FAAM No. 46, Spring 2025 (April–June). Cover art is quillwork by Melissa Peter-Paul (Mi’kmaw).
Issue No. 46, Spring 2025
(April–July)
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Features
- The Artist Who Reconstructed Maya Blue
By Mark Viales, 26–34 - Maya vs. Mayan
By Mark Viales, 34 - Tlingit Button Blankets: Tailoring Cultural Change
By Kariel Galbraith (Tlingit), 36–43 - To Weave with Grass: A Precious Wild Resource
By Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 44–49 - Riding the Waves of History: How Installation Art Reclaims and Indigenizes Space
By Sarah Anne Stolte, 50–55
Coiled grass basketry start by Kelly Lincoln (Yup’ik). Image courtesy of Kelly Lincoln.
Artist Profiles
- Dakota Mace: Diné Interdisciplinary Artist
By Heidi K. Brandow (Diné/Kānaka Maoli), 58–63 - Jared Nally: Myaamia Textile Artist
By Christy Hanson (Diné), 64–69 - Melissa Peter-Paul: Mi’kmaw Quill Artist
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 70–75 - Jonathan Thunder: Red Lake Band Ojibwe Painter, Animator & Filmmaker
By Sheila Regan, 76–81
Departments
- Recent Developments, by Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 13–18
- Seven Directions, by Hunter C. Old Elk (Apsáalooke/Yakama), 21–25
- Art+Literature
- Eddie Chuculate: Muscogee/Cherokee Novelist & Journalist
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 102–104 - Dan Beaver (Muscogee)
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 105
Gunstock war club by Dan Beaver (Muscogee).
- Eddie Chuculate: Muscogee/Cherokee Novelist & Journalist
- Calendar, by Abby Mikalauskas, Staci Golar, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 109–112
Reviews
- Exhibition Reviews, 82–96
- Bentonville, AR | Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West
Review by Emily C. Burns, PhD, 82–84 - Evanston, IL | Woven Being: Art from Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Block Museum of Art
Review by Noelle Garcia (Klamath/Northern Paiute), 85–86 - Grand Ronde, OR | Transgressors, Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center
Review by Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent), 87–88 - Hanover, NH | Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), Hood Museum of Art
Review by Peter Letzelter-Smith, 89–90 - Minneapolis | Smart Wars by Rory Wakemup, All My Relations Arts
Review by Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation), 91–92 - Oklahoma City | Cheyenne Ledger Artists of Fort Marion, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Review by James G. Bland, 92–93 - Taos | Taos Painted Stories, Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
Review by Michelle J. Lanteri, PhD, 94–95 - Tulsa | WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism, Philbrook Musuem of Art
Review by Abby Mikalauskas, 95–96
- Bentonville, AR | Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West
- Film Review
- Rez Ball, directed by Sydney Freeland (Diné)
Review by Angela Startz (Inupiaq), 97–98
- Rez Ball, directed by Sydney Freeland (Diné)
- Music Review
- Horizons, Northern Arizona University
Review by Thollem, 99–100
- Horizons, Northern Arizona University
- Book Review
- Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, by Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Review by Ruth Thomas, 100–101
- Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, by Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Memorials
- Martha Gorman Schultz (Diné, 1931–2025)
By Christy Hanson (Diné), 106 - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Shoshone, 1940–2025)
By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 107 - Lillie T. Taylor (Diné, 1931–2024)
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 108