First American Art Magazine No. 0, Spring 2013

SPRING 2013 FEATURES REVIEWS More Than Just a Trend: Rethinking the ‘Native’ in Native Fashion Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) 36 Something Imperialistic Happened on the Way to the Louvre: Délégation Amérindienne 2012, An Artist’s Perspective 40 56 “The Way We Live: American Indian Art Of The Great Basin And The Sierra Nevada” Melissa Melero (Fallon Paiute-Modoc) 59 “Real N.D.N.–Native Diaspora Now” 60 America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation) Northern Lights: Greenlandic Art in the 21st Century America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) “Biennale of Sydney: all our relations” Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) 46 “Arte Textil Contemporáneo” Sarah Sense (Chitimacha-Choctaw) 62 DEPARTMENTS ARTIST PROFILES Recent Developments Orlando Dugi (Diné) Teri Greeves (Kiowa-Comanche) 10 Anita Fields (Osage-Muscogee) Denise Neil-Binion (Delaware-Cherokee) 18 Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) 24 Erin Shaw (Chickasaw-Choctaw) America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) 30 Left, from top: Tom Jones, detail of Powell Littlejohn, 2012, digital print, 25 x 20 in. Orlando Dugi. detail of Celestial Phoenix, 2010, beaded sting ray leather handbag. Erin Shaw, detail of On the Grave of Dreams, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in. Anita Fields, Begin with Your Left, 2012, clay slips, under glaze, gold luster glaze, 4½ x 8½ in. 8 Exploring Native Graphic Design Neebinnaukzhik Southall (Chippewas of Rama First Nation) 10 Pueblo Revolt Reid Gómez (Navajo) Illustrations by Bryon Archuleta (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) 68 Book Reviews In Memoriam Numbers 63 77 76 Cover: Erin Shaw, Be Prepared, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in. From the Meritocracy series: “This series is not about birds, or merit badges, or The Boy Scouts of America, or some metanarrative where birds or merit badges are a metaphor for people and our daily strife toward a definable identity. This series, these layers, these multiple mediums are a challenge, an invitation to consider paradox, unanswered questions, accidents, truths, paradigms.” –Erin Shaw Back cover: Melissa Melero, Category X, 2011, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 in. “Category X is a response to everything Native being put into categories and boxes, instead of seeing Native art simply being art made by Natives.–Melissa Melero SPRING 2013 3

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