EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUE


SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK CITY


NYC EXHIBITIONS


CIRCLE OF DANCE ONGOING


INFINITY OF NATIONS: ART AND HISTORY IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ONGOING


ROBERT DAVIDSON: ABSTRACT IMPULSE THROUGH SEPT. 14, 2014


FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HORACE POOLAW THROUGH FEB. 15, 2015


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY


NOV. 13, 2014 – JAN. 10, 2016 *THE GLITTERING WORLD GALLERY STORE, LOCATED WITHIN THE EXHIBITION, WILL COMPLEMENT THE SHOW AND OFFER FINE JEWELRY


FOR SALE. 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA


WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK FEATURING THE MUSEUM AWARDS AND PREVIEW OF GLITTERING WORLD FOR TICKETS AND DETAILS, CONTACT (212) 514-3750 OR NYRSVP@SI.EDU


90 AMERICAN INDIAN SUMMER/FALL 2014 EXHIBITIONS


GLITTERING WORLD: NAVAJO JEWELRY OF THE YAZZIE FAMILY Nov. 13, 2014 – Jan. 10, 2016 East Gallery Glittering World presents the story of Navajo jewelry through the lens of the gifted Yazzie family of Gallup, N.M. – one of the most celebrated jewelry-making families of our time. The silver, gold and stone inlay work of Lee Yazzie and his younger brother Raymond has won every major award in the field. Their sister Mary Marie makes outstanding jewelry that combines fine bead and stonework; silver beads are handmade by other sisters. Featuring almost 300 examples of contem- porary jewelry made by several members of the Yazzie family, Glittering World shows how the family’s art flows from their Southwest environs and strong connection to their Navajo culture. With historic pieces from the Museum’s collections, the exhibi- tion places Navajo jewelry-making within its historical context of art and commerce, illustrates its development as a form of cul- tural expression and explores the meanings behind its symbolism.


FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HORACE POOLAW Through Feb. 15, 2015 West Gallery Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw (1906–84) was born during a time of great change for his people – one year before Oklahoma statehood and six years after the U.S. government approved an allotment policy that ended the reservation period. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, he began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next 50 years. Poolaw photographed his friends and family and events important to them – weddings, funerals, parades, fishing, driving cars, going


on dates, going to war, playing baseball. When he sold his photos at fairs and com- munity events, he often stamped the reverse: “A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.” Not simply by “an Indian,” but by a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal com- munity, Poolaw’s work celebrates his subjects’ place in American life and preserves an insider’s perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with – the Native America of the Southern Plains during the mid-20th


century.


ROBERT DAVIDSON: ABSTRACT IMPULSE Through Sept. 14, 2014 East Gallery This is the first major U.S. exhibition of works by Haida artist Robert Davidson, a pivotal figure in the Northwest Coast Native art renaissance since 1969, when he erected the first totem pole in his ancestral Massett village since the 1880s. For more than 40 years, Davidson has mastered Haida art traditions by studying the great works of his great-grandfather Charles Edenshaw and others. More recently, Davidson has interjected his own interpretation of the old forms with forays into abstraction, explored in boldly minimalistic easel paintings, graphic works, and sculpture, where images are pared to essential lines, elemental shapes, and strong colors. Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse features 45 paintings, sculptures, and prints created since 2005, as well as key images from earlier in the artist’s career that show Davidson’s evolution toward an elemental language of form. The exhibition is organized by the Seattle Art Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian.


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