Monday, November 17, 2008

Fritz Scholder, Donald Montileaux

Andres Quandelacy, Bisbee Cobolt Azurite Buffalo

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Headlines, exhibits, powwows listed below: (access past headline archives for 2004-2006 here)

Bridging Sciences with Native American Perspective

The ‘Art’ of PostIndian Semiotic Warfare

Donald Montileaux uses Native materials to share culture

Richard Pearce, George Flett: Ledger Art (review), Studies in American Indian Literatures

Native American Heritage Month at Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario

Fourth Annual California's First Cultures program at Crafton Hills College

Grammy Award Winning Artist Bill Miller to Perform at PSC

The Heard Museum North Scottsdale

Nearly priceless pottery at Sun City auction

Artist Fritz Scholder Redefined Native American Art

Native American Author Sherman Alexie To Speak At Aurora University

Q&A with recording artist, photographer Eli Secody

Trickster Gallery Cliff Fragua Art Sculpture

Prominent Ballet Dancer Rosella Hightower

ADOT unearths ancient village at Cordes Lakes

Scholder show opens in Washington, New York

American Indian Ledger Art

In celebration of Native American Month, Phoenix College will host an event featuring Ross Frank, Ph.D., ethnic studies professor at University of California at San Diego. Frank will introduce American Indian Ledger Art, a genre of drawing on paper by Plains Native Americans during the 19th century, often in accountants’ ledger books, of historical, cultural, artistic, and religious importance.

Phoenix College - John Paul Theatre 1202 W. Thomas Road

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:00 a.m. Free and open to the public

For more information: Contact Carol Bolton at (602) 285-7194

Nov. 1-29

SISTERS OF THE THE GREAT LAKES: ART OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, an exhibit that visually addresses the complexities of being an American Indian in the modern world through diverse artwork including pottery, stained glass, paintings, sculpture, quill work and black ash basketry will show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. Free with museum admission, free to museum members. Guided tours offered at 2 p.m. Saturdays.

The exhibition “Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian,” featuring more than 130 pieces from the late artist of Luiseño, French and German descent, opened Nov. 1 at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington and at its New York branch, the George Gustav Heye Center.

The Heye Center will focus on a narrow stretch of Scholder’s career, featuring works created at a loft in lower Manhattan. The New York show will be on view through May 17, 2009, The NMAI works, on display through Aug. 16, 2009.

Exquisite clay pots in the exhibition "Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya," at Carnegie Museum of Natural History through Jan. 4th, 2009

(Through Feb 3, 2009) BEYOND TRADITION Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia is on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through February. One of the most recognizable figures in Southwestern ceramics, Garcia is known for infusing a two-thousand year old tradition with modernity. Examples of her most important pots are featured, with intricate designs, and bold shapes delicately carved into the clay.

Recent Books of Interest

''Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest (University of New Mexico Press: 2006). Editors V.B. Price and Baker H. Morrow have assembled 15 essays on the millennium-old Puebloan landscape.

"Being Lakota", Book by Larissa Petrillo

"American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", Book by George Horse Capture

Spokane artist George Flett, well kown for his depictions of ledger art, announcing forthcoming book "The Ledger Art of George Flett"

Po'pay, Leader of the First American Revolution, Clear Light Publishing, 2006, new book by Herman Agoyo (Ohkay Owingeh)

Míkmaq Legend Of The Turtle – Micmac

As told by Michael Francis

In the long ago turtle was the great story teller of all the birds and animals of Kluskap's land. During the summer he had many friends, but when the cold Winter King came from the northland, most of the birds flew south to the home of the warm Summer Queen and many of the animals hibernated deep underground. Turtle did not know how to do this. He walked so slowly that the cold Winter King soon caught up with him. He nearly froze. He was so very cold and lonesome.

However, his great friendliness was his way to rescue. He talked to the geese about taking him to the warm south. They agreed to do so only if they could find some way to stop turtle from talking, for he was a bore to the geese who liked to honk their tales far and wide. The wiley geese found a way. They carried turtle by his mouth on a stick and, of course, once off the ground he didn't dare open his mouth.

He did not enjoy his stay in the land of the Summer Queen. It was too warm in his heavy shell and he missed many of his dear friends. The next summer the maidens of the Queen brought him back to Kluskap's land and taught him how to hibernate.

It is said that if you find a turtle hibernating from the cold of the great Winter King he will be deep under the soil telling stories all winter long to his many friends

Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

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