Howe, a Native American artist, had submitted a painting to the 1958 Philbrook Indian Annual art competition and the jurors had turned it down. It wasn’t the rejection that offended him but the ...

In the winter of 1967, artist Fritz Scholder broke a promise. Working as a teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Scholder was already a Native American artist of some renown.

In 2011, Frey was the first-ever basket artist, and only the second Native artist, to win the two most prestigious competitions – the Heard Indian Fair and Market and the Santa Fe Indian Market ...

And, in 1941, d’Harnoncourt and Denver Art Museum curator Frederic H. Douglas mounted the exhibit “Indian Art of the United States” at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art.

For non-Native audiences, it was a glimpse into Indian country that they hadn’t seen before, something far different from how the “Indian experience” had historically been portrayed. It was ...

Roughly 60 years ago, art collectors tried to convince South Dakota American Indian artist Oscar Howe to paint what they said were more realistic paintings of American Indians.

Jacobs has created art since the 70s, but has worked as an ironworker, broadcaster, musician, poet and art teacher. He studied in Santa Fe and lived there for around 30 years. He’s been back ...

Native artists who create outside the box of traditional "Indian" art are considered rebels. Pat Pruitt challenges conventional constraints.

Jeffrey Gibson first spotted “The Dying Indian”—a bronze statue of a Native American man on horseback, by the American sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey—while he was leaving the Brooklyn Museum ...

Artist Joshua Marowitz emphasizes the importance of biodiversity through his art project, "The Natives." The exhibit is being held at Columbia College until Dec. 1.

Coastside, Palo Alto, Redwood City Behind the screens: Meet the Palo Alto native making custom screen prints and hand-painted signs from his Coastside art studio by Karla Kane May 4, 2023 4:03 pm ...