Efforts to strengthen and improve the Indian Arts and Crafts Act are coming amid criminal cases and renewed claims to Native identities.
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Indigenous Artists Tell the Story of Hawaiian Surfing
He‘e Nalu: The Art and Legacy of Hawaiian Surfing centers the culture of Kānaka Maoli, the Indigenous people of Hawaii.
‘Reconciliation through art’: Campaign aims to get an Indigenous woman on Canada’s $20 bill
A new campaign is aiming to get an Indigenous woman honoured on the next $20 bill in Canada for the first time.
Museum to focus on Native American art created for tourist trade
The Housatonic Museum of Art’s Spring Speaker Series is launching with “Making Sovereignty: Native American Tourist Art” on March 28 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
New skateboard stamps featuring Native artists will debut in Maryvale
A new stamp will feature art from an Arizona artist.The United States Postal Service will debut its latest stamp collection, “Art of the Skateboard Forever Stamps,” at a dedication ceremony on Friday
Don’t miss the exquisite Native-American carvings at the Sainsbury Centre
It’s payback time: women, artists from ethnic minorities and non-western traditions are taking over the exhibition schedules. On the heels of the seven women expressionists in Making Modernism at the Royal Academy comes Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South. ‘We are aware that art history has excluded a lot
Tradition, healing, connection: Indigenous artists embrace heritage in the Columbia-Pacific region
Looking back on his childhood, artist Charles Funk admits to drawing a lot. “My teachers remember me drawing all over my school assignments,” he said.
Artists fear proposed changes to Southeast Alaska sea otter hunting rules could threaten traditional craft
Only certain Alaska Native people can hunt sea otters. But as otter populations have grown, so have calls to loosen federal laws protecting them.
Street art: Middletown native, emerging artist gets rare chance to display bold, colorful pieces in solo show
Kendall Soliwoda’s large-scale paintings of Greek gods, aquatic scenes, intriguing…
Why tackling the global industry of fake Indigenous art is like playing ‘whack-a-mole’
The industry ranges from designs copied onto apparel and home decor to carved masks and totem poles, reproduced in Asia and Eastern Europe and sold cheaply.