The Eiteljorg Museum is dedicated to inspiring an appreciation of the American West and the Indigenous peoples of North America. America's story contains the many stories of diverse peoples that make the country great. EM Radio brings those stories, and the latest news on museum exhibits and events, to you. Be sure to check out our video podcast EMTV. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_WhatsHappening/Podcasts/default.asp Copyright Eiteljorg Museum ascott@eiteljorg.com Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:01:18 EST http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_WhatsHappening/images/EMRadio.jpg http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_WhatsHappening/Podcasts/default.asp Storyteller Sue Thompson tells us the story of Stagecoach Mary. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Stagecoach_Mary.mp3 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:01:18 EST In this recording from Feb. 10, 2010, Dr. Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI, discusses her background in African American History as well as highlighting several key points that will be shared during her upcoming lecture entitled, Jim Crow in the Mile High City. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/modupe_labode_EM_radio_2_10.mp3 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:37:07 EST On this episode we talk with the director of the Dec. 13 performance of The Calico Apron to be performed here at the museum. She goes through the history of the play and the events that led up to the writing of this piece. It is a fictional story based on the Cherokee grandmother's experience on the Trail of Tears. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/The_Calico_Apron.mp3 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:42:34 EST <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">This episde we talk with Richard Gabriel, who lives in the Sandia Mountains of central New Mexico. He is an artisan who works in the style of the early tin workers of the 1800’s. New Mexico has been known for tin artwork for nearly two centuries when the art came from Mexico with the opening of the Santa Fe Trail.</SPAN></P> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Richard_Gabriel_11_3_09.mp3 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:28:05 EST John Well-Off-Man was born and raised in Havre, Montana, and on the Rocky Boy Reservation. After receiving his diploma in photography from Ohio Visual Art Institute, he studied printmaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. John worked as a photographer/film developer for Instructional Media Services at the University of Montana. During this time he also produced exhibits for the Missoula Historical Society and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library of the University of Montana. He produced the visual exhibit “Their Eyes Tell Everything,” a photo-history for the Montana Chippewa-Cree. The exhibit is now in the permanent collection of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/John_Welloffman_10_12_09.mp3 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:51:57 EST Artist in Residence Bruce Hucko sat down and talked with David R Boxley (Tsimshian) and talked with him about his culture. During the conversation David sings some traditional songs as well as one he wrote himself. Hucko was at the Eiteljorg Museum as an artist in residence and he also documented Indian Market and Festival during his time here. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Boxley_Travel_Song_LONG.mp3 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:48:39 EST Listen in as John Vanausdall, Eiteljorg president and CEO, Jonathan Hess, architect with Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf and architect of the Eiteljorg Museum and Roger Eiteljorg, museum's board chair and son of museum founder Harrison Eiteljorg. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_29_4_27_09.mp3 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:25:27 EST This week guest host Angela Hurley, the Eiteljorg's membership manager, talks with Indiana's former first lady, Judy O'Bannon. They talk about Mrs. O'Bannon's experiences through the history of the museum and what being a member has meant to her. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_28_4_10_09.mp3 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:16:07 EST On this episode, we talk with artist in residence Marty Gradolf (Winnebago). She is a weaver and works to make statements with her work. She started from very practical means with placemats and the like and now teaches and creates beautiful work making statements on Native American issues. Her work can be found in the collection of the Eiteljorg Museum in the special exhibtion <EM>Facing West: Celebrating 20 years of the Eiteljorg Museum</EM>. Find more information about Marty on our show notes page <A href="http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_AudioVideo/shownotes.asp">www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_AudioVideo/shownotes.asp</A>. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_27_3_25_09.mp3 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:25:40 EST This week we talk with Modupe Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI. She talks with us about slavery and the emancipation proclamation and its impacts in the Colorado Territory. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_26_2_17_09.mp3 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:28:43 EST <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This week we talk with Dan Piraro, creator of the nationally-syndicated, panel cartoon, Bizarro. Piraro is an artist in residence at the museum.</SPAN> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_25_1_21_09.mp3 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:41:57 EST John Pigeon is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. He specializes in black ash basketry which involves pounding the wood of a black ash tree until he can pull long strips from it. His knowledge of basketry comes from his parents and grandparents and he continues the tradition with his children who have also become weavers. