Outsiders Are In at Kukani Gallery
ARTIST JESSE LITTLEBIRD’S 1973 Dodge Dart is not a lowrider, although people often mistake it for one. It might be a boat compared to most modern compacts, but the Dart is typically smaller than the…
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Tag: Indigenous Artists
Lindy Vision Turns Up the Joy
D OROTHY AND NATASHA CUYLEAR started their band, Lindy Vision, nearly 20 years ago in Las Cruces. Dorothy, whose nickname is Dee Dee, is on lead vocals and synthesizer; Natasha, or Na, plays guitar and…
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Lyndon Tsosie’s Design Mind
L YNDON TSOSIE PARTIED THROUGH his early adulthood and then found his calling in the pages of Dexter Cirillo’s Southwestern Indian Jewelry. The book cost $65, and Tsosie had $75 in his pocket for…
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Support Your Local Rez Band
I PAY THE COVER and slip into the back of a packed crowd inside Launchpad, a rock club in downtown Albuquerque. It’s Gathering of the Nations weekend, when the city plays host to the largest powwow in…
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Testify Rocks the Rez Metal Stage
IN THOREAU, Darius Yazzie thinks about songwriting when he’s not organizing bus drivers for his day job as transportation director at Rehoboth Christian School. Yazzie is lead guitarist and vocalist…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See an artist blend memory and tradition. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe opens Jordan Ann Craig: My Way Home , a new exhibition highlighting the work of the Northern…
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Meet Ashley Browning: The Producer
A SHLEY BROWNING (Pojoaque/Santa Clara Pueblo) got her start as a film and digital media student at the University of New Mexico, working on a documentary project for the United States Forest Service…
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Native Lab Amplifies Indigenous Voices
“I ALWAYS LIKE to say that clay is really my family’s way of storytelling,” says Charine Pilar Gonzales. The Santa Fe–based filmmaker and screenwriter, who comes from six generations of San Ildefonso…
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Chip Thomas Honors the People with Art
SOMETIME AROUND 2012, Chip Thomas, a family physician with a practice on the Navajo Nation, began seeing an uptick in certain health issues in Indigenous men in their seventies and eighties who had…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Peek into the artistic future. A hologram of an Indigenous dancer in full regalia floats in the air in Taos. The futuristic work by Dante Biss-Grayson (Osage Nation) is part of his vision to create…
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