MUSEUM TEMPORARILY CLOSED – Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock

Palm Springs Art Museum 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA, United States

Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock is the first survey and major solo exhibition of contemporary Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke. Clarke is an artist, cowboy, university professor, tribal leader, and Indian (his preferred identity). Living with his family on their ancestral land near Anza, California, Clarke raises cattle as his father, grandfather, and other Cahuilla Indians have…

MUSEUM TEMPORARILY CLOSED – Calling Young Coyotes

Maidu Museum & Historic Site 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive, Roseville, CA, United States

The exhibit is scheduled from February 15, 2020 until April 27, 2020, with an opening reception on February 15, 2020. The event is sponsored by The Maidu Museum, United Auburn Indian Community, MACT Health Board, Chapa De Indian Health and Buena Vista Rancheria.

Creative Sovereignty – Works by Gerald Clarke

Crafton Hills College Art Gallery 17111 Sand Canyon Road, Yucaipa, CA, United States

Combining various media in his sculptures, paintings, and installations, Gerald Clarke derives artistic inspiration from his homeland’s cultural heritage and its desert and mountain environment, expressing traditional ideas in surprising and contemporary forms. His diverse artistic output resonates with histories of assemblage, pop, conceptual, and politically engaged art produced by both Native and non-native artists.

Sovereignty Expanded: Indigenous Geographies of the Contemporary American West

Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

In conjunction with Hans Baumann’s exhibition Hans Baumannn: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea), Pitzer College Art Galleries is hosting a symposium “Sovereignty Expanded: Indigenous Geographies of the Contemporary American West,” on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, February 29 in Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College. In 2017, Hans Baumann initiated a long-term artistic collaboration with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla…

When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California

About the Exhibition (*from The Autry website) Beginning with the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, California  became a beacon of creative freedom, individual expression, and  social activism for Native peoples across the country. The region quickly transformed into a place where Native artists engaged with cultural diversity, historical traditions, and contemporary art to critique its colonial past. As…

BDT: A Retrospective

Celebrating an art career of over five decades, this exhibition brings work together from 1969 to the present by Karuk artist Brian Tripp. Loaned artwork is from the local Humboldt community who celebrated and supported Tripp through his career, ranging from printmaking, painting, drawing, poetry and sculpture. The range of work highlights Karuk worldview and culture…

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo brings together more than seventy-five works to tell the story of Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) and his extraordinary career and encounters with Native peoples, with a focus on his rediscovered masterwork Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California (1878). The painting now returns to California for the first time…

CANCELED – After The Burn Art Exhibit & Closing Reception

art+movement in collaboration with the FIEA Native American Center for Arts & Culture and the Center Street Gallery at 3182 Center St. Placerville, CA presents the "After the Burn" exhibit.  This inaugural exhibit features the works of eleven local Native American and indigenous artists from Northern California and Nevada. Artists included are; Devancy Rain Royalty…

Great Basin Native Artists Exhibit: Part II

CONNECTION I & II  Indigenous Art of the Great Basin Exhibition on display at the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center, Bishop, California   February 25, 2022 – September 2022 Featured artists included in the exhibition are: Ben Aleck, Loretta Burden, Karma Henry, Micqaela Jones, Jack Malotte, Melissa Melero-Moose, Lyn Risling and Topah Spoonhunter.  Over 50 pieces…

Our Existence is Our Resistance

"Our Existence is Our Resistance is a collection of paintings by Dr. Eric Tippeconnic, an enrolled member of the Comanche nation and Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies here at California State University San Marcos (housed on the traditional homelands of the Luiseño/Payómkawichum peoples). The exhibition tells the story of resiliency and pride in multi-layered…

“Voices from the Rez” Opening Reception

The La Jolla Historical Society is honored to present an exhibit of contemporary art created by Native Americans from the reservations of Southern California where San Diego County is home to eighteen reservations - more than any other county in the United States. Southern California Natives live both on and off the Rez, upholding historic…

Voices from the Rez

The La Jolla Historical Society is honored to present an exhibit of contemporary art created by Native Americans from the reservations of Southern California where San Diego County is home to eighteen reservations - more than any other county in the United States. Southern California Natives live both on and off the Rez, upholding historic…

Exploring Native American Art

Exploring Native American Art with artist Gerald Clarke Hosted by the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center 127 N. San Gorgonio Ave., Banning CA Form more information, please email info@dorothyramon.org or call (951) 849-7736

Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat.

This exhibition analyzes representations of the Americas, questioning the mythologies and utopian visions that proliferated after the arrival of Europeans to the continent. Featuring artistic interventions by Denilson Baniwa, an Indigenous contemporary artist from the Amazon region of Brazil, and the voices of local community groups in Los Angeles, Reinventing the Américas counters the views of European…

Ken Lubas Gallery Talk

Located at 3290 Lang Ranch Parkway, Thousand Oak, CA For more information, please visit www.chumashmuseum.org or call (805) 492-8076

Crossing Waters: Contemporary Tongva Artists Carrying Pimugna

In this inaugural partnership between the Catalina Museum for Art & History and the Tongva Community, Crossing Waters highlights the works of three contemporary Tongva artists, Weshoyot Alvitre, Mercedes Dorame, and River Garza. Pimugna, often shortened to Pimu, is the Tongva name for the island now commonly known as Catalina Island. It was once an integral part…

We Are Still Here: Pomo Artists and Our Cultural Landscape

Featured artists include Silver Galleto (Southern Pomo), Bonnie Lockhart (Northern Pomo, Kai Poma), Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo), Clint McKay (Dry Creek Pomo, Wappo and Wintun), Robin Meely (Southern Pomo), Kathleen Smith (Bodega Miwuk, Dry Creek Pomo) and Eric Wilder (Southwest Pomo).  The artists come from different Pomo regions and their art honors the cultural landscape…

Making Connections: Stories from the Land (Permanent Exhibition)

Celebrate the opening of the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition, “Making Connections: Stories from the Land,” with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, cultural performances, and exhibition tours. Over two years in the making, the exhibition delivers an immersive experience through expansive video walls, interactive touch screens and listening stations, and intriguing artifacts to tell the story of the people…

Native Motion

Join CICSC opening day April 1st from 2pm-4pm at the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery located at California State University Fullerton for a special art show curated by Dr. Eric Tippeconnic called “Native Motion,” featuring the art of Karin Walkingstick, Dr. Rodney Haring, Monica Zavala, and Dr. Eric Tippeconnic. Native Motion will be available for viewing until…

Welcoming Home the Birds

Located at Idyllwild Arts Academy 52500 Temecula Rd #38, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549

Weaving Circle & Collection Viewing

Benton Museum of Art Pomona College 120 West Bonita Avenue, Claremont, CA, United States

Led by Rose Ann Hamilton (Cahuilla), Lorene Sisquoc (Cahuilla/Apache), and Cindi Alvitre (Gabrieleno-Tongva). Guests will be encouraged to view selections of Cahuilla baskets housed at Pomona College. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

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