Innholdsfortegnelse for June-July 2024/No. 51 i Native American Art Magazine

Welcome to the June/July issue of Native American Art Magazine! This is a very special issue on many fronts. First, it contains our annual pottery special section. Through the centuries, Native American pottery has served as art and function. It was traded, gifted, decorated and part of every facet of Native American life. Our pottery section is 33 pages. It starts on Page 61 and ends with a buyer’s guide to help you add to your collection as you navigate the world of pottery. Our section includes coverage of museums, galleries and the potters who are creating artwork in the medium today. We love when this issue comes together each year as it is full of opportunity for you, our readers and collectors. Our podcast, the American Art Collective, is…

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“The whale is a metaphor for indigeneity.” So says Courtney Leonard, a multimedia installation artist, ceramicist, filmmaker and enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation on Long Island. How so? “Because more people care about a whale than they will Indigenous people,” Leonard says. She has a point. “Save the Whales” was a global rallying cry decades before MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) became a recognized acronym outside Indigenous communities or “truth and reconciliation” regarding Canada’s and the United States’ legacy of Indian boarding schools gained traction. “Nobody really knows who Shinnecock people were or what we cared about—our voice,” Leonard says. The Shinnecock did not receive federal recognition as a tribe until 2010. “People care about a whale, but they don’t care about Indigenous coastal people that they’re…

Santa Clara artist Joseph Lugo started selling his pottery at 10 years old. By the time he was 18 years old, he had been to Santa Fe Indian Market eight times. But then the rest of his life started calling to him. “I went to college. Four years there, then three years at law school. I basically didn’t touch any clay for all of that time,” Lugo says, admitting that he wanted to see what else life had in store for him. Pottery, he adds, was part of his family and it loomed so large over him it could blot out the sun. His mother, after all, is Nancy Youngblood, one of the best potters in the country, and his great-grandmother is Margaret Tafoya, the famous matriarch of Santa Clara…

Acoma Pueblo potter Robert Patricio says, “Holding on to Mother Earth is what you want.” From remembering the smell of the clay as he watched his great-grandmother Marie Zieu Chino and his aunt Grace Chino make their pots, to learning technique from his parents Doris and Patrick, to teaching his daughters, Patricio maintains a reverence for tradition and the physical connection to Mother Earth, working with and forming the clay into prize-winning vessels. Since 2000, he has won more than 40 awards including Best in Pottery in the Santa Fe Indian Market. “Watching my great-grandmother and my aunt work with the clay was so enjoyable,” he says. “The smell of the clay made you want to eat it, to get your hands into it. But you have to be taught.…

DURANGO, CO For the June edition of the First Friday Artwalk in Durango, Colorado, Blue Rain Gallery will be hosting a show featuring glass art from some of the top Native American artists working with the medium today. For more than 20 years, Blue Rain Gallery has been a cornerstone of the contemporary Native American glass movement in the Southwest, starting with the representation of Tlingit artist Preston Singletary. Today, the gallery houses a number of glass works and collaborative pieces from Native American artists across the country. The upcoming show will include a totem by Lummi Nation artist Dan Friday and a fish series in cast glass by Singletary, as well as multiple collaborative pieces by Tammy Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo), Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Harlan Reano…

INDIANAPOLIS, IN Composed of three distinct photo essays created by Tailyr Irvine, Russel Albert Daniels and Donovan Quintero, Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field explores deeply personal issues and stories that have been largely left out of mainstream discourse. A collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the exhibition is on view at the Eiteljorg Museum through July 7. In Reservation Mathematics: Navigating Love in Native America, Irvine (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) zooms in on the controversial blood quantum system which is used to determine eligibility for tribal enrollment. With increasing numbers of tribal members whose ancestry includes more than one tribe, their children’s chances of meeting the minimum blood quantum requirements for tribal enrollment are declining. For her piece, Irvine interviewed Indigenous residents in…

LOS ANGELES, CA On June 13, Bonhams will present its Native American art sale in Los Angeles. The 250-lot sale will include historic and contemporary artwork by Native American artists. Highlights among the offerings are a number of important collections, including a fresh-to-market selection of Hopi katsina figures collected by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff (1886-1983) in the 1910s and 1920s. “An artist, educator and author, DeHuff is perhaps best known as an important contributor to the development of Native American easel painting in Santa Fe in the 1920s and 1930s, teaching from inside her own home as a result of the Bureau of Indian Affairs prohibiting arts training at the Santa Fe Indian School, where her husband was superintendent for a time,” notes auction specialist Ingmars Lindbergs. “Among her students were…

