Aug 21, 2023 | Announcements, Blog, Events, Great Lakes, Indigenous Peoples, Museum Guides, Native American, Public Programs
By Alisa Nordholt-Dean, vice president for public programs and Beeler Family director of education Eiteljorg Guides regularly lead students from school field trips on tours of the new Native American Galleries exhibition, “Expressions of Life: Native Art in North...
Jul 30, 2023 | Blog, Contemporary, Eiteljorg Insider, Fellowship, Fellowship Artists, Native American
By Elias Garza Garcia, former curatorial assistant Teresa Marshall (Millbrook First Nation Mi’kmaq, born 1962) Bering Strait Jacket #1, 1994, silkscreened fabric straightjacket with acrylic paint; fabric pants with acrylic paint; silk scarf with acrylic paint, metal,...
Jul 13, 2023 | Announcements, Festivals & Events, Indian Market and Festival, Indigenous Peoples, Native American, Press Release, Press Releases
Work by artists in high demand at market where $38,000 in prize money was awarded Kelly Church (Gun Lake Tribe) of Hopkins, Michigan When the Stars & Dawn Collide, 2023 9 x 4 7/8 inches Black ash plaited woven with fine silver overlay loops, tobacco offering tied...
Jun 20, 2023 | Announcements, Eiteljorg Insider, Latino and Hispanic cultures, Native American, Press Release, Press Releases
Five new directors, eight new advisors bring diversity and experience to museum June 20, 2023: INDIANAPOLIS – The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art welcomes five new members to its Board of Directors and eight new members to its Community Board of...
May 14, 2023 | Blog, Eiteljorg Insider, Exhibitions, Indigenous Peoples, Native American, Project 2021 News
By Dorene Red Cloud (Oglala Lakota), curator of Native American art The new Native American Galleries are organized on the themes of Relation, Continuation and Innovation. The Eiteljorg Museum’s newly re-envisioned Native American Galleries opened in June 2022 with...
May 14, 2023 | Announcements, Blog, Eiteljorg Insider, Latino and Hispanic cultures, Native American
By Johanna M. Blume, curator of Western art history and culture, and 2023 co-chair of the Eiteljorg DEAI Council In the midst of pandemic illness and worldwide systemic inequity and discrimination which came to a head in 2020, Black, Indigenous and People of Color...