Two Indian women artists blazing their own trails. Story by Cristina Burack, ... a vibrating platform adorned in a projected animated light pattern consisting of lips made from woodcut prints.

Through May 31, the Tucson (Arizona) Desert Art Museum presents “Art is the Seed: Contemporary Native American Women’s Art Inspired by Traditional Crafts,” an exhibit honoring this connection.

At least 90% of the Native American art in all museum collections was made by women, according to Jill Ahlberg Yohe, the associate curator of Native American art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

“Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists,” on view at the Frist through Jan. 12, celebrates women as the predominant makers of Native American art.

The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show, by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000 years of their art.

Native American ledger art — drawings made on old financial ledgers or deeds — traces its roots to the mid-1870s, when a group of Southern Plains warriors were held at Fort Marion in Florida.

Phoebe Farris, editor of the book "Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), and professor of art, design and women ...

Marina Tyquiengco, a scholar who specializes in Native American and Aboriginal Australian art, has been appointed to the new position, known formally as the Ellyn McColgan Assistant Curator of ...

Two Indian women artists blazing their own trails. Cristina Burack. 05/22/2025 May 22, 2025. ... The body prints Chari made during her master's, including the one above, ...