Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Ishkoten Dougi

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Ishkoten Dougi (Jicarilla Apache/Diné)

Saturday, August 2, 2025

11:00 am (AZ time)

To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Online08022025Dougi

Please take this opportunity to join us on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 11:00 am (AZ time) for an online artist talk with contemporary artist Ishkoten Dougi (Jicarilla Apache/Diné).
as he discusses his art, creative process, experience and more.

Ishkoten Dougi is a contemporary artist working in painting, stone sculpture, and mixed media. He grew up in Dulce, New Mexico, and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He also attended the Al Collins Graphic Design School in Tempe, AZ.

Ishkoten has developed a personalized style combining abstract imagery, creating narratives that stem from both modern and historical reflections on his roots and history. It’s celebrations as well as reminders of historical traumas that Native American communities have endured. Engaging the viewer with a visual dialogue in aims of connection and understanding.

“Whether it’s stone, mixed media or digital my creations are narratives of all that stems from my roots and history-my celebrations as well as the reminders of individuals massacred by manifest destiny or our bureaucratic standing at the time of culture clashing pitted in the timelines of countless land grabs which transformed what was dreamed for us in the beginning.”

Ishkoten is currently a full-time artist residing in Albuquerque, NM. He is widely collected and has been in numerous museum and gallery shows throughout the US.

We hope you will join us to learn about this colorful and fascinating artist!

Unsure if you will be able to watch live? Register using an email and we will send a recording of the talk later that evening.

 

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:

Tucson Symphony event with Raven Chacon

Join us for an Amerind in Tucson event with the Tucson Symphony

Friday, February 21, 2025, 7:30 pm

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 2:00 pm with preconcert talk at 1:00pm

at Linda Ronstadt Music Hall: 260 S. Church Ave. Tucson, AZ. (NW corner of city block, next to Convention Center parking garage)

Tickets:  $14-$95 available through the Tucson Symphony 

Dvořák and the American Experience

with Ravon Chacon: Inscription

a TSO Co- Commission

Paul Huang, who left TSO audiences spellbound in 2022, returns to perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, originally written for the composer’s friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. The concerto is accompanied by two of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. Written originally for piano duo while he was still relatively unknown, it was these dances that helped Dvořák achieve notoriety. Dvořák came to the U.S. later in life and wrote the New World Symphony, inspired by African-American spirituals. The concert’s second half features works by American composers with very different backgrounds: a TSO co-commissioned work by Arizona-born Raven Chacon, a 2023 MacArthur Genius Grant awardee, and Still’s Symphony No. 1, known as the “Afro-American.” Chacon, a member of the Navajo Nation, draws on relationships between the western and indigenous communities while Still drew from popular African-American music.

Raven Chacon has mentored over 300 high school Native Composers as part of the annual Grand Canyon Music Festival. He also won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Voiceless Mass”.

William Grant Still was the first African American to have his symphony performed by a major orchestra. His daughter, Judith, lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Featured Performers
Program
  • Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 2
  • Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8
  • Dvořák: Violin Concerto
  • Raven Chacon: Inscription TSO Co-Commission
  • William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”

Please note:

  • This concert is available as part of a Classic Series or Create Your Own Subscription.
  • Linda Ronstadt Music Hall has a clear bag policy. Read more about this venue
  • The Friday concert only will be presented in the Classics With a Twist format: there will be on-stage introductions to the music and your chance to ask questions of the artists in a post-concert Q&A.
  • Friday’s concert is expected to last approximately 2 hours, including intermission.
  • The Sunday concert only will be preceded by Concert Comments,a pre-concert talk, beginning at 1:00 p.m.

This concert and the Raven Chacon project is underwritten by Shirley Chann with additional support from Linda Staubitz and the Amerind Foundation.

Poetry Reading with Kimberly Blaeser

Join the Amerind in Tucson

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 7:00 pm

Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Nation)

at the University of Arizona Poetry Center

1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ 85719

Cost: Free

Amerind is proud to be one of the sponsors of this event.

The Tom Sanders Memorial Reading is an annual presentation in the Poetry Center’s Reading and Lecture series. Established by the generosity of Tom’s friends in 2017, this event features writers who were former students at the University of Arizona, writers who were formerly or currently members of the University of Arizona faculty, writers with strong ties to Southern Arizona, or University of Arizona Press authors. This year, The Poetry Center is proud to present Kimberly Blaeser.

Kimberly Blaeser, poet, photographer, and scholar, is past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets. She is the author of six poetry collections including Ancient Light, Copper Yearning, and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. Her photographs and picto-poems have appeared in exhibits such as “Visualizing Sovereignty,” and “No More Stolen Sisters.”

An enrolled member of White Earth Nation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist whose accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Blaeser is an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts and Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

In addition to the in-person reading, most Reading & Lecture Series events are streamed live on the poetry center’s website.

Her title, Ancient Light, Poems, published by Uof A Press, is now available at the Amerind Museum Store for $18. Call 520-586-3666 for a copy.

 

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.

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.