For an upcoming episode of our American Art Collective podcast, I interviewed Jody and Susan Folwell about their respective pottery careers. They are incredible artists and equally incredible interview subjects, so the episode is really fascinating. We talk about all kinds of subjects, but we spend most of our time on pottery, particularly pottery from Santa Clara Pueblo. At one point, the conversation wandered into an area that I did not anticipate: cow patties. For those unfamiliar, I should tell you to Google it but, alas, here we are. Cow patties are bovine manure. They earn that lovely nickname because of the way they are deposited onto the ground by the cow. They just kind of plop there in a mound. Left untouched, the mound will dry out and harden…

While putting together our pottery section this year, we heard numerous stories about the gathering of clay and materials by some of the top potters working today. It is remarkable how few ingredients are needed for pottery. There is earth and water, and then later there are other materials, from wood for the firing and paint for the outside of the pot. But really, pottery is just earth and water. That’s it. Mixed together, they become a dense clay, a medium waiting for a set of careful hands. As is often the case, the clay comes from the pueblos themselves, or from sites near where the potters live. So, when an artist creates a pot and then fires it, they are putting their a piece of their home right into…

For the Folwell family of potters, hailing from Kha’po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo), pottery is more than an art form—it’s a cherished vessel they trust to hold their history, heritage and identity. Across generations, as each member’s hands have joined in molding clay, they’ve not only sculpted exquisite pottery, they’ve played essential roles in shaping the contours of the family’s celebrated legacy In recognition of the Folwells’ time-honored, ongoing devotion to their craft, the Smithsonian affiliated Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, is unveiling The Folwell Family: 5 Generations of Potters, opening June 22 and running through October 20. This expansive showcase marks a historic milestone for the Booth Museum, serving as its first display devoted exclusively to Native American pottery. The four-month-long event serves as a compelling introduction…

SANTA FE, NM In a special showcase now open to the public at Adobe Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, four San Ildefonso polychrome pottery pieces are on view to educate and illuminate. Gallery owner, Alexander Anthony, explains that these four examples illustrate the progression of the tribe’s style and traditional use of their native slip in cream—requiring artists to stone polish before painting. Beginning with the oldest of the four pieces, is the Historic Powhoge Polychrome Jar, circa 1880, attributed to Marianita Roybal. “Although many types or styles of pottery were being made in the [San Ildefonso Pueblo] in the late 1800s, the most predominant style was Powhoge polychrome typology,” Anthony notes. “Powhoge polychrome pottery—[named after the Tewa term for the pueblo]—was black-on-cream with red, limited to use on…

SANTA FE, NM Since its inception in 1917, the New Mexico Museum of Art has been at the forefront of collecting and interpreting the art of New Mexico, with particular emphasis on early 20th-century art. When its expansion project, Vladem Contemporary, opened in the fall of 2023, one of the museum’s guiding visions was to continue studying and showcasing the art of New Mexico, with a focus on more recent decades. With Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000, a retrospective of three exciting decades in the state’s artistic legacy, a collaborative group of curators have put together a landmark exhibition at the Vladem that not only celebrates the rich diversity of creative expression during the era, but also the hubs and hidden gems in the state from where it came. “The…

ONGOING PHOENIX, AZ Art & Sole Phoenix Art Museum (602) 252-8840 www.heard.org ONGOING TUCSON, AZ The Pottery Project Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona (520) 621-6302 statemuseum.arizona.edu JUNE 1 SANTA FE, NM Robert Patricio: Yunni tsameh Kaa’ch: Songs of the Rain King Galleries (480) 481-0187 www.kinggalleries.com JUNE 1-NOVEMBER 3 NEW BEDFORD, MA BREACH: Logbook 24 | SCRIMSHAW New Bedford Whaling Museum (508) 997-0046 www.whalingmuseum.org JUNE 4 DALLAS, TX Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Signature Auction Heritage Auctions (877) 437-4824 www.ha.com ONGOING VENICE, ITALY 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: Jeffrey Gibson, the space in which to place me www.labiennale.org/it www.iaia.edu JUNE 7-21 DURANGO, CO First Friday Artwalk Feature – Glass Show Blue Rain Gallery (970) 232-2033 www.blueraingallery.com JUNE 8-9 LOS ANGELES, CA American Indian Arts…

