
Issue No. 39, Summer 2023
(July–September)
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Features
- Gutskin Sewing in Alaska
By Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 32–40 - Gutskin by Glenda McKay
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 42–43 - Legacies of Black-and-White Pueblo Pottery
By Michelle J. Lanteri, PhD, 44–49 - Barniz de Pasto: The Magic of Colombia’s Mopa Mopa
By Madeline Sobral (Cherokee Nation), 52–59 - Counterpublic 2023: A Mound City Triennial
By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 60–66
Artist Profiles
- Avis Charley: Spirit Lake Dakota/Diné Painter and Ledger Artist
By Paul Niemi, 70–75 - Ahkima Honyumptewa: Hopi Textile Artist and Painter
By Jill Ahlberg Yohe, PhD, 76–81 - Ira Lujan: Taos/Ohkay Owingeh Glass Artist
By Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 82–87 - Melanie Yazzie: Navajo Printmaker, Painter, Sculptor, and Jeweler
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 88–93

Departments
- Editor’s Greeting by America Meredith, 14–15
- Recent Developments by Liam Hart and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 19–21
- In Memoriam: Margaret Archuleta, by Lee-Ann Martin (Mohawk) and India Rael Young, PhD, 22–23
- Seven Directions | Kevin Coochwytewa (Isleta Pueblo/Hopi), 25–30
- Art+Literature
- Michelle Good: Cree Writer, Poet, and Lawyer
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 114–16 - Kaylene Big Knife (Chippewa Cree)
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 117
- Michelle Good: Cree Writer, Poet, and Lawyer
- Calendar, 124–28
Reviews and Reports
- Exhibition Reviews
- Boise, ID | The Art of Jean LaMarr, Boise Art Museum
By Nanette Kelley (Osage/Cherokee Nations), 96–97 - Lethbridge, AB | My mind is with the weather, Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin
By Yvonne N. Tiger (Cherokee Nation/Seminole/Muscogee), 98–99 - New York | Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest, Bard Graduate Center Gallery
By Sháńdíín Brown, 99–100 - Pawhuska, OK | Seven Bends in the River of Life, Osage Nation Museum
By heather ahtone, PhD (Chickasaw/Choctaw), 101–02
Reno | The Art of Ben Aleck, Nevada Museum of Art
By Tsanavi Spoonhunter (Northern Arapaho/Northern Paiute), 102–103 - St. Louis, MO | Fay HeavyShield: Confluences, Pulitzer Arts Foundation
By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 103–04 - Santa Fe | California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 105–07 - Toronto | Kent Monkman: Being Legendary, Royal Ontario Museum
By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 109–10
- Boise, ID | The Art of Jean LaMarr, Boise Art Museum
- Reports
- London, ON | Kelly Greene, Artist Residency, Western University
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 110–12 - Tulsa | Gilcrease in Your Neighborhood, Gilcrease Museum
By Heather A. Hope, 112–13
- London, ON | Kelly Greene, Artist Residency, Western University
Memorials
- Ron Carlos (Salt River Piipaash-Akimel O’odham, 1970–2023)
By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 118 - Benjamin Harjo Jr. (Absentee Shawnee/Seminole, 1945–2023)
By Kenneth Williams Jr. (Northern Arapaho/Cattaraugus Seneca), 119 - Presley LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, 1956–2023)
By Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), 120 - Michael McCabe (Diné, 1961–2023)
By Grace Rosario Perkins (Diné/Akimel O’odham), 121 - Rose Kerstetter (Oneida Nation, 1918–2023)
Hoka Skenandore (Oneida/Oglala Lakota/Luiseño/Chicano), 122 - Joe Senungetuk
By Christopher W. Smith, 123