2008 March/April Happening (Events)
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By Site Editor
Published on 03/3/2008
Motor
north to the Great Falls Native American Art Show in Montana for its
26th annual gathering, which promises to be the best ever, Plus details
on other special events of Native interest across North America.
Site Editor
Motor
north to the Great Falls Native American Art Show in Montana for its
26th annual gathering, which promises to be the best ever, Plus details
on other special events of Native interest across North America.2008 March/April Happening (Events)
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Head North to Hooves on the Plains
By Daniel Gibson
Shawn
Running Crane painting entitled “One Arrow” will be used for the show’s
poster. Details: 406/452-3608 or 406/216-2676, visitgreatfalls.net,
cmrauction.com
The attention of the Native art world shifts northward to the 26th annual Native American Art Show, this year titled “Hooves on the Plains,” March 13–16, in Great Falls, Montana, held during the town’s annual Western Art Week and the C.M. Russell Art Auction.
“It’s a wonderful event and has the capability of becoming one of the finest events of its kind in the nation,” says Ruthann Knudson, a former National Park Service employee and a volunteer helping to organize this year’s festival.
Some 50 Native artists—most from Montana but others coming from the Southwest and Great Plains—are expected to enter the juried exhibition and sale, which is complemented by a student art show featuring Montana Native youth, and a special show of miniature works in many media. The featured artist this year is sculptor Wayne Gunville (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) of North Dakota. He will be joined by this year’s poster artist, painter and sculptor Shawn Running Crane (Blackfeet) of Great Falls, David Dragonfly (Blackfeet) and other notable talents working in painting, prints, beadwork, glasswork, jewelry, ledger drawing, hide painting and other media.
Complementing the arts and crafts show, being held at the Civic Center, will be a handful of musicians and dancers, including the featured performer, flautist Troy De Roche (Blackfeet). Also planned is a free artists’ reception on March 15 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., with live music, refreshments and remarks. The exhibition will kick off March 13, 6-10 p.m. The awards and live entertainment is scheduled for March 15, 2-6 p.m.
The Native American Art Show is but one of seven major art events taking place in Great Falls that week; another is the renowned C.M. Russell Art Auction, held March 12–15 at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls to raise funds for the C.M. Russell Museum. Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person and the Blackfeet Indian Dancers will perform at 1 p.m. on March 15 in the main auction room.
elsewhere
Catch the curtain rising on Native Voices at the Autry, March 1, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and March 2, 2 p.m., Autry National Center, Los Angeles, when it presents Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation, written by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Nation) and directed by José Cruz González. Autry members $12; general admission $20; children ages 12 and under $12. Also at the Autry’s Wells Fargo Theater is Pathways Plays and Music from Emerging Native American Artists, April 20, 2-4 p.m., in which Native youth combine rich tradition with contemporary stories and sounds. Reservations requested: 323/667-2000, ext. 354, or autrynationalcenter.org
Spend a day at the 8th annual ECHO Performance Arts Festival, March 8, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. The event includes Native storytellers, dancers, musicians and performing artists from Alaska, Hawaii and Massachusetts. 978/745-9500 or pem.org
Head to the Council for Indigenous Arts & Culture All-Native Wholesale Market, March 28–29, Holiday Inn at Denver International Airport, CO, which is organized for Native artist wholesalers and Native-owned businesses. 219/942-9022 or ciaccouncil.org
Don’t miss Appraisal Day, March 29, Heard Museum Phoenix and Heard Museum North Scottsdale, AZ, where leading Native art traders will examine your treasures and provide information about materials, dates, the possible artist and value. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $30 for the first item; $25 for the second item; $20 for the third and subsequent items (10 items per person maximum). 602/251-0261 or heard.org
Drop by the Albuquerque, NM Convention Center for the 2nd annual Indian Art Market, April 10–11 (open to wholesalers, retailers and artists only) and April 12 (for the general public). Hosted by the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, the public event will include artist demonstrations, seminars and book signings. There is also an awards dinner on the night of April 10 for the IACA Artist of the Year presentation. 505/265-9149 or iaca.com
Attend the first annual Global Green Indigenous Film Festival, April 15–18, Santa Fe, NM, held in conjunction with the National Tribal Environmental Council’s 15th annual conference. Some 35 short and feature-length films and videos released since 2005 on environmental topics involving Native lands and peoples from around the world will be screened. A festival pass is $125 and a daily pass $7 ($5 for students or seniors). 505/242-2175 or ntec.org
