Tag Archives: Contemporary Native American art

  1. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Joy Harjo in Seattle

          Jaune Quick To See Smith (center)and her Son Neal Ambrose-Smith with Whitney Curator Laura Phipps at “Memory Map,” exhibition in Seattle Art Museum, in front of Gifts for Trading Lands With White People       Jo Harjo reading her poem “Running” from her book An American Sunrise   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vwqWJsJiI   During […]

  2. Natalie Ball Betty Bowen Award Winner at the Seattle Art Museum

    The Betty Bowen award winner Natalie Ball (Modoc, Klamath) has installed a provocative pair of works in the Seattle Art Museum . Ball is descended from the famous leader of the late nineteenth century Modoc resistance, Captain Jack. That heritage of warrior defiance is obvious here. You Mist, again (Rattle) and Re Run make up […]