Free Online Artist Talk with Max Early (Laguna Pueblo)

Images: Left: Ears of Corn: Listen, publication by Max Early, Traditional style ceramic pot by Max Early.

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk
Ears of Corn: Listen & New Works,
with artist Max Early 
Saturday, June 28, 2025
11:00 am (AZ time)

Please join us on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 11:00 am (AZ time) for an online artist talk, Ears of Corn: Listen & New Works, Poetry & Art of Max Early.
Meet poet and potter Max Early from the Pueblo of Laguna; he will be reading his most recent work of poetry and from his first book, Ears of Corn: Listen, and discussing his pottery.
Along with his writing, Max is an accomplished and innovative potter who sometimes combines the written word with traditional motifs in his pottery. He is close to releasing his second publication of writings. We hope you will join us to see and hear what Max has been working on.

Max Early (Pueblo of Laguna) is an Indigenous Nations Poets IN-NA-PO Inaugural Fellow. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and his BA in English from the University of New Mexico. His recent poems are published in Inkwell Journal, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, Green Linden Press, Poetry Foundation, and several others. Early’s first published book is “Ears of Corn: Listen,” and his second manuscript will proceed to publication this summer. His clans are Tsina Hanu (Turkey People) and Kwa-ya Washch’ee (child of the Bear). Also, Early is an accomplished Laguna Pueblo potter and lives in the village of Paguate, New Mexico.

 

*Not sure if you can watch live on Saturday, June 28? Register using an email and a recording of the talk will be sent to you later that evening, to watch at your leisure.

Register at: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline06282025Early

We hope you will join us!

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Matthew Bahe

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk

with Matthew Bahe 

Saturday, May 3, 2025

11:00 am (AZ time)

To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline05032025Bahe

Please take this opportunity to join us as Matthew discusses his work, journey, and inspiration behind his incredible creations.

Matthew Bahe (Diné) is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose work includes painting, ceramics, and mixed media. He is originally from Hogback, New Mexico, and is currently attending the esteemed Institute of American Indian Arts master’s program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned his bachelor’s degree with a concentration in ceramics from Jacksonville Private University in Florida. Prior to attending IAIA  he was an adjunct Fine Art Professor at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico.

His work has garnered much attention at events such as Santa Fe’s Indian Market and the Heard Museum Fair.

He spent his childhood creating art and being interested in artwork, which provided a mental diversion from living on the Diné reservation. “What began as a hobby has turned into a lifestyle, and I am grateful to continue living it today.”

See more of his work at: Facebook: Matthew Bahe or Instagram: Matthewbahe

We hope you will join us to learn about this talented young artist!

 

 

Ryan Moreno Si’al, Artist Talk & Exhibit Celebration

Ryan Moreno Si’al

Artist Talk/Exhibit Celebration

Saturday, May 24th, 11 am – 12 pm

This is a FREE Event

Ryan Moreno Si’al is an emerging visual artist from the Tohono O’odham Nation whose unique perspective evokes phantasmic echoes of time and space. Through light and careful consideration of spatial approaches, he explores the environments people both create and destroy. He thoughtfully delves into settings with a sense of emptiness and abandonment holding space for the viewer’s own reflections.

Ryan invites his viewers to engage with his work to find personal interpretations of the images that hold stories from the past and potentialities for the future. Rooted in his cultural and personal experiences, Ryan’s artistic perspective reflects his view of the world. Growing up between Chuk-Son (Tucson) and the Tohono O’odham Nation, Ryan draws from his influences from films and music to create his art, oftentimes reflecting on the relationship between humans and the natural world.

The series “Phantasm” speaks to stories of past lives left untold. The images provoke the imagination and invite one to contemplate what was, what is now, and what is possible in crafting the future together.

Currently, Ryan continues his artistic journey in Tucson, AZ. His work can be found at Ryanmoreno.art.

Ryan’s exhibit Phantasm will be on exhibit through November 30, 2025.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the work of Ryan Moreno Si’al.

His Amerind talk will be on Saturday at Amerind’s Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery.

Image: Playground, B&W Photograph, Ryan Moreno Si’al

America Meredith – Artist Talk & Exhibit Celebration

“Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia”, 2010, acrylic/canvas, America Meredith
America Meredith
Artist/Editor of First American Art Magazine
Artist Talk/Exhibit Celebration
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Artist, curator, art critic, and editor America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a celebrated contemporary artist of international stature. She is currently holding a mid-career retrospective at Amerind

Woman of Her Word: Art and Text of America Meredith. Come learn about her art and work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine.

As an artist, she explores the intersections between language and image, between Native and non-Native cultures, and between humans and other living beings.

America Meredith earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. She was the 2018 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University, won the 2018 Cherokee National Historical Society Contemporary Achievement Award, was a 2009 Artist Fellow of the National Museum of the American Indian, and won the Institute of American Indian Art’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts.

Her Amerind talk will be on Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon
at Amerind’s Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery

This is a FREE Event

(Detail of the painting) “St. Brendan: He Came, He Saw, He Went Back Home”, 2002, acrylic/canvas, America Meredith

Indigenous Art with Artist America Meredith

St. Brendan: He Came, He Saw, He Went Back Home, America Meredith, 2002, Acrylic/canvas

Indigenous Art with America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)

Artist/Editor of First American Art Magazine
Free Public Talk, Wednesday, April 2nd, 7-8 pm
at the Tucson Museum of Art, downtown Tucson
AND
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Artist, curator, art critic, and editor America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a celebrated contemporary artist of international stature. She is currently holding a mid-career retrospective at Amerind Woman of Her Word: Art and Text of America Meredith. Come learn about her art and work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine.

