Migrations : new directions in Native American art / edited by Marjorie Devon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Devon, Marjorie.

University of New Mexico. Art Museum.

Tamarind Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian prints--United States--Catalogs.

Indian prints.

Prints, American--21st century--Catalogs.

Prints, American.

United States.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Summary:

The University of New Mexico's Tamarind Institute is a world-renowned center for fine art lithography dedicated to preserving the medium through educational programs, research, and collaborations between master printers and artists. In Migrations, Tamarind director Marjorie Devon has compiled the work of six Native American artists, selected because they engage in contemporary art rather than what is traditionally considered "Native American art." Artists Steven Deo (Creek/Euchee), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa/Arapaho), and Marie Watt (Seneca) represent a wide spectrum of Native American cultures and experiences.

In addition to reproductions of the artists' work in many different mediums, this book includes commentary by Jo Ortel, Lucy Lippard, Kathleen Howe, and Gerald McMaster. Ortel, an associate professor of art history at Beloit College, defines "Migrations" as it applies to this project. Lippard is an art critic and author whose essay discusses the cultural baggage forced upon the American Indian. As director of the Pomona College Museum of Art and professor of art history, Howe offers an overview of Tamarind Institute's projects with indigenous peoples. A Plains Cree artist, McMaster's essay details the history of Crow's Shadow Institute on Oregon's Umatilla Reservation. A traveling exhibition, also entitled "Migrations," will open in September 2007 at the University of New Mexico Art Museum.

Contents:

Essays

Moving days: Lucy R. Lippard

Crow's shadow: art and community: Gerald McMaster

A quiet commitment: Tamarind and Native American artists: Kathleen Stewart Howe

Multiple migrations: (E)merging imagery: Jo Ortel

Artists: Steven Deo

Tom Jones

Larry McNeil

Ryan Lee Smith

Star Wallowing Bull

Marie Watt.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Sept. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0826337694

OCLC:

63297689

Publisher Number:

9780826337696