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Preoccupied

Indigenizing the Museum

By Dare Turner, Leila Grothe

Interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums

Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...

Skidegate House Models

From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond

By Robin K. Wright

Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii,...

Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka

The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska

By Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, and Marie Meade

A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material culture

Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or...

Not Native American Art

Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions

By Janet Catherine Berlo. Foreword by Joe Horse Capture

Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American art

The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking...

Sharing Honors and Burdens

Renwick Invitational 2023

By Lara M. Evans, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Anya Montiel

Celebrates the groundbreaking work of six contemporary craft artists from Indigenous Nations across the US

This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping...

The Art of Ceremony

Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon

By Rebecca J. Dobkins

Celebrates Indigenous renewal through ceremony, understanding the impact of the past and the possibilities for the future

The practice of ceremony offers ways to build relationships between the land and its beings, reflecting change while drawing...

Transformations

The George and Colleen Hoyt Collection of Northwest Coast Art

By Rebecca J. Dobkins and Tasia D. Riley. Foreword by John Olbrantz

Showcases work by dozens of extraordinary Northwest Coast artists from the 1950s to the present

Since the 1980s, Oregon-based art collectors George and Colleen Hoyt have amassed one of the finest private collections of Northwest Coast...

Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

By Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Aldona Jonaitis

Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to this volume foreground Indigenous understandings in recognition of...

Adivasi Art and Activism

Curation in a Nationalist Age

By Alice Tilche

The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movement

As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up...

Painful Beauty

Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience

By Megan A. Smetzer

Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit women’s beadwork

For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a...

Each/Other

Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger

By John P. Lukavic. with contributions by Jami Powell and Namita Gupta Wiggers

Features collaborative art-making by two leading contemporary Indigenous artists

Each/Other includes major pieces in diverse media by artists Marie Watt (Seneca and German-Scots) and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European) and their collaborators....

Art of the Northwest Coast

By Aldona Jonaitis

Essential reading for anyone interested in the art of Native cultures

Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those made...

Faces from the Interior

The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer

By Toby Jurovics, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Kristine K. Ronan, and Annika K. Johnson

A fascinating visual record of nineteenth-century Indigenous communities in the American West

In the early nineteenth century, Prince Maximilian of Wied traveled the Missouri River to uncover what he called “the natural face of North America”—its...

Shifting Grounds

Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art

By Kate Morris

Foregrounds the importance of landscape within twenty-first-century Indigenous art

A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies...

Totem Pole Carving

Norman Tait, Bringing a Log to Life

By Vickie Jensen

The first book to document the entire process of carving a Northwest Coast totem pole

In 1985, photographer and writer Vickie Jensen spent three months with Nisga’a artist Norman Tait and his crew of young carvers...

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks

By Emily L. Moore

Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning...

Continuum

Native North American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

By Gaylord Torrence, W. Richard West Jr., Stephanie Fox Knappe

This landmark publication brings North American Indigenous art to the fore with the presentation of 280 objects from the culturally and aesthetically rich collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. More than two-thirds of the...

Preston Singletary

Raven and the Box of Daylight

By Miranda Belarde-Lewis and John Drury

The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, and sun, holds great significance to the Tlingit people...

Becoming Mary Sully

Toward an American Indian Abstract

By Philip J. Deloria

"The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived." —New York Times

Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America’s first generation of...

Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry

The Art, the Artists, the History

By Alexander Dawkins. Foreword by Corrine Hunt

Indigenous hand-engraved jewelry from the Pacific Northwest Coastis among the most distinctive, innovative, and highly sought-after art being produced in North America today. But these artworks are more than just stunning—every bracelet, ring, and pendant...