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_24_12_22_08.mp3 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:03:23 EST Miles and Fields, artists-in-residence at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, shared their unique creativity with IPS students, joining budding artists from Arsenal Tech High School, Harshman Middle School and Schools 14 and 54, to create a mural that will travel to each of the schools and find a permanent home at the John H. Boner Community Center on the Indianapolis' East Side. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_23_12_3_08.mp3 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:34:14 EST On this segment of Storytime with Sue, she presents the holiday classic 12 Days of Christmas but with a little twist. The music found in this podcast is by The Mystery Renderer. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_22_11_21_08.mp3 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:38:23 EST This week we talk to Kendra Tagoona and Charlotte Qamaniq both throat singers from Ottawa, Canada. They let us in on how they got into throat singing, the history of it and what throat singing is. Visit the Our Land opening events page on our Website to see an <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGM0BlA95I">example</A> of throat singing. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_21_11_14_08.mp3 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:05:28 EST This week Tamara Winfrey Harris speaks with artist-in-residence Catalina Degado Trunk. While Catalina Delgado Trunk's academic art training focused on painting and drawing, her current work is rooted in the folk arts of her native Mexico. Catalina integrates traditional Mexican art forms–such as public <I>ofrendas</I> (temporary altars) and <I>papel picado (</I>cut paper)–with non-traditional or unusual themes that reflect today’s society. Trunk talks about how most of her works of art consist of altars or cut paper images that echo mythical, spiritual, and religious iconography or honor historic and contemporary personalities. In this episode she talks about her work and the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_20_10_17_08.mp3 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:17:41 EST This week producer Anthony Scott takes the reigns for an interview with Baxter Black. This cowboy poet and former large animal vet tells some great stories of the range and how got started. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_19_8_7_08.mp3 Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:01:29 EST This week, host, Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with Kristen Kuntz. She is interning with the marketing and communications department of the musem and talks about what she likes about the museum. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_18_7_25_08.mp3 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:35:55 EST This week we talk with Alex Neff, a marketing intern for the Eiteljorg Museum, as she tells us about some of the things she enjoys about the museum and how the museum's collection has similarities to European styles of art. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_17_7_10_2008.mp3 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:56:50 EST Storytime with Sue returns as she tells us Mark Twain's tale of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_16_6_27_08.mp3 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:41:26 EST This week host, Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with TahNibaa Naataani, whos is a Navajo weaver; Tony Showa, a Navajo drum maker; and Jody Rust, who is a cast worker for the American Indian Center in Indianapolis and also was a teacher on a Navajo reservation. They discuss ther experiences on the reservation, as artists and more. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_15_4_11_08.mp3 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:36:01 EST This week on EM Radio we sit down with katsina artist, Debbie Drye (Hopi). She talks about her experiences as a women artist in an artform dominated by men and how that has impacted her work. She also tells us about how she bcame an artist in this medium and what katsinas are. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_14_3_14_08.mp3 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:41:53 EST Vice President and chief curatorial officer, James Nottage talks to Tamara this week about the Exidusters. Find out how this group of African Americans impacted the settlement of the West. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_13_2_29_08.mp3 Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:57:22 EST Leading up to the American Girl Kaya day at the Eitlejorg Museum Sue Thompson, EM Radio's resident storyteller, tells the Nez Pearce story of snowshoe rabbit and cottontail rabbit. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_12_2_22_08.mp3 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:32:32 EST This week we talk to Ashley Holland about the new exhibti Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers. This exhibition <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">explores the reclamation of Indigenous people’s visual representation through photography.</SPAN> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_11_2_14_08.mp3 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:46:06 EST This is the second part of the Wounded Knee symposium on Jan. 26, 2008. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Symposium_pt_2.mp3 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:14:41 EST Hear the Wounded Knee Symposium from Jan. 26, 2008. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Symposium_pt_1.mp3 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:11:53 EST This week we talk with artist-in-residence James Watkins. He is known for his incredible work with ceramics. During his weeklong residency, Watkins will work with visiting school groups, conduct a public raku firing using a raku kiln, and offer a lecture on his work. The artist was the focus of the 2005 Eiteljorg exhibit A Meditation of Fire: The Art of James C. Watkins. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_10_2_1_08.mp3 Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:36:56 EST Coming in January the Eiteljorg Museum will explore both incidents at Wounded Knee. It will all culminate with a symposium that will include participants in the 1973 incident at Wounded Knee. This week we talk with Larry Zimmerman, the museum's public scholar of Native American representation. He talks about both incidents at Wounded Knee, their relevance to the American Indian Movement and what it means to us today. