First American Art Magazine No. 5, Winter 2014 | Page 12

Recent Developments
MUSEUMS
The new director of the Heritage Center
at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine
Ridge, South Dakota, is Jose Rivera.
Rivera is a doctoral candidate at the
University of California, Berkeley, and
served as director of education at Marin
Museum of the American Indian.

ART FAIRS
The fifth Indigenous Intercontinental
Biennial of Art took place in Quito,
Ecuador. Category winners include:
Máximo Laura (Peru), textiles; Techung
(Tibet) and Amanda Guerreño (Argentina),
music; Nadia Sirry (Egypt), Rubén
Ricaurte (Ecuador), and Mártin Gómez,
(Peru ), painting; Manolo Colmenares
(Colombia) and Oscar Hernández
(Colombia), sculpture; Pascual Cori
Huarachi (Bolivia), drawing; Víctor
Neira (Peru), photography; Joel Herencia
(Peru), goldsmithing; Las Lolas (Ecuador),
performing arts and dance; David Martínez
(Peru), comedy; Luciano Mogollón
(Ecuador), Jorge Ponce (Argentina), and
Pascual Misaico Huancahuari (Peru),
printmaking. Luis Eduardo Paucar
(Ecuador) won the Jumandi Young Talent
Award.
The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics
held annually in Fairbanks, Alaska, not only
celebrates strength, agility, and stamina, but
also the arts and humanities. Participants
competed in textiles, fashion, and dance.
First places winners include: Gina Kallock
for Native Dress, Indian Cloth; Tamera
Caption for Native Dress, Indian Hide;
Adrienne Aakaluk Titus for Native Dress,
Eskimo Cloth; Tranquilynna Nageak
and Shaylyn Nageak for Eskimo Native
Baby Regalia, Fur; Elsa Carroll and Alice
Carroll for Eskimo Native Baby Regalia,
Cloth; Elsa Carroll and Alice Carroll for
Indian Native Baby Regalia, Hide; and
Janelle Chapin and Areena Dae Chapin for
Indian Native Baby Regalia, Cloth. For
Native Dance, Nagsragmiut Inland Eskimo
Dancers of Anaktuvuk Pass were the first
place among Eskimo groups, and the Troth
Yeddha’ Dancers, from University of
Alaska, Fairbanks, won first place among
Indian groups.
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SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market
featured 1100 artists, and this year’s Best of
Show winner was Lola Cody (Navajo), for
her 96 x 164-inch weaving. Classification
winners were Gerald Lomaventema
(Hopi) for jewelry; Chris Youngblood
Cutler (Santa Clara) for pottery; Norma
Howard (Choctaw-Chickasaw) for
two-dimensional art; Bryant Honyouti
(Hopi) for wooden Pueblo carvings;
Marvin Oliver (Quinault) for sculpture;
Lola Cody (Navajo) for textiles; Babe
and Carla Hemlock (both Mohawk) for
diverse arts; Joyce, Jessa Rae, and Juanita
Growing Thunder (all Assiniboine-Sioux)
for beadwork/quillwork; Sydney Freeland
(Navajo) for moving images; and Jeremy
Frey (Passamaquoddy) for basketry. Keri
Ataumbi (Kiowa-Comanche) and Jamie
Okuma (Luiseño-Shoshone-Bannock) won
for best collaboration.
The 27th annual Northern Plains Indian
Art Market in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
featured visual artists from the Great Plains
of Canada and the United States. This
year’s Best of Show winner was James Star
Comes Out (Oglala). The “Best of Fine
Arts” award went to Nelson Chasing Hawk
(Sicangu). Dwayne Wilcox (Oglala) won
the “Best of Tribal Arts” award. Division
winners were Nelson Chasing Hawk for
oil and acrylic paintings; Arthur Short
Bull (Oglala) for watercolor, tempera,
gouache, and casein; Charles Her Many
Horses (Sicangu) for drawing; Roger
Broer (Oglala) for printmaking; Nelda
Schrupp (Pheasant Rump Nakota) for 3-D–
additive process; Alfred DeCoteau (Turtle
Mountain Chippewa) for 3-D–subtractive
process; Nelda Schrupp for decorative
metalwork; Todd Bordeaux (Sicangu)
for mixed media; Megan Sweets (Yankton
Dakota) for pottery; Charlene Holy Bear
(Standing Rock Lakota) for traditional-style
beadwork; Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala)
for contemporary beadwork; Emil Her Many
Horses for quillwork; Chantelle Blue Arm
(Cheyenne River Sioux) for quilts; James
Star Comes Out for textile and fabric items;
Emil Her Many Horses for handmade dolls;
Donald Montileaux (Oglala) for traditional
paintings; and Dwayne Wilcox for tribal arts.
The Cherokee Art Market, with
approximately 150 artists in Catoosa,
Oklahoma, is hosted by the Cherokee

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Nation. The market celebrated its ninth
anniversary. This year’s Best of Show
winner was Benjamin Harjo Jr. (ShawneeSeminole). The “Innovator Award” went
to Richard Casey (Muscogee) for his
sculpture. The “Culture Keeper Award,”
for a revived art form, went to Kenneth
Williams (Northern Arapaho-Seneca)
for his elk hoof bag set. Class winners
were Benjamin Harjo Jr. for painting,
Troy Jackson (Cherokee Nation) for
sculpture, Jackie Larson Bread (Blackfeet)
for beadwork/quillwork, Shawna Cain
(Cherokee Nation) for basketry, Alvina
Yepa ( Jemez Pueblo) for pottery, Marie
Janette Martin (Cherokee Nation) for
textiles, Antonio Grant (Eastern CherokeeNavajo) for jewelry, and Sean Rising Sun
Flanagan (Taos Pueblo) for diverse arts.

ART SHOWS
Sam Watts-Scott (Cherokee Nation) won
the Grand Prize in this year’s Cherokee
Homecoming Art Show at the Cherokee
Heritage Center in Park Hill, Oklahoma.
First place category winners were Robin
Stockton for visual arts, Noel Grayson for
traditional arts, Shawna Cain for traditional