Hit the Hopi Quilting Workshop, April 16–18, Smoki Museum, Prescott, AZ. Quilters Karen Tootsie, Marlene Sekaquaptewa and Carolyn O’Bagy Davis will demonstrate their craft in conjunction with Common Threads, a Hopi quilt exhibition on display at the museum through June. 928/445-1230 or smokimuseum.org
It’s spring, so that means it’s Toonik Tyme, April 16–20, in Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut. One of the Canadian Arctic’s unique events, launched in 1965, this is a week of music, feasting, games and competitions including igloo building, dog-team races, seal-skinning contests, sea-ice golf played with fluorescent balls, snowmobile races, an arts and crafts fair (with stone carvings, and handmade fur-lined mitts, parkas and other traditional clothing), a bannock-baking contest, and other activities. 867/975-8510 or tooniktyme.com
Don’t miss the Art Under the Oaks Festival, April 19-20, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, OK, held outdoors on lovely lawns with some 40 artists and crafters from the Five Civilized Tribes, plus dancing, live music, traditional foods and art demonstrations—including bowmaking with blood tanning by Mike Berryhill (Muscogee/Creek). Also, tour the museum and catch the special art show and sale April 6-30. The museum also hosts its annual Student Art Show March 2-31. Festival entry is free, museums admission runs #3 for adults, $1.50 for students. 918/683-1701, 888/587-4237 or www.fivetribes.org
Hit the road for the 25th anniversary of the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, April 24–26, University of New Mexico Arena, Albuquerque. This year’s event will include more than 3,000 dancers, singers and drummers from more than 700 tribes in the United States and Canada, plus a much-expanded lineup of contemporary musicians performing outdoors on Stage 49. Events kick off on the evening of April 24 with the Miss Indian World pageant at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The pageant will be hosted by Soni Moreno (of the trio Ulali) and Ky-Mani Marley (son of reggae singer Bob Marley), with music by Arigon Starr. After the competition dancing on the night of April 25, enjoy dancing and singing by New Mexico’s Pueblo tribes, followed by a “midnight special” of men’s buckskin and war bonnet dancers—and, for those still standing, a concert by Ky-Mani Marley. Yet another attraction is the Indian Traders Market, with some 1,800 vendors. 505/836-2810 or gatheringofnations.com
Plan to attend the Plateau Native Arts Celebration, April 26, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, which will feature demonstrations of beading, cornhusk weaving and saddle making and storytellers from the Yakama Nation. Also up at the time will be the exhibition People of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915. 206/543-5590 or burkemuseum.org
Spiff up for the Friends of the Autry Fashion Show and Luncheon, April 28, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA. This annual fundraiser will feature traditional and contemporary fashions, coordinated by Jeri Ah-Be-Hill (Kiowa). Guests can meet with the designers after the show. Tickets are $90. 323/667-2000, ext. 317
Put on your tux for the 16th annual First Americans in the Arts award show, May 3, at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA, which focuses on the film and television realm. Tickets are $150 and up. 805/989-4208 or firstamericans.org
BUY THIS ISSUE
Head North to Hooves on the Plains
By Daniel Gibson
Shawn
Running Crane painting entitled “One Arrow” will be used for the show’s
poster. Details: 406/452-3608 or 406/216-2676, visitgreatfalls.net, cmrauction.com
The attention of the Native art world shifts northward to the 26th annual Native American Art Show, this year titled “Hooves on the Plains,” March 13–16, in Great Falls, Montana, held during the town’s annual Western Art Week and the C.M. Russell Art Auction.
“It’s a wonderful event and has the capability of becoming one of the finest events of its kind in the nation,” says Ruthann Knudson, a former National Park Service employee and a volunteer helping to organize this year’s festival.
Some 50 Native artists—most from Montana but others coming from the Southwest and Great Plains—are expected to enter the juried exhibition and sale, which is complemented by a student art show featuring Montana Native youth, and a special show of miniature works in many media. The featured artist this year is sculptor Wayne Gunville (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) of North Dakota. He will be joined by this year’s poster artist, painter and sculptor Shawn Running Crane (Blackfeet) of Great Falls, David Dragonfly (Blackfeet) and other notable talents working in painting, prints, beadwork, glasswork, jewelry, ledger drawing, hide painting and other media.
Complementing the arts and crafts show, being held at the Civic Center, will be a handful of musicians and dancers, including the featured performer, flautist Troy De Roche (Blackfeet). Also planned is a free artists’ reception on March 15 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., with live music, refreshments and remarks. The exhibition will kick off March 13, 6-10 p.m. The awards and live entertainment is scheduled for March 15, 2-6 p.m.
