MARKET TRAIL
Santa Fe Indian Market 2014. It attracts more than 150,000 visitors every August. BY MI LL IE KNAPP
Museum in Phoenix in March, the Red Earth Festival in Oklahoma City in June, Santa Fe in August and the Cherokee Art Market in Okla- homa in October. Goshorn is one of hundreds of Indian art-
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ists on the Art Market trail, travelling from city to city to show their work at major gatherings. Participation is a lot of work for the artists.
To get her booth ready, says Goshorn, “I have to set up at 5:15 in the morning. “I have had people come up with flash-
lights to look at what I have while unpacking.” One year at Santa Fe, she was in one of the
last booths at a street’s end. “I had all kinds of people show up and they would be huffin’ and puffin’ by the time they got to my booth. They were like ‘I can’t believe how far out you are. Well, let’s see what you got.’” Goshorn plans to cut back to two or three
markets per year. When her work sells out at markets and shows, she returns to Tulsa, Okla., her home for more than 30 years, to replenish
he pace is beginning to wear on Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band of Cherokee). Over the last four years, she has shown her unique basketry at markets at the Heard
her inventory. It takes six months to create the fine art form of Cherokee basketry she inter- weaves with photographic applications. But she will not part with Sante Fe.
“I don’t want to give up that spot because they are highly coveted. That’s the big one – that’s the market people from all over the world come to,” she says. With hundreds of booths for a thousand or so artists, the week leading up to Santa Fe, she says, is “like a homecoming for Indians.” The Santa Fe Art Market, one of the oldest
and most famous, attracts about 1,100 Indig- enous artists from more than 100 tribes in the U.S. and Canada. The American Indian Arts Marketplace at the Autry National Center of the American West in California will draw 200 artists from 40 tribes. The Northern Plains In- dian Art Market in Sioux Falls, S.D., is slightly more particular about its entrants. An artist must be an enrolled member of the tribes the market recognizes as indigenous to the U.S. and Canada Northern Plains. If the Santa Fe Indian Market is one of the oldest, looking forward to its hundredth birthday in 2022, one of the youngest is the Indigenous Fine Arts Market, inaugurated in 2014 in Santa Fe. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 33
PHOTO BY DANIEL NADELBACH
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