Ahalenia

Win a matched set of quillwork and wampum necklace and earrings! $10 PER RAFFLE TICKET. I'm raffling this set off to raise funds for the Jacobson House Native Art Center. Purchase tickets by s...

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On September 20th, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) hosted a daylong symposium, Shedding Skin: Reconstructing our Relationship to Art, developed by a recent IAIA graduate Alicia Ren...

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Women in Cultural Context, a group exhibit, showed at Tansey Contemporary on Canyon Road. I went to see Teri Greeves ’ large scale wall pieces—beadwork mosaic appliqués on raw silk. While t...

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Deer on one of eight barrier mounds at the gap of the Octagonal Mound of the Newark Earthworks Will post soon!

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Hopewell Mound Group, as mapped by Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis, published in 1848 Today we went to the primary site for the Middle Woodland societies known as the Hopewell Tradition: the...

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Sorry, no time to write much but here are images. More later! Fort Ancient Archaeological Park museum. This site is the largest hilltop earthwork enclosure, located near Oregonia, Ohio. The ed...

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The 40-foot tall conical Jeffers Mound is covered in vegetation, including approximately 40 trees and ring of poison ivy Ohio State University’s American Indian Center sponsored Linda and...

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Map of precontact sites in Ohio by Heironymous Rowe Thanks to American Indian Studies Program at the Ohio State University, Linda Lomahaftewa and I are embarking on another precolumbian jou...

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Thanks so much to Scott Andrews for pointing out the problems with pop-ad spam on this blog. I thought Google had allowed pop-ads on their blogs, so I just abandoned this blog. However, it turns ...

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> FAAM > fills a gaping void by promoting critical writing on aboriginal art > of the Americas directed at the public and driven by artists. It > synthesizes the academ...

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First American Art Magazine, the new magazine dedicated to serious coverage of arts of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North and South, is now available for free online at www.firstamerican...

http://ahalenia.blogspot.com/2013/05/first-american-art-magazine-is-online.html

Makah basketry-covered lightbulb, ca. 1900, Red cedar bark, bear grass, commercial dyes, over a lightbulb, Seattle Art Museum I would like to propose taking one term away from you and givin...

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Live paint at Standing Buffalo Gallery, Norman, OK Exciting, vibrant art is being created by Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. Native peoples are curating shows and writing new art...

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Happy 2013! I've been much occupied elsewhere and have neglected this blog in recent months, but just discovered a brilliant project. The Solar Map Project is documenting petroglyphs in the Ama...

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If you have a few seconds, please take a BRIEF ONLINE SURVEY about Native art publications. I'm collecting information about what people would like and would not like to see in Native art writin...

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The fourth annual Inner Demons group art show showcasing the dark, disturbed, and simply wrong. The opening reception is Friday, October 26th, 6:00–9:00pm at Ahalenia Studios, 2889 Trades W...

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Ah Tz'ib, a Mayan word referring to painters and writers While it’s clear that we need new vocabulary to discuss Indigenous art; the effort to find new words seems to be stymied. One problem...

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When someone mentions a supposed dichotomy between "fine arts" and "crafts" in Indigenous American art, I scan for escape routes. That conversation goes nowhere, because the unspoken framework ...

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ᎦᎵᎡᎵᎦ! Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club has just been published by the University of North Carolina Press. The result of years of collaboration between Christopher B. ...

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Last week a golden opportunity came my way — teaching ARTS 165, "Art Exhibitions and the Cultural Landscape," at Santa Fe Community College. The 3-credit course will meet Wednesday, 9-11:30 am...

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L "RECLAMATION: MANIFESTATIONS OF CHANGING WOMAN," NANI CHACON, OIL ON MASONITE Santa Fe, NM — LOW-REZ: NATIVE AMERICAN LOWBROW ART is a group art show of emerging and established ...

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Parking Lot, Joe Feddersen (Colville), glass, 2003 In her 2009 essay, “Designed to Last,” Choctaw-Chickasaw artist, writer, and curator heather ahtone proposed a means of critiquing Ind...

http://ahalenia.blogspot.com/2012/07/heather-ahtone-reads-beneath-surface.html

The King's Men, part of the Rollright Stones in Warwickshire Three events conspired to lure me over to England for the first time. Two were contemporary Native American art shows. Indigenou...

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Ironworker Cradleboard, Donald "Babe" Hemlock, maple, pine, ash, painter, fur, hide, instestines, 2011 Last in a series of cutting-edge contemporary Native art exhibitions, the newest Chang...

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MESSENGERS 2012 a group art show curated by Joanne Prince, an advocate for Native art and owner of Rainmaker Gallery in Bristol, England. The show features 18 contemporary Native American Indian ...

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