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America Meredith
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Western hemispheric generalist. ᏣᎳᎩ writer, artist, and editor based in Norman, Oklahoma. Since my feed isn't too active, I'm just using Bluesy to post articles I want to read.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 22h
This is very good
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · 2d
Now hiring a Magazine Operations Manager
Hybrid, based in Norman, Oklahoma
Approximately 20 hours a week (room to expand)
Part-time permanent employee

firstamerican.art/careers/

#NormanOK #FAAM #FirstAmerican #NativeSky #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #NativeAmerican
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · 7d
“CN citizen America Meredith reaches new heights for Cherokee artists”

Thank you, Cherokee Phoenix!

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#NativeSky #Cherokee #NativeAmerican #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #NDNart
CN citizen America Meredith reaches new heights for Cherokee artists
Cherokee Nation citizen America Meredith recently won the Rabkin award for her work with the First American Art magazine.
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · 11d
Thank you for continuing to fight for American people!
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · 21d
So sorry for your loss. 🪷
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · 29d
Join us Tuesday, September 30 to talk about Native basketry at the Charles Russell Center in Norman, OK!
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18
The Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into ABC, Sinclair, and the FCC.

We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Sep 19
Republicans keep proving that free speech isn’t free for everyone. That’s why I introduced the Free Speech Act of 2025 — to stop the FCC from being used as a political weapon and to protect the First Amendment.
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · Sep 19
Those are astonishingly well rendered. Amazing craftsmanship on those masks.
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Sep 18
Today is National Pawpaw Day!

Double rivercane basket by Vivian Cottrell, Cherokee National Treasure

#pawpaw #NativeSky #Indigenousart #ndnart #NativeArt #Cherokee #ᏣᎳᎩ
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · Sep 15
Many American politicians are learning from Vienna, which is combatting housing scarcity+climate change-- all at the same time.

This group from Portland is another example.

To go on a podcast jaunt and read more about Vienna's green social housing, check out our feature from June on @npr.org 📻🎧🌍
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Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 14
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Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday, alleging the technology giant's AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites.
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · Sep 8
Mark your calendars: Sept. 21 in OKC!
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OKC Indian Art Club presents
Dennis Peterson speaking about Spiro Mounds art

Sunday, Sept 21, 2pm
Belle Isle Library, Room B
Oklahoma City, OK

Info (405) 830-1860

Bring guests and snacks! 😊
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#NativeSky #Oklahoma #OKC #Spiro #OklahomaSky #Archaeology #NativeArt #NDNArt
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Sep 8
Anadarko, OK – The Southern Plains Indian Museum reopens Monday, September 8, 2025, with its new fall exhibition, "Newly Acquired Contemporary Works from the Southern Plains Indian Museum Collection"

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#NativeSky #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #IACB #NativeAmerican #NDN
Southern Plains Indian Museum Reopens with New 2025 Fall Exhibition - First American Art Magazine
Anadarko, OK. – The Southern Plains Indian Museum reopens Monday, September 8, 2025, with a fall exhibition of newly acquired artworks.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Sep 4
FAAM Publishing Editor America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) wins the prestigious Rabkin Award for excellence in art journalism

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#NativeSky #ArtSky #ArtWriting #ArtJournalism #FAAM #IndigenousArt #NativeArt
FAAM Editor America Meredith Wins Prestigious Rabkin Award - First American Art Magazine
PORTLAND, ME – FAAM publishing editor, America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), won a 2025 Rabkin Prize for excellence in art journalism.
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Sep 1
Check out the Native Art events happening this September:
firstamerican.art/calendar

Pictured: Patrick DesJarlait (Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 1921-1972), “Maple Sugar Time,” 1946, watercolor on paper. Collection of the Philbrook Museum. Part of the Contemporary Anishinaabe Art exhibition.
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Timothy Cornell @timothycornell.bsky.social · Sep 1
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · Aug 29
Oklahoma State Board of Education calls its own meeting after Walters ‘refused to schedule’

Walters had canceled a meeting with the board this week

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#Oklahoma #OklahomaSky
Oklahoma State Board of Education calls its own meeting after Walters ‘refused to schedule’ • Oklahoma Voice
Four members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education invoked a state law that allows a majority of the board to schedule a meeting.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 23
This feels like a spot of good news

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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · Aug 22
Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact

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Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact
The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Aug 15
Congratulations to all the 2025 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market winners!

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#indigenousart #nativeart #santafeindianmarket #ndnart
#NativeSky #ArtSky
Santa Fe Indian Market 2025 Winners - First American Art Magazine
Best of Show for the 103rd annual Santa Fe Indian Market went to Regina Free (Chickasaw), a relative newcomer to this market. She lives near the tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma and used many upcycling c...
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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · Aug 11
Santa Fe, NM – This Thursday, Aug. 14, join us for a roundtable discussion, "Judging Native Art: Challenges and Rewards" at the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 1590-B Pacheco Street

10–11 am, free and open to the public!

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#NativeSky #ArtSky #Indigisky🔥 #NativeArt #NDN
Judging Native Art: Challenges and Rewards - First American Art Magazine
Santa Fe, NM – How can you better How can you better evaluate the art you encounter during Native Art Week?Join us in discussion at the Coe!
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Aug 8
Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

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Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
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America Meredith @ahalenia.bsky.social · Aug 2
This drawing of Baldwin’s face is so expressive and well-rendered!
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