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_9_12_14_07.mp3 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:09:23 EST This week, storyteller Sue Thompson tells the story of the Cowboy Night before Christmas. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_8_12_7_07.mp3 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:59:13 EST <P>Our resident storyteller, Sue Thompson, tells us a story adapted from the book, 'The Night of Las Posadas' by Tomie dePaola.</P> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_7_11_29_07.mp3 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:24:14 EST On Dec. 1 the Eiteljorg Museum will host the sixth annual Winter Market. This year more than 50 artists from accross the region will be here selling their works including glass, beadwork, gourds, paintings and more. Also, there will be performances by Monika Herzig, Cathy Morris and others. This week we talk with Cathy Morris. This electric violin player offers a very eclectic sound fusing jazz, funk and more. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_6_11_20_07.mp3 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:56:55 EST <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Veronica Passalacqua, Ph.D. presents her paper 'Developing Dynamics: The Field of Native American Photography'</SPAN> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Veronica_Passalacqua32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:12:32 EST Elizabeth Kalbfleisech presents her paper 'Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil' http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Elizabeth_Kalbfleisch32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:10:33 EST Aldona Jonaitis presents her paper 'Four Young Artists and the Future of Southeast Alaska Native Art' http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Aldona_Jonaitis32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:05:59 EST Nancy Marie Mithlo, Ph.D. presents her paper 'The New Thing is Old News: Why Post-Identity Claims Are Regressive' http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Nancy_Marie_Mithlo32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:04:37 EST <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Dawn Glinsmann, Ph.D. presents her paper '<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Teaching</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Contemporary</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Northwest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Native American Art: Artists as Teachers; Students as Docents'</FONT></SPAN> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Dawn_Glinsmann32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:00:45 EST Jaune Quick-to-See Smith presented the keynote address at the lunch for the 2007 Fellowship symposium. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Jaune_Quick_to_See_Smith32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:58:57 EST Distinguished Artist<BR><BR>James A. Luna (Luiseño)<BR>Performance art and installation<BR>Pauma Valley, California<BR><BR>James Luna has said, “…performance and installation offers an opportunity like no other for Native Americans to express themselves.” Luna, who has performed and exhibited installations throughout the United States and internationally in Europe and Asia, often uses his body as a means to critique the objectification of Native American cultures in Western museum and cultural displays. In <I>Artifact Piece 1985-1987</I>, he donned a loincloth and lay motionless “on exhibit” in a bed of sand inside an exhibition case at the Museum of Man in San Diego. The performance piece called attention to a tendency of Western museums to present Native American culture as extinct. In 2005, Luna represented the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian at the 2005 Venice Biennale in Italy. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/James_Luna32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:34:57 EST William Wilson (Diné)<BR>Photography and installation<BR>Tucson, Arizona<BR><BR>Will Wilson has exhibited his work throughout the United States and is represented at the Heard Museum’s Berlin Gallery. “My work is a response to the ways in which photography has been used as a mechanism of colonization,” he says. “Decolonizing photography for the use of American Indians has to occur through the articulation of a Native representational subjectivity. In the place of colonizing representation, I want to produce images and sensory experience, which convey representations of, by and for American Indians. This means developing a methodological practice, a framework from which to draw upon. It is towards these ends that I see my work progressing.” http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/William_Wilson32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:33:30 EST Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Inupiaq / Athabascan)<BR>Installation and mixed media paintings<BR>Anchorage, Alaska<BR><BR>Sonya Kelliher-Combs has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Asia. The artist explains, “Through mixed media painting and sculpture I offer a chronicle of the ongoing struggle for self-definition and identity in the Alaskan context. Through the combination of shared iconography with intensely personal imagery, I demonstrate the generative power that each vocabulary has over the other. Similarly, my use of synthetic, organic, traditional and modern materials moves beyond oppositions between Western/ Native culture, self/ other and man/ nature. These elements combine to examine their interrelationships and interdependence while also questioning accepted notions of beauty. My process dialogues the relationship of the work to skin, the surface by which an individual is mediated in culture.” http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Sonya_Kelliher_Combs32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:32:10 EST Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil (Tlingit / Nisgaá)<BR>Photography<BR>Boise, Idaho<BR><BR>Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil has exhibited his work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. Among