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Artists->Painters: Introducing Crow artist Frank S. Mullenberg
Posted on Friday, June 05 @ 21:52:43 CDT (681 reads)

Frank S. Mullenberg is a new Crow artist in our gallery.

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Artists->Painters: Art contest for Alaska Native artists pays $2,000 to winner
Posted on Thursday, April 16 @ 18:15:52 CDT (779 reads)

AUTHOR: Molly Voeller

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is seeking Alaska Native artists to compete in the 2009 American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month Poster Contest. The selected artist will receive $2,000 and their artwork will be reproduced into a poster for nationwide distribution.

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Actors - Actress: Wes Studi Filmography
Posted on Monday, January 14 @ 22:29:28 CST (3307 reads)

Wesley Studie has since appeared in 52 film and television productions, including 500 Nations, Big Guns Talk, Broken Chains, Crazy Horse, Dances With Wolves, Deep Rising, The Doors, Heat, Highlander, Ice Planet, The Killing Jar, Lone Justice 2, The Last of the Mohicans, Mystery Men, Ned Blessings, Pow Wow Highway, Geronimo: An America Legend, Comanche Moon, Streets of Laredo, Mystery Men, The New World, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee and Seraphim Falls. Here is his complete filmography, as well as information on his stage appearances and children's books.

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Actors - Actress: Wes Studi, Cherokee actor
Posted on Monday, January 14 @ 22:29:20 CST (13208 reads)

Wesley Studie was born December 17, 1947, at Norfire Hollow, Oklahoma,near Tahlequah. He was the eldest of four sons of Andy Studie, a ranch hand, and Maggie Nofire. Wesley is a full blood Cherokee. He later dropped the "e" from his last name when he began his acting career and shortened his first name to Wes. Wes Studi did not become an actor until he was 40 years old.

Wes Studi, as he is known in Hollywood, spoke only the Cherokee language until he was five years old, when he was sent to Chilocco Indian Boarding School in Northern Oklahoma, where he remained until high school graduation. Unlike many young victims of the boarding schools, he did not forget his language.

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Artists->Sculptors: Billionaire donates $5 million to Crazy Horse Memorial
Posted on Wednesday, December 26 @ 04:22:17 CST (4090 reads)

AUTHOR: Carson Walker

A South Dakota billionaire banker has pledged a $5 million matching grant to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, the largest ever in the mountain carving's nearly 60 year history.

T. Denny Sanford of Sioux Falls, a longtime supporter of the project that honors American Indians, initially wanted to remain anonymous but allowed his name to be released if it would help the fundraising effort, said Ruth Ziolkowski, president and CEO.

Her husband, the late Korczak Ziolkowski, started the project in 1948 and she has led the project since his death in 1982.

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Artists->Painters: Five American Indian Artists to be exhibited in US Embassies
Posted on Sunday, November 18 @ 15:10:52 CST (2997 reads)

AUTHOR: Lauren Monsen, USINFO Staff Writer

Norman Akers (Osage), Mario Martinez (Yaqui), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead Salish) and Marie Watt (Seneca) -- artists who often utilize traditional American Indians motifs in unexpected ways -- were selected by the U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian to have their work showcased overseas in U.S. embassies worldwide, introducing foreign audiences to the richness and variety of contemporary American Indian art.

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Museums->New York: Sitting Bull self portrait
Posted on Saturday, August 04 @ 02:06:34 CDT (6172 reads)

AUTHOR: by Amanda May Whistle

When Sitting Bull drew Self-Portrait in Battle in 1874, two years before the Battle of Little Bighorn, he drew himself not only as he was, but also how he saw himself spiritually.

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Museums->Oklahoma: Philbrook Museum of Art and University of Oklahoma receive 50 million dollar native art collection
Posted on Thursday, August 02 @ 01:46:37 CDT (3408 reads)

The Adkins Collection of native art is among the most important private collections of work by Taos artists and other native americans in the US. It contains more than 3,300 pieces of art in a number of native american art categories.

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Actors - Actress: Nunavut film trade show gives casting call for 2 Inuk actresses
Posted on Friday, April 27 @ 23:26:05 CDT (5081 reads)

Days after British film star Ralph Fiennes visited Nunavut looking for an Inuk actress for his directorial debut, a second highly regarded industry veteran has travelled to the North to do the same.

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Artists->Silversmith: The differences between Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo jewelry styles
Posted on Wednesday, April 25 @ 14:23:37 CDT (7539 reads)

The most popular jewelry styles from the Southwest are made by the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni and Santo Domingo tribes. While individual artists may make jewelry in a style usually associated with a particular tribe that may not be their own, these are the general, most common differences in the jewelry styles created by these Southwest tribes.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Eastern Band of Cherokee announces new art school
Posted on Friday, March 30 @ 19:13:39 CDT (5318 reads)

AUTHOR: Lynne Harlan

Art is a term foreign in the Cherokee language and many other native languages because art does not exist in the Cherokee life view. However, the expression of creativity has long held deep significance and has transcended the mere construction of an art object.

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Art->Fetishes: Indian Fetishes
Posted on Tuesday, May 23 @ 16:48:45 CDT (10242 reads)

AUTHOR: Joe Douthitt

Indian fetishes are Southwest tribal miniature carvings that some say are imbued with spirit forces.

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Art->Blankets/Rugs: Indian Trade Blankets
Posted on Tuesday, May 23 @ 13:51:06 CDT (5140 reads)

Whether woven by a Native American or mass-produced by American woolen mills on a Jacquard loom, the blanket is a constant of Native American life and it is inextricably tied to the tradition of trade in the Southwest.

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Artists->Painters: Gary Ampel, Native American and Wildlife Artist
Posted on Wednesday, November 16 @ 01:30:48 CST (21567 reads)

Gary Ampel a Wildlife artist who also captures on canvas the majesty of the American Plains Indians.

He paints in a realistic style, working in oils and acrylics. Gary Ampel has been a professional artist and portrait painter for the past thirty eight years.

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Artists->Painters: Famed Navajo artist R.C. Gorman dead at age 74
Posted on Friday, November 04 @ 23:28:56 CST (6370 reads)

Famed Navajo artist R.C. Gorman is dead at the age of 74.

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