Celebrate Native arts and culture at the IN THE SPIRIT
The free IN THE SPIRIT Arts Market & Northwest Native Festival is returning to the Washington State History Museum on Aug. 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This highly anticipated event, in correlation with the IN THE SPIRIT Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition, is a vibrant celebration of Native arts and culture, offering visitors a unique opportunity to experience the richness of contemporary Native creativity and directly support talented artists.
“Washington’s cultural history begins with the Indigenous people of this land,” said Washington State Historical Society Director, Jennifer Kilmer. “IN THE SPIRIT is an event that celebrates the presence, and continuation of Native art and culture today.”
Visitors are invited to view the IN THE SPIRIT exhibition, which showcases the work of 26 Native artists from across the country. The exhibition highlights a juried selection of Native art that ranges from traditional craftsmanship to cutting-edge contemporary styles.
The Arts Market will feature selected Native artisan vendors, offering an array of crafts, jewelry, and artworks for visitors to purchase. Many of the artists featured in the exhibition will be in attendance as vendors. Additionally, there will be art-making opportunities for attendees to create something of their own.
A wide range of performances will take place throughout the day in the Washington State History Museum amphitheater. The festivities will kick off at noon with a special blessing by Puyallup Cultural Director Connie McCloud (Puyallup). At 12:30 p.m., the renowned 2014 & 2016 Native American Flute Player of the Year, Rona Yellow Robe (Chippewa Cree Tribe), will share traditional songs. At 2 p.m., the Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Aleut, Muckleshoot, and Quielute) will take the audience on a journey through time, sharing songs and dances passed down for generations. Closing out the festival with a bang will be celebrated heavy-rock duo, Lozen (Puyallup and Indigenous Mexican), playing their first show in five years at IN THE SPIRIT.
The Tacoma Art Museum and Museum of Glass will also be offering complimentary admission and programming for IN THE SPIRIT on Aug. 12. The Tacoma Art Museum will feature works from talented Native artists, including Paige Pettibon (Confederated Salish and Kootenai).
Pettibon’s art spans across various mediums, and her pieces are deeply influenced by her Indigenous and multicultural heritage. Visitors can meet Paige Pettibon and witness her creative process firsthand from 1-4 p.m. at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Over at the Museum of Glass, Glass Fest Northwest will take center-stage, celebrating glass art by bringing together local artists and artisans, food, drinks, music, and interactive activities on the plaza. Inside the Museum, visitors will have the opportunity to witness renowned weaver Nancy Burgess (Umpqua) as she creates new works inspired by hat and basket forms from her weaving practice.
The IN THE SPIRIT Arts Market & Northwest Native Festival is a result of the collaborative efforts between the Washington State History Museum and the Native Advisory Committee. Together, they aim to foster cultural appreciation, support Native artists, and celebrate the diversity of Native arts.
We wish to acknowledge that this festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Puyallup People who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We pay respect to their people past and present.
For more information about the festival and other related events, please visit the Washington State History Museum’s website at www.washingtonhistory.org.
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What makes a great art fair?
Size.
How about more than 1,000 artists spread over several city blocks?
Quality, of course.
Each of those 1,000-plus contemporary artists are juried into the event, leaders in their fields.
Diversity.
Artworks in this fair are broken out into 10 distinct categories ranging from jewelry to pottery, sculpture, textiles, and two-dimensional art including painting, drawing, graphics and photography.
Invited artists represent over 200 sovereign nations.
Community.
This art fair feels more like a reunion than an exercise in snobbery. Hundreds of the artists and thousands of the visitors have been attending for decades. Artists use the event to catch up on a year’s worth of news. Friendships are formed with collectors.
Here, artists greet visitors in person and chat.
No one’s going to Art Basel Miami Beach, meeting Hank Willis Thomas, and spending 10 minutes talking him up about his work.
Santa Fe, NM, USA – August 20, 2016: Billy Betoney Sr, a Navajo-Dine jeweler, smiling in his booth … [+]
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Value.
