Making History
Making History
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers--students, educators, collectors, and the public--in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a Native-centric point of view. Topics include biography, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, coding, arts critique, curation, and writing about Indigenous art.
Featuring two original poems, ten essays authored by senior scholars in the field of Indigenous art, nearly two hundred works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA's nearly sixty-year history, Making History offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts movement.
This book will become a classic in Native American and contemporary art studies. Essential.'--T. Nygard, Choice
Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a book primarily written by and for Indigenous curators, scholars, and educators. The volume--both textbook and scholarly work--is not only a necessary contribution to contemporary Indigenous art history but is foundational to the canonization of the study and teaching of Native art.'--Lillia McEnaney, Southwest Contemporary
Foreword
Robert Martin
Introduction. American Indian Curatorial Practice: State of the Field
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Introduction to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection and the IAIA Archives
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer and Ryan S. Flahive
Indian with a Watch
Poem by Alex Jacobs
Chapter One. The Gaze in Indigenous Art: Depictions of the Body and Nudity
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Chapter Two. Mapping Indigenous Space and Place
John Paul Rangel
Chapter Three. Presentations and Representations: Images of Dances from the Southwest and West
Suzanne Newman Fricke
Chapter Four. Transforming Art History in the Classroom
Lara M. Evans
Chapter Five. "No Rules Make Art": The Work of C. Maxx Stevens
Patsy Phillips
Chapter Six. Historical Essays
About Professor Charles Dailey
Jessie Ryker-Crawford and Stephen C. Fadden
Major Influences in the Development of Twentieth-Century Native American Art
Charles A. Dailey
Cultural Self-Determination: A Conversation with Dave Warren
Nancy Marie Mithlo and Dave Warren
Teaching from Three Knowledge Spaces: The Native Eyes Project
David Wade Chambers
Illumination
Poem by Elizabeth Woody
Contributors
Index
