Native American artists featured here are from the various Nations (tribes) throughout the country. Their artwork often reflects the struggles of the Native American community from a contemporary and personal perspective. Many have achieved national recognition for their artwork that transcends cultural boundaries and deals with issues that are faced by all Americans today. Often this is blended with an historical perspective that remains strong in a community where spiritual communing with the ancestors and mother earth is still prized and protected by the Elders through the oral tradition. This becomes the foundation on which the younger generations move us forward in a vital and thriving cultural evolution.

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New York Mix: Art of the Five "Civilized" Boroughs
January 21 - March 5, 2005

Featured Artists and Tribal Affiliation:

Nadema Agard (Lakota/Cherokee/Powhattan) … Alex Andersen (Kiowa) … Elizabeth Beckman (Annishnabe) ...Cristine Begay (Navajo) … Pena Bonita (Apache) … Raquel Chapa (Lipan Apache/Yaqui/Cherokee) … Lorenzo Clayton (Navajo) … Jesse Cooday (Tlingit) ... Yakita Fields (Cherokee/Osage/Creek) … Robert Fisher (Northern Cheyenne) … Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw) … Carrese Gullo (Cherokee) … Jason Gullo (Cherokee) … Will Guy (Cherokee) … Anthony Hunter (Shinnecock) … Joyce Keeler (Navajo) … Athena LaTocha (Lakota/Ojibway) … Dyani Lee (Narragansett / Niantic) … Hebe Lee (Narraganett / Niantic) ... Aaron Lewis (Umatilla/Cayuse/Nez Perce) … Jason Lujan (Chiricahua Apache) … Julian Mahikan (Attikamek) … David Martine (Shinnecock/Montauk/Chiricahua Apache) … Alec Montroy (Munsee-Delaware) … Soni Caballero Moreno (Apache/Yaqui/Mayan) ... Deborah Mullins (Cherokee) … Richard K. Nelson (Navajo) … Tara O’Keefe (Santo Domingo) … Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) … Lloyd Oxendine (Lumbee) ... Ron Peters (Cree) … Chuck Quinn (Shinnecock) … Victoria Red Sky (Anishinabe) ... Jessica Seneca (Seneca) … Sarah Sense (Chitimacha/Choctaw) … Barbara James Snyder (Paiute) … Patrick Tafoya (Dine) … Amy Tall Chief (Osage) … Candece Tarpley (Eastern Cherokee) … Taylor (Choctaw) … Diana Thompson (Seminole) … Ken Woodard (Cherokee/Powhattan) … Annabel Wong (Salt River Pima)...

Seeing the Forest
March 18 - April 30, 2005

Featured Artist: William J. Grant ( Chippewa)

Curator: Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo )

Long Road Home
May 13 - June 25, 2005

Featured Artist: Renzo Spirit Buffalo ( Lakota), Frank Mitchell (Blackfoot/Cherokee)

Guest Curators: Sam Watson and Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

Secret Treaties
January 9 - February 21, 2004

Featured Artists: Jesse Cooday (Tlingit), Jason Lujan (Apache)

Curator: Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

Beyond: Contemporary Native American Basketry
March 12 - April 24, 2004

Featured Artists:

Ruby Chimerica (Hopi), Della Cruz (Tohono O'odham), Frederick Cruz (Tohono O'odham), Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy), Pat Courtney Gold (Wasco/Tlingit), Theresa S. Hoffman (Penobscot), Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O'odham), Sadie Marks (Hopi), Julia Parker (Coast Miwok/ Pomo), Lucy Parker (Coast Miwok/ Pomo), Gloria Raymond (Tohono O'odham), Lisa Telford (Haida), Rhonda Wilson (Tohono O'odham)

Co -Curators: Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O'odham) and Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

E-Motion
May 14 - July 3, 2004

Featured Artist: John Hitchcock (Comanche)

Curator: Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

Messenger: J. Houston-Emerson
July 30- September 10, 2004

Featured Artist: J. Houston-Emerson (Cherokee)

Curator: Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

(back) Tracks: Colette Jacques
October 8 - November 24, 2004

Featured Artist: Colette Jacques (Cree/Metis)

Curator: Kathleen Ash-Milby ( Navajo)

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