Collectors buy direct from artists at this fair. No gallery markup, no middleman, no shenanigans on price with some customers being given sweetheart deals unavailable to all, or other customers forbidden from buying certain artworks because they don’t fit a profile. 99% of what’s for sale here can be purchased for less than $5,000.
And entry is free. Guests just walk up and start looking at art.
The cheapest tickets at The Armory Show, New York’s art fair, run $35.
Artist booths occupy space surrounded local restaurants. No $15 wine glasses or $21 sandwich hustles at this art fair. If you want a refreshment–Frito Pie perhaps–just bop into one of the many adjacent eateries.
SANTA FE, NM – AUGUST 19, 2017: Native American clay pottery by Acoma Pueblo potter Franklin Peters … [+]
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Extras.
Over the two days of this art fair, hours of live musical performances, dancing, and a haute couture fashion show are combined with numerous smaller satellite fairs, museum and gallery exhibitions, and artist meet-and-greets creating a 48-hour wonderland of the arts no person could ever experience entirely even if they were able to divide themselves in thirds and spread out.
Model Quannah Chasinghorse wears a dress from Lauren Good Day at the SWAIA Indian Market 2022 … [+]
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Location.
Sunny Santa Fe in stunning northern New Mexico hosts this art fair with the main event occurring outdoors. Watch the weather and wear sunscreen.
Described is the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts annual Santa Fe Indian Market. This year’s 101st edition takes place August 19th and 20th, free and open to the public, with paid advance preview opportunities on the 18th.
“Market,” as it’s referred to in shorthand, is more than the largest cultural event in the U.S. Southwest. It’s more than the largest Indigenous art market in the world. For the reasons listed, it is the world’s greatest art fair, an experience every art lover should partake in at least once.
Home to roughly 300 art galleries, including those along famed Canyon Road, and a dozen world class art museums, including the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe is a major arts destination year round. It is the epicenter of the Native American art world. During Indian Market, it becomes the epicenter of the art world.
Nothing else remotely approaches its scale, caliber or legacy.
Photographer Eleanor Preger may be self-taught, but her images are breathtaking. She’s lauded for her skill with capturing the inner spirit of her subjects and the vast beauty of the Burning Man Playa. Her latest exhibition, Art on Fire, is now on view at Sierra Arts.
Your Burning Man photography exhibition will be held at Sierra Arts Gallery from Aug. 1-Sept. 7, with a reception on Friday, Aug. 4. How and why did this come about?
I was introduced to Burning Man in 2011. The Nevada Museum of Art wanted to hold an exhibit with the LED artist Leo Villareal, but Director David Walker could not get any support. So he asked my husband and I for sponsorship. He said he’d take me and my friend to Burning Man. I asked him, “Why would I want to go to Burning Man?” And he said, “You like to take pictures, don’t you?” I was an amateur photographer then. So I went to Burning Man for one day from 7 am to midnight and got hooked. I started taking workshops for landscape and portrait photography. The following year I brought my camera and became a Burning Man advocate.
Burning Man later contacted you saying they really liked some of your photos, and could you send them copies. So that’s when you became part of their volunteer Media Mecca Documentary Team?
The Documentary Team is a group of volunteer photographers and videographers that
document the life in Black Rock City. There are now about 80,000 ‘Burners’ (attendees) every
year. We try to capture the radical inclusion and the diversity of the Burner camps. We also try to photograph the Burning Man staff and the city infrastructure, along with the art and pop-up experiences.
The Playa can be a rough environment to photograph. How do you document that?
There are the not-so-glamourous realities of life in Burning Man — dust storms, dusted
people, wind damage, damaged camps. So there’s good and bad. We just try to bring the whole culture to the public.
You spend 10 days shooting on the Playa. It must be challenging, physically and mentally.
You know what, I was a really shy person until I had a camera in front of me. For some
reason the camera made me open up and approach people. Burning Man opened me up to a new way of life. It flipped a switch in me. When I went there I realized I could just take in the
moment and appreciatate it. My husband felt the same way. But being a photographer can be lonely at times. I’m the one who’s always behind. I let the crowd go ahead. Then take my
pictures, and try to catch up with everybody.