Gomeo Bobelu (1964-2022) was a Zuni silversmith, an Air Force veteran, actor, graphic artist, filmmaker, social justice advocate, tribal elder, father, grandfather and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He was an advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) and he, himself, was released from the hospital after a brutal beating and died several days later. About 8 years ago, painter Roseta Santiago received a call from Gomeo who said he had been told to call her by a friend who recommended him as a model. “We made an appointment,” she recalled, “and he was very nervous when he arrived. There was something magical and mysterious about him. He was very lyrical, if you can call a person lyrical and I could tell he was a super empath. I…

A DEEPER LOOK Jars of this type date circa 50-500 in the Tucson Basin. This is the most complete specimen of the oldest kind of pottery container yet found in the region. It was found in a pit house at the Stone Pipe Site, near Prince Road and the I-10 frontage road in Tucson. It came into the ASM collections in 1998 as most do, by way of the archaeological repository, discovered as a result of archaeological excavations conducted in advance of a development project. Four-fifths of the objects in the ASM collections are of an archaeological nature. ASM is the largest and busiest state-run archaeological repository in the nation. The great majority of the earliest pottery containers in the Southwest U.S. and northwest Mexico were seed jars like this…

Olla Simple pueblo pottery from before the eighth century has been found in the Rio Grande Valley. Large storage jars called olla were made to hold food and water. The clay vessels were mostly undecorated but sometimes textured. The pottery used for ceremonies was often richly decorated with black painted designs. The arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century brought changes to the style and use of pueblo pottery. They began to make dough bowls when the Spanish introduced them to wheat and yeast. Previously they had made unleavened corn tortillas. Decoration referenced the natural environment often with geometric symbols representing clouds, rain, animals and plant life. The Minneapolis Institute of Art comments on a 13th - to 14th-century Ancestral Puebloan pot in its collection: “The full, round shape…

Throughout this section, featuring some of the best Native American pottery on the market, you’ll find a little bit everything. This ranges from the traditional, more historic examples that enliven your spirit and recall days and legends past, to the more vibrant contemporary visions that have us looking to the future. Whether traditional or contemporary, or created by an emerging or seasoned artist, each pottery piece carries the weight of an artist’s connection to ancestry and to earth. Continue reading to learn more about stunning pottery that is now available for purchase from top artists and leading galleries all around the country. These masterpieces are waiting for new homes. Blue Rain Gallery Together, Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano create pottery using all natural materials and fire their pieces outdoors. They…

LOS ANGELES, CA The American Indian Arts Festival, previously the American Indian Arts Marketplace, showcases the work of more than 150 elite Native American artists, including the best contemporary and traditional Native jewelry, pueblo pottery, sculpture, basketry and beadwork. The event takes place June 8 and 9 at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. “Los Angeles, a city renowned for its diversity, continues to assert itself as a global epicenter for creativity,” says Robyn Hetrick, director of programs and public events at the Autry. “In recent years, this sprawling metropolis has witnessed a burgeoning of artist communities and the rise of new galleries, firmly establishing itself on the international art stage. Recognizing the profound impact of Native American and Indigenous artists within this major market is…

DALLAS, TX Heritage Auctions will be hosting its Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Signature Auction in late spring. The sale brings collectors a wide array of historic Native American treasures, including Navajo weavings, katsina dolls, jewelry and more. “The June 4 auction has a wonderful array of Navajo textiles, the stars being a couple of dazzling Germantown weavings and a couple of late classic second phase chief’s blankets, one a man’s, the other a woman’s,” says Delia Sullivan, director of ethnographic art at Heritage Auctions. The Late Classic Navajo Man’s Wearing Blanket is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $200,000, while the Late Classic Navajo Woman’s Wearing Blanket is estimated at $25,000 to $35,000. “The sale also includes a plethora of Southwest jewelry, from the traditional to the…