other honors, McNeil is a 2006 recipient of the National Geographic All Roads Project Award. “I have been working on this fly by night mythology work for quite sometime now. It started out as a look at our Tlingit traditional stories with Raven the Changeling and Trickster playing the protagonist,” says the artist. “Some of the early work was about Raven having a conversation with Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa and musing about why George Washington is revered as an icon father of our country and Chief Pontiac has essentially become a car name, especially after Chief Pontiac defeated Washington and the British in a battle defending their homeland against the foreign invaders. I was striving to make a piece that was iconic and larger than life…” http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Larry_McNeil32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:28:12 EST Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla)<BR>Mixed media<BR>Anza, California<BR><BR>“I’m a California Indian, one part traditionalist, one part Disneyland. I want my work to express the passion, pain, and reverence I feel as a contemporary Native person,” says Gerald Clarke, whose mixed media work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe. The artist adds, “My ultimate goal as an artist is to give Indian culture back the humanity which has been taken from it by stereotypes created over the past five centuries. Neither the super-shaman nor the drunken-Indian do anything to convey what we as a people feel. In my work, I look for the unconventional beauty one finds only in TRUTHS. It celebrates, it mourns and it outshines all else. I feel that craftsmanship is the highest of virtues. It conveys pride, respect and authority. I have no chosen or recognizable visual style. My style is in the approach.” http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Gerald_Clarke32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:09 EST Dana Claxton (Lakota)<BR>Video Installation and Photography<BR>Vancouver, British Columbia<BR><BR>Through her art practice, Dana Claxton has critiqued many aspects of government, religion and consumer culture as they affect and disaffect contemporary Aboriginal peoples in Canada and the United Sates. She has produced many single-channel works, video installations and performances in the past decade. Pieced together, these projects form a subversive societal critique using traditional knowledge and contemporary art interface. Claxton is a 2006 ImagiNATION honoree. Her artwork is in the permanent art collections of many institutions across Canada, including the Canada Council Art Bank, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Winnipeg Art Gallery. Her work is also found in numerous library collections. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Dana_Claxton32K.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:25:12 EST This week, we talk about what is going to be going on at the Eiteljorg Museum over the Thanksgiving weekend. We also hear the story of the three sisters from storyteller, Sue Thompson. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_5_11_16_07.mp3 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:51:30 EST This week, Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator of contemporary art, sits down with James Luna, 2007 Fellowship distingushed artist. Luna talks about the elements that make up his piece <EM>Emendatio</EM>. He also discusses his recent trip to Venice, Italy for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and his piece he performed in March at IUPUI. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_4_11_9_07.mp3 Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:55:28 EST This week, host Tamara Winfrey Harris talks to Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator of contemporary art and organizer of the Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship for Native American Fine Art. You will also hear excerpts from "Fire, Movement, Water and Voices," a performance by James Luna, 2007 Fellowship Distinguished Artist. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_3_10_30_07.mp3 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:26:01 EST Cathy Burton, Beeler Family director of education, tells the tale of ghostly noises coming from an old Episcopal church in Cheyenne, Wyoming. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_2_10_25_07.mp3 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:43:58 EST EM Radio is a new weekly podcast from the Eiteljorg Musuem. We will explore the West and Native America with special guest artists, performers and museum staff. This week, host Tamara Winfrey Harris talks with the museum's education center manager, Linda Montag-Olson, about Day of the Dead and the celebration at the Eiteljorg Museum. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Episode_1_10_16_07.mp3 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:39:23 EST <P>Author, Dr. Tiya Miles, presented a lecture on the history of the relationship between African Americans and Native Americans.</P> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/TiyaMiles.mp3 Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:42:56 EST Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator of contemporary art, interviews Marcus Amerman (Choctaw) who reveals how he creates his revolutionary beaded works. He also talks about the signature piece he is creating for the 14th Annual Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/amermaninterview.mp3 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:07:19 EST The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art hosted a discussion of the film, Brokeback Mountain. The panel consisted of members from film festival, scholars and an art critic. The audience was also given a chance to offer their own thoughts on the movie and the discussion. http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/brokeback_mountain1.mp3 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:23:31 EST <P>The 2007 Fellowship weekend activities were dedicated to our friend Harry Fonseca, who recently passed away. This is a brief interview shown at opening gala event.</P> http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_MP3/Harry_Fonseca32K.mp3 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:40:50 EST