You’ve now garnered a wide and impressive range of photography work. Can you give some examples?
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man exhibit at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian
American Art Museum is one example. It was held from 2018-2019. They used my “Truth is
Beauty” photo to promote it all over the world. Also, my photo of the Monaco Art Car was
auctioned off at Sotheby’s.
You’ve helped curate a number of shows at the Sierra Arts Gallery.
It started with a solo Burning Man show I helped curate in 2019. After this I was included in
the August Burning Man shows with other photographers in 2021 and 2022. I now help curate the Burning Man show Sierra Arts Gallery has in August with gallery curator Maria Partridge. My husband and I are supporters of the Sierra Arts Gallery, as they truly support artists and the art community in so many ways.
You’ve invited photographers Scott London and Marc Sheff to participate in your upcoming Sierra Arts Gallery exhibition.
Curator Maria Partridge invited Marc Scheff to exhibit his interesting black and white
Burning Man portraits. And I love Scott London’s work. He’s become my mentor and teacher.
He and co-author Jennifer Raiser will be doing a talk and book signing at the artist reception.
Scott is also a member of the Burning Man Documentary Team along with me.
Could you share some of the photography techniques you use?
I often use long exposure on a tripod. For instance, a sunrise with elogated clouds using an
exposure of 30 seconds. I’ve also been doing infrared photography. It looks black and white, but sometimes there’s blue and pink hues in it. I also try to take the same picture of a night scene and a day scene, and then combine them. There are beautiful sunrises and sunsets at Burning Man.
I read that you like to use props.
I like umbrellas, and use lighted props, ribbons, and smoke. I also do fast exposures of people jumping and dancing or twirling with their hair in midair. It’s how you get those kinds of shots.
When speaking about your photography, I learned that you’re most proud of the moments you’ve captured the “spirit of a friend.”
Many people have shared with me that I capture their inner spirit. I make sure to get
permission from everyone I photograph. Sometimes I’ll help them fix their hair or straighten
their shirt. Something like that. So they feel relaxed with me, and it comes through.
Do you have a particular type of person you like to photograph?
There are people I do repeat shoots with every year. And I try to shoot people of all ages. And
actually most of my pictures, as you’ll see, aren’t young people, and aren’t Instagram poses.
You live part-time in Nevada at Incline Village in Lake Tahoe, and part-time in Sausalito,
Marin County, California. You seem very active. How do you balance it all?
I love my house in Sausalito and have family down there. I have five grandkids. But, Tahoe is
our home. It’s a small community of about 8,000 people. A lot of retired young people that were in high-tech. And a lot of non-profit activities. Yes, we are busy, but I think that’s what keeps us young.
Art on Fire: An Exhibition of Photography by Scott London and Eleanor Preger, along with Marc Scheff’s black and white Burning Man portraits, are on on view at Sierra Arts Gallery in downtown Reno through Sept. 7 with a reception on Aug. 4 from 5-8 pm and a talk and book signing with Scott London and Jennifer Raiser at 6:30 pm.
Photos courtesy Eleanor Preger
All The Ohio State University students, staff, faculty, visiting scholars and alumni are invited to submit photos to the 2023 International Photography Competition. All photographs must be the original work of the entrant, of high quality and taken outside of the United States. Photographers are invited to submit one photo in each category: People, Places and Arts & Culture. Submissions are accepted until October 6, 2023 at 12:59 p.m. EST. Review the 2023 International Photography Competition Rules and submit your best international photos.
Judges will select 40 photos based on artistic expression, creativity, originality, photo commentary and the quality of the image to be on display at our photo exhibition in the Ohio Union. The judges will also choose a first, second and third place entry for each category, which will be announced at the 2023 Photography Exhibition opening reception. Photos selected for the exhibition will be eligible to win the People’s Choice Award determined through an online vote via Facebook and Instagram.
For questions, please contact Victor van Buchem, van-buchem.1@osu.edu.
