Category Archives: Indigenous Art

  1. Indigenous Artists and Contemporary Environmental Issues Part II

    The despoliation of Indigenous reservations through fossil fuel extraction, pipe lines, uranium mining, and many other disastrous environmental policies, is a subject of the work of several prominent Indigenous artists. Currently on view is the work of John Feodorov in the exhibition “In Red Ink,” curated by RYAN! Feddersen at the Museum of Northwest Art, […]

  2. The stunning Olympic Peninsula with brief visits to three Native American tribal cultural events

      Oh how fortunate we are in the Northwest to have the Olympic Peninsula! It is magnificent in mid July. We just completed a wonderful trip there, two nights at a cabin on Neah Bay.   We did the short walk to Cape Flattery, the furthest West point in US and two nights camping at […]

  3. “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977 – 2015”

    “Not Vanishing: Contemporary Native American Art, 1977 – 2015” features 78 works of art by 49 artists from 23 tribes in the Northwest. In all media, and combining aesthetics, politics, history and urgent contemporary issues, this show at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, is not to be missed. It closes on January 3.

  4. Led by Indigenous voices, all ages protest Arctic Drilling

    From Indigenous poets to Raging Grannies, from children and youth to college students, to people of every age, everyone is participating in the protest of Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling platform with creative non violent civil disobedience at its best