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...
May 11, 2023 | Blog, Fellowship, Fellowship Artists, Native American
Rick Rivet (Sahtu / Métis, born 1949) Beothuck Mound No. 11, 1997 acrylic with collaged pieces of canvas and string on canvas 54 3/8 × 55 in. (138.1 × 139.7 cm) Museum purchase from the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art with funds provided by E. Andrew...
May 4, 2023 | Blog, Eiteljorg Insider, Great Lakes, Native American, Public Programs
Dee Ketchum (Delaware Tribe of Indians) in performance in Anderson, Ind., in 2014 Photo by Don Knight, Anderson Herald Bulletin Dee Ketchum and his wife Annette Ketchum have had a long connection and friendship with the Eiteljorg. During the museum’s early years, they...
