[drafthearse]

Shawl Dancers. Ruthe Blalock Jones / Chulundit. 2004. acrylic on canvas

[olowan-waphiya]

Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree Nation), The Great Mystery, 2022. Acrylic paint on canvas, 117 1/2 × 91 1/2 in. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund; 2023.18.1. © and image courtesy of Kent Monkman.

Kent Monkman's Miss Chief | Denver Art Museum

Miss Chief is a fierce provocateur who moves through time and space in Monkman’s work to disrupt false and incomplete narratives.

From the DAM page: Miss Chief is a fierce provocateur who moves through time and space in Monkman’s work to disrupt false and incomplete narratives. She embodies Indigenous resilience and presents an empowering point of view of Indigenous gender and sexuality. Look for Miss Chief throughout the exhibition and learn more about her in the following, which is excerpted from the catalog that accompanies the exhibition:

To tell the histories and stories of the European colonization of Indigenous bodies, territories, knowledges, and minds in Canada and the United States, Monkman needed a narrator who could appear at any point in time and space to infuse Indigenous perspectives into art history and to disrupt false and incomplete narratives recorded and perpetuated by non-Indigenous artists.

Seeing how non-Native artists from the 1800s working in the American West, such as George Catlin and Paul Kane, would paint themselves into their own work—an act Monkman found egotistical—and wanting to engage these histories with camp, humor, and a healthy dose of mischief, a narrator was born: Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.

With a shrug of her shoulders and a wry smile, Miss Chief [in the painting The Great Mystery] shows humor is the best medicine for healing. After exploring the collection of Dartmouth College, Monkman found inspiration from an unlikely pair: Lilac and Orange over Ivory by Mark Rothko and Cyrus Dallin’s bronze sculpture Appeal to the Great Spirit. Monkman replaced the pensive warrior stereotype with a sardonic Miss Chief and turned Rothko’s abstraction into her landscape setting. Extending the spiritual contemplation of great mysteries that both of these works engage, Monkman attempts to distill the linearity and tropes of Indigenous-settler histories and asks how art might perpetuate and subvert them.

[feminineforms]

"Tattooed Woman" (1989) by Roxanne Swentzell, Kha'p'o Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo)

Tattooed Woman follows in the tradition of Roxanne Swentzell’s figurative sculptures, perhaps most identifiable by their exaggerated extremities—with noticeably larger hands and feet—which she sees as expressive parts of the body. The woman’s posture is open while her eyes remain closed, suggesting the concentrated receiving and retention of knowledge. The tattoos along her body serve as visible markers of accumulated understanding and experiences. While Swentzell’s figures appear sturdy and solid, they are in fact hollow, opening the possibility for this piece to be considered a vessel, something that holds memory. "I think of this woman as existing in a spiritual reality signified by her tattoos in which her senses have been heightened. She is aware of more than what can be seen or felt. Her presence is a source of this "other" sense that we don’t always allow ourselves to acknowledge. May she help to remember" -- Roxanne Swentzell

[indigokra]

heal the land 🌎

[tsaktahis]

ᏓᎦᏏ - Daksi (DAHK-see) - Terrapin 🐢

Cherokee double wall basket - gauge 2 and 0 commercial round reed.

First try making a turtle basket, pretty happy with the results but I think I'm going to try remaking the lid tonight so it fits better. I have seen some people make more flipper like feet and then I have seen clawed feet once in a while, I like how the claws look more so that is what I went with.

[baebeylik]

Spouted Vessel with Painted Motifs. Quapaw culture. Arkansas, 1500-1700 CE.

Saint Louis Art Museum.

[hingubingu]

ITS DONE, first art peice I've actually finished in a while, I'm proud of it!

[tilbageidanmark]

Inuit button with seal image, 1880s-90s, Yukon.

[formlines]

Lip gye'en (To Be Free)

Phil Gray

from the website: This print depicts the Palestinian Sunbird, which is a symbol of freedom, resilience, and hope.

[feminineforms]

"Fringe" (2007) by Rebecca Belmore, Anishinaabe / Lac Seul First Nation / Canadian

Rebecca Belmore’s reclamatory riff on a 19th-century odalisque allows her historically and ever-assaulted Native woman to rise up from her couch, barely wrapped in the bloody, yet healing, fringe of her shawl. Some people look at this reclining figure and see a cadaver, but I look at it and I don’t see that. I see it as a wound that is on the mend. It wasn’t self-inflicted, but, nevertheless, it is bearable. She can sustain it. So, it is a very simple scenario. She will get up and go on, but she will carry that mark with her. —Rebecca Belmore

[final-queer]

brick stitch Dragon Ball Z keychains 🐉⚡

[jareckiworld]

Raymond Naha (1933-1975) — Night Mountain Chant   (gouache on paperboard, ca. 1968)

[weepingwidar]

Raymond Naha (Native American, Hopi-Tewa, Pueblo, 1933-1974)

[in1uria]

Self punishing girl

[baebeylik]

Photograph, Amber Morningstar. Photo by Cara Romero. Choctaw/Chahta, American, 2019 CE.

Choctaw Cultural Center, Oklahoma.

[rachaelanra]

Dust devils roaming around. Looking both elegant but strong.

Here are the two new artworks in the Whirlwind collection. I decided to do two versions because while I was writing the poem that is a part of the collection, I realized that I wanted to draw how I believe a dust devil would be.

Collection launching tomorrow!

If you like this sticker, let me know if there's anything else you would like me to put it on, because right now, it’s only available as a sticker, but I’m looking forward to putting it on other products.

[estera-shirin]

Nose ornament—Salinar (modern Peru), 100 BCE to 200 CE

This beautiful nose ornament was made by Salinar artists about 2000 years ago. It would have hung from the septum and depicts four spiders, which were likely associated with good news, coming rain, and hunting acumen.

[newguineatribalart]

Gope board from Goabari Island Papua New Guinea