After decades of “staying within the lines” of what was considered traditional Native art, Indigenous artists are increasingly moving into the contemporary art space. Whether creating fine-art ...

Native American art has always been contemporary. It’s the museums who have attempted to lock it in the past. That practice, finally, is changing. Native American art has always been contemporary.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 21: Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, curator of "The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans" exhibition, attends the opening reception at the ...

“This is a reclamation project,” Sylvia Yount, the Met’s American wing curator, said in a tour of the show, which also included 10 works on loan from the Mary Sully Foundation. “We are inserting Mary ...

Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe), "Making History" (2022), photographed in honor of IAIA’s 60th and MoCNA’s 50th anniversaries (all images courtesy IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) ...

Springfield History Museum collaborated with Thurston High School to bring an all-day exhibit on Native culture. Thurston Native American Student Union and other affinity groups were instrumental in ...

Works by Cannupa Hanska Luger — “The One Who Checks & The One Who Balances” and “This is Not a Snake” — on display in the “Emerging Current” exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. The ...