), and potter Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) influenced the growing trends of abstraction and patterning that defined modernist painting in the United States. In the early 20 th century, Indian artists were instrumental in the formation of American modernism. This contemplation reveals the influence American Indian artists have exerted and continue to exert on the American art world. Lately, I’ve been thinking about many of the American Indian belongings we have on display in Alcoa Hall, and contemporary art. Work to link our collections and exhibitions to the present moment is vital.Īs an art historian who studies modern and contemporary art, I often think about the connections over time and space between historic objects. Behind the scenes, however, CMNH is a flurry of active research and knowledge production. Museum exhibitions, especially those featuring cultural items, can sometimes give the impression of cultures or peoples frozen in time. ![]()
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