ISSUE NO. 19, SUMMER 2018
FEATURES
Great Basin Native Artists: 24 Giving Voice to the Land By Jean Merz-Edwards
The Oklahoma 32 Indian Ballerinas By Stacy Pratt, PhD( Mvskoke)
A New Era begins at SWAIA: 38 Ira Wilson Chosen as Executive Director By Jason Morgan Edwards( Seminole)
Beads on a Thread: 42 Reflections on Beading as Performance, Process, Material, and Method in the Arctic By David Winfield Norman
ARTIST PROFILES
John Brent Bennett: 48 Haida Jeweler, Printmaker, and Sculptor By India Rael Young, PhD
Andrea Carlson: 54 Anishinaabe Painter By Sheila Regan
Yatika Starr Fields: 60 Osage-Muscogee-Cherokee Painter By Jami Powell, PhD( Osage)
Sandy Fife Wilson: 66 Mvskoke Textile Artist and Shell Carver By Stacy Pratt, PhD( Mvskoke)
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DEPARTMENTS
Recent Developments 16
Seven Directions 20 By Denise Neil-Binion, PhD( Delaware-Cherokee)
Collections: 88 St. Louis Art Museum By Andrea L. Ferber, PhD
Calendar 94
REVIEWS
Exhibition Reviews 72
Book Reviews 84
EDITORIAL
Nuances of Censorship 86 By Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD
IN MEMORIAM
James Luna 92( Puyukitchum-Ipai- Mexican American) By Deana Dartt, PhD( Coastal Chumash)
Bahe Whitethorne Jr.( Diné) 93 By America Meredith( Cherokee Nation)
66 cover Yatika Fields( Osage-Muscogee- Cherokee), Prayer for the Bee ' s Return, 2008, oil of canvas, 73 × 71 in. Image courtesy of the Sam Noble Museum, Norman, Oklahoma.
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