First American Art Magazine

"Working with media from beadwork and printmaking to wearable art and abstract painting, these creators are making Native art on their own terms."

In "New Voices, Bold Visions" Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent) interviews 4 rising art stars who you can find at Santa Fe Indian Market:
🌟 Carmen Selam (Yakama/Comanche)
🌟 Mikaela Shafer (Hopi)
🌟 Jimmy Dean Horn (Chickasaw), and
🌟 Mikailah Thompson (Nez Perce/African American)

New-York Historical Society 2025–26 Curatorial Fellowship open to an aspiring or early-career Haudenosaunee museum professional

Sept. 1, 2025–July 31, 2026. Salary $60,000 + benefits

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#Haudenosaunee #Museums #Curator #Curation #NativeSky #NativeAmerican #Iroquois

Troy Jackson: Mercy Is in the Details Cherokee National Treasure Troy Jackson is the subject of a new exhibit that dives into his artistic exploration of Cherokee history, culture and identity. Featuring more than two dozen artworks – inc...

Vinita, OK – "Troy Jackson: Mercy Is in the Details"
on view at the Anna Mitchell Cultural Center,
953 E. Illinois Avenue | (877) 779-6977
through October 15, 2025

visitcherokeenation.com/event/mercy-...

#Cherokee #CherokeeNation #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #ArtSky #Oklahoma #NativeSky #NDNArt

Pictured: Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds (Iñupiaq) as Elisapee, left, and Zorga Qaunaq (Inuk) as Millie, right. Photo: Jasper Savage/Netflix.

gingela.bsky.social Angela Startz (Iñupiaq) of the Reel Indigenous podcast reviews the series "North of North" for FAAM's Summer 2025 issue. Have you watched?

Read the full review in our Summer 2025 issue, out now.

Visit firstamerican.art/calendar to see what Native art events are happening this August!

Pictured: Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw), “Sustenance,” oil on canvas, private collection. Part of the "Linda Lomahaftewa, Hopi/Choctaw Artist" exhibition at the at the Fresno Art Museum opening Aug. 9, 2025

4/4 Pictured: David A. Boxley and Zach Boxley (both Tsimshian), "Box Drum," red cedar wood, paint, collection of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Photo: MB Commercial Photography + Video

3/4 "Át Kawdiyaayi Yéil, Raven in Motion" is on display now until early 2026 at the Nathan Jackson Gallery, Sealaska Heritage Institute, in Juneau, Alaska. Read a full review of this exhibition in our latest issue.

2/4 ... this multifaceted being and creates clever moments of humor throughout 'Át Kawdiyaayi Yéil, Raven in Motion.'"

1/4 "Raven stories abound along the Northwest Coast. Equal parts culture hero and trickster, his antics continue to inspire artists in the present, just as he did in the past, and as he will in the future. Independent curator Shkík Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Tlingit/Zuni) engages with ...

acbo’s "Only a Dream" with Dylan Tenorio - First American Art Magazine Kewa/Diné musician and artists discusses the unlikely influences of video games and jewelry-making on his latest album.

Dylan Tenorio (Kewa/Diné) discusses acbo's latest album, "Only a Dream," with FAAM music writer Thollem and shares some surprising musical influences

firstamerican.art/dylan-tenorio/

#nativemusic #indigenousmusic #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #musicsky #nativesky #indigenous #ndn

7/7 Pictured: Michelle Sound (Swan River Cree/Métis), "Every Photo I Have Of My Mother," 2024, installation of cyanotypes on elk-hide drums: elk hide, wood, 9 drums are 14 × 14 in., one drum is 20 × 20 in., Richmond Art Gallery. Photo: NK Photo. Image courtesy of the artist.

6/7 — Excerpt from "Photo Genesis: Native Cyanotypes in Five Parts" by Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke) in our Summer 2025 issue.

5/7 Then Sound had a realization...."

4/7 like, 'Oh my God, I’m so sorry.’”

3/7 And then her face washed off when I was rinsing, and I was screaming. Only two of them had turned out. All the other artists who were there would come in and watch me while I was rinsing and be like, ‘Oh, I hope her face stays!’ And then it would come off and they would be

2/7 “'I had two weeks to make these drums, and I didn’t anticipate any problems because I had made them before,' she says. 'I started making the drums and, no lie, ten drums in a row, all the negatives stayed on. Her hair was there, the flowers were there, everything was there.

1/7 Our Summer 2025 cover art features one of the ten drums in this installation by Michelle Sound (Swan River Cree/Métis).

"Inchoate" and "Prayer Gatherer" by Erin Lee Antonak (Oneida Indian Nation, Wolf clan), part of "Sight of Resistance" at the Center for Native Futures

For more by Antonak, visit www.erinantonak.com

#NativeSky #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #Corn #Haudenosaunee #Oneida #ArtSky #IndigenousFuturism #NDN

The Chitto family are creating an artistic legacy. Learn more about this creative family in our Summer 2025 issue, out now.
Pictured: Hollis, Randy, Jackie, and Dillon Chitto. Image courtesy of Randy Chitto.

#NativeArt #NativeSky #IndigenousArt

Our new issue includes a feature on the revitalization of feather mantles, capes, and cultural memory. 📸: Rebecca Haff Lowry (Delaware Tribe), "Cape of a Matriarch," 2021, turkey feathers, dentalium shells, glass beads, hemp twine, 32 × 52 in. Model: Rebecca Haff Lowry. Image courtesy of the artist.

Current Issue - First American Art Magazine Check out the latest quarterly issue of First American Art Magazine, the leading journal of art by Indigenous peoples of the Americas!

firstamerican.art/current-issue/

Plus Recent Developments, Departments like Art + Lit and Seven Directions, exhibition reviews, and much more!

ARTIST PROFILES
• Dennis Esquivel: Grand Traverse Ottawa-Chippewa Fine Woodworker and Painter
• Roy Kady: Diné Textile Artist
• Traci Rabbit: Cherokee Nation Painter
• Christal Ratt: Mitchikanibikok Inik Algonquin Birchbark, Quillwork, and Beadwork Artist

FEATURES
• To Carry the Wind: The Revitalization of Feather Mantles, Capes, and Cultural Memory
• New Voices, Bold Visions: Native Artists Redefine Santa Fe’s Summer Scene
• Photo Genesis: Native Cyanotypes in Five Parts
• The Chitto Family: Generating a Large Artistic Legacy

FAAM's Summer 2025 issue is out now, featuring cover art by Michelle Sound (Swan River Cree/Métis). It's packed with content about Indigenous art including ...

Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation) reviews "Smart Wars by Rory Wakemup," an exhibition that was on display 2.27 – 4. 19.2025 at All My Relations Arts in MN, for the Spring 2025 issue.
Photo: Installation view of "Darth Chief" by Rory Wakemup (Bois Forte Ojibwe). Photo: Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation).

FAAM's Issue No. 47, Summer 2025 is out now!

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Chicago, IL – "Sight of Resistance"
opens this Saturday, July 12, 2025

4 to 7 pm
at the Center for Native Futures
56 W. Adams Street

www.centerfornativefutures.org

#NativeArt #IndigenousArt #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian #NativeAmericanArt #nativechicago #NativeSky #ArtSky #ChicagoArt #NDNArt