For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.
Erin Joyce
Erin Joyce is a writer and curator of contemporary art and has organized over 35 exhibitions across the US. She was a winner of the 2023 Rabkin Prize for arts journalism from The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation and has received attention for her work in Vogue Magazine, the New York Times, the Art Newspaper, Forbes Magazine, the Economist, the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic, and Widewalls. Joyce lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Shining a Light on First California Artists
California Stars illuminates contributions to contemporary art that have been long ignored and excluded from the standard Euro-American canon.
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Deborah Roberts’s Elegy for Lost Innocence
Roberts centers the beauty and vulnerability of Black children, which is often seized from them at a young age via systemic violence in the United States.
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Two Native Artists Want to Reclaim Their Landscapes and Textiles
Steven J. Yazzie and Patrick Dean Hubbell dismantle blatant distillations of Native visuality for profit that continue to commit and perpetrate harm against Indigenous artists and communities.
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How Gary Simmons Embraces the In-Between
In both his approach to art making and in the subject matter he explores, Simmons foregrounds the unknown as an integral part of his process.
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Highlights From a Busy Weekend at the Santa Fe Indian Market
The 101st edition of the Native arts festival featured 800 artists and extensive programming.
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Marie Watt Invites You to Hug a Jingle Cloud
Touch is at the core of Watt’s latest body of work, featuring hanging metal sculptures that echo the energy and spirit of a Native powwow.
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Artists Decry “Censorship” of Shepard Fairey Anti-Police Artwork
The city of Mesa canceled a series of shows of political street art just weeks after the museum refused to withdraw Fairey’s work depicting a police officer in riot gear.
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Raven Halfmoon’s Monuments to Mothers
Sculpting voluptuous figures with richly dynamic surfaces creates a shared humanity between Halfmoon, the artwork, and the viewer.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Her Life’s Journey in Art
“In this long journey, it is step by step, hand over hand, something like climbing a rope,” she tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Bobby Wilson Combats Indigenous Stereotypes Through Humor
The artist-performer’s career undulates, ever so gracefully, across multiple mediums and registers of generational pain, healing laughter, and Indigenous joy.
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Some Important Questions About Artist Legacies
How is legacy defined, who defines it, whom does it serve?