As an artist, she explores the intersections between language and image, between Native and non-Native cultures, and between humans and other living beings.

America Meredith earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. She was the 2018 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University, won the 2018 Cherokee National Historical Society Contemporary Achievement Award, was a 2009 Artist Fellow of the National Museum of the American Indian, and won the Institute of American Indian Art’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts.

Her Tucson talk will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 7-8 pm, at
Tucson Museum of Art
140 North Main Street
Stonewall Foundation Community Room
in the Alice Chaiten Baker Center for Art Education

Her Amerind talk will be on Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon
at Amerind’s Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery

We hope you will come and meet this celebrated contemporary artist and learn about her art and her work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine on April 2nd.

Thank you to our sponsor:

Mata Ortiz Show & Sale

Mata Ortiz Show & Sale

Friday, February 14, 2025 – Sunday, February 16, 2025

10 am – 4 pm each day

Featuring award-winning artists Laura Bugarini, Hector Gallegos Jr., and Ramiro Veloz

Come out to Amerind’s Mata Ortiz Show and Sale and meet Award-winning artists and potters Hector Gallegos Jr., Laura Bugarini, and Ramiro Veloz from Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico. Talk with this husband-and-wife team (Hector and Laura) and learn about their work and collaborations. Also, meet Ramiro Veloz and see all the incredible work that these artists have created. The artists will conduct demonstrations and pottery firings (weather permitting). You will have the opportunity watch the creation and to add a unique piece to your collection.

Also, on Friday, February 14, from 10 am-4 pm and Saturday from 10 am-3 pm, we will have a book signing with Award-Winning Author Charmayne Samuelson for her new book, Mata Ortiz Poetry of the Clay. This full-color, bilingual book features 24 contemporary potters and original poetry by Charmayne Samuelson.
She will also have her best-selling biography, SPENCER MacCALLUM Memories-Mystique-Mata Ortiz, a biography of the anthropologist who jump-started the Mata Ortiz pottery movement after meeting potter, farmer, and cowboy Juan Quezada.

This event is included with regular Museum admission.

Vintage Basketry and Weavings with Terry DeWald

Vintage Basketry and Navajo Weavings show with Terry DeWald

Saturday, January 25, 2025

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Talk at 1:00 pm

Please join us on Saturday, January 25, 2025, when we host Terry DeWald for a Vintage Basketry and Navajo Weavings Show at the Amerind Museum. The show will feature vintage Navajo weavings and baskets from California, the greater Southwest, and contemporary Tohono O’odham baskets.

DeWald has been a prominent dealer, lecturer, appraiser, and author of Native American art for more than 40 years.

Come and learn all about this beautiful art, have questions? Terry’s the one to ask! Also, remember that you do not pay sales tax on purchases from the Amerind Museum. Your purchases directly support Amerind’s work with Indigenous artists, museum collections, and public programming.

Terry will give a talk at 1:00 PM

This event is included with regular Museum admission.

Mata Ortiz Pottery Show & Sale

Mata Ortiz Pottery Show & Sale

Friday – Sunday

November 29 – December 1, 2024

10 am – 4 pm

Please join us Thanksgiving weekend for a show and Sale of Mata Ortiz Pottery featuring Master potter Oralia Lopez who will be demonstrating her work. Oralia is a second-generation potter from Mata Ortiz who is known for her flawless intricate painted geometric designs.  Oralia will also be bringing a collection of ceramics from other select potters living and working in Mata Ortiz.

Also, on Friday from 11 am-4 pm and Saturday 10 am-3 pm, we will have a book signing with Award-Winning Author Charmayne Samuelson for her new Mata Ortiz book, “POETRY OF THE CLAY, POESÍA DEL BARRO” is a bilingual, full-color photo book featuring 24 Mata Ortiz potters and enhanced by poetry by author, Charmayne Samuelson. Hard-backed case laminate, glossy paper, with full-page layouts of the potters and pottery.

She will also be signing her best-selling biography of Spencer MacCallum.

This event is included with Museum admission.

The Power of Pastel- Exhibit Celebration & Plein Air Paint Out

Saturday, October 5th

9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Plein Air Paint Out

1-2 p.m. Exhibit Celebration

Come and join us on Saturday, October 5th, from 1-2 pm as we celebrate the exhibit The Power of Pastel. This juried show of Tucson Pastel Society artists is a snapshot of the region’s many talented pastel artists, the uniqueness of each artist, and the many styles in which they paint. Come and enjoy the art and meet the artists as we celebrate this show.

This exhibit runs through November 30, 2024.

The Tucson Pastel Society will also be having a Plein Air Paint Out on the Amerind grounds from 9-12. You are invited to bring your paints or pastels and join them in this Plein Air Paint Out. All mediums are welcome. The artists also enjoy visiting with the public as they paint. Come out and paint or just observe a painting in progress before the celebration.

For more information, visit their website: Tucson Pastel Society.

This event is included with Museum admission.

* Please note: If you want to plein air paint beyond the picnic area or Yucca Park by hiking out onto the trails, you must check in with the admissions desk before going out. Thank you.