The Native American Art Show is but one of seven major art events taking place in Great Falls that week; another is the renowned C.M. Russell Art Auction, held March 12–15 at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls to raise funds for the C.M. Russell Museum. Blackfeet Chief Earl Old Person and the Blackfeet Indian Dancers will perform at 1 p.m. on March 15 in the main auction room.
elsewhere
Catch the curtain rising on Native Voices at the Autry, March 1, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and March 2, 2 p.m., Autry National Center, Los Angeles, when it presents Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders: A Class Presentation, written by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Nation) and directed by José Cruz González. Autry members $12; general admission $20; children ages 12 and under $12. Also at the Autry’s Wells Fargo Theater is Pathways Plays and Music from Emerging Native American Artists, April 20, 2-4 p.m., in which Native youth combine rich tradition with contemporary stories and sounds. Reservations requested: 323/667-2000, ext. 354, or autrynationalcenter.org
Spend a day at the 8th annual ECHO Performance Arts Festival, March 8, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. The event includes Native storytellers, dancers, musicians and performing artists from Alaska, Hawaii and Massachusetts. 978/745-9500 or pem.org
Head to the Council for Indigenous Arts & Culture All-Native Wholesale Market, March 28–29, Holiday Inn at Denver International Airport, CO, which is organized for Native artist wholesalers and Native-owned businesses. 219/942-9022 or ciaccouncil.org
Don’t miss Appraisal Day, March 29, Heard Museum Phoenix and Heard Museum North Scottsdale, AZ, where leading Native art traders will examine your treasures and provide information about materials, dates, the possible artist and value. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $30 for the first item; $25 for the second item; $20 for the third and subsequent items (10 items per person maximum). 602/251-0261 or heard.org
Drop by the Albuquerque, NM Convention Center for the 2nd annual Indian Art Market, April 10–11 (open to wholesalers, retailers and artists only) and April 12 (for the general public). Hosted by the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, the public event will include artist demonstrations, seminars and book signings. There is also an awards dinner on the night of April 10 for the IACA Artist of the Year presentation. 505/265-9149 or iaca.com
Attend the first annual Global Green Indigenous Film Festival, April 15–18, Santa Fe, NM, held in conjunction with the National Tribal Environmental Council’s 15th annual conference. Some 35 short and feature-length films and videos released since 2005 on environmental topics involving Native lands and peoples from around the world will be screened. A festival pass is $125 and a daily pass $7 ($5 for students or seniors). 505/242-2175 or ntec.org
Hit the Hopi Quilting Workshop, April 16–18, Smoki Museum, Prescott, AZ. Quilters Karen Tootsie, Marlene Sekaquaptewa and Carolyn O’Bagy Davis will demonstrate their craft in conjunction with Common Threads, a Hopi quilt exhibition on display at the museum through June. 928/445-1230 or smokimuseum.org
It’s spring, so that means it’s Toonik Tyme, April 16–20, in Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut. One of the Canadian Arctic’s unique events, launched in 1965, this is a week of music, feasting, games and competitions including igloo building, dog-team races, seal-skinning contests, sea-ice golf played with fluorescent balls, snowmobile races, an arts and crafts fair (with stone carvings, and handmade fur-lined mitts, parkas and other traditional clothing), a bannock-baking contest, and other activities. 867/975-8510 or tooniktyme.com
Don’t miss the Art Under the Oaks Festival, April 19-20, Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, OK, held outdoors on lovely lawns with some 40 artists and crafters from the Five Civilized Tribes, plus dancing, live music, traditional foods and art demonstrations—including bowmaking with blood tanning by Mike Berryhill (Muscogee/Creek). Also, tour the museum and catch the special art show and sale April 6-30. The museum also hosts its annual Student Art Show March 2-31. Festival entry is free, museums admission runs #3 for adults, $1.50 for students. 918/683-1701, 888/587-4237 or www.fivetribes.org
Hit the road for the 25th anniversary of the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, April 24–26, University of New Mexico Arena, Albuquerque. This year’s event will include more than 3,000 dancers, singers and drummers from more than 700 tribes in the United States and Canada, plus a much-expanded lineup of contemporary musicians performing outdoors on Stage 49. Events kick off on the evening of April 24 with the Miss Indian World pageant at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The pageant will be hosted by Soni Moreno (of the trio Ulali) and Ky-Mani Marley (son of reggae singer Bob Marley), with music by Arigon Starr. After the competition dancing on the night of April 25, enjoy dancing and singing by New Mexico’s Pueblo tribes, followed by a “midnight special” of men’s buckskin and war bonnet dancers—and, for those still standing, a concert by Ky-Mani Marley. Yet another attraction is the Indian Traders Market, with some 1,800 vendors. 505/836-2810 or gatheringofnations.com
Plan to attend the Plateau Native Arts Celebration, April 26, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, which will feature demonstrations of beading, cornhusk weaving and saddle making and storytellers from the Yakama Nation. Also up at the time will be the exhibition People of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915. 206/543-5590 or burkemuseum.org
Spiff up for the Friends of the Autry Fashion Show and Luncheon, April 28, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA. This annual fundraiser will feature traditional and contemporary fashions, coordinated by Jeri Ah-Be-Hill (Kiowa). Guests can meet with the designers after the show. Tickets are $90. 323/667-2000, ext. 317
Put on your tux for the 16th annual First Americans in the Arts award show, May 3, at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA, which focuses on the film and television realm. Tickets are $150 and up. 805/989-4208 or firstamericans.org
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