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FAAM No. 49, our Winter 2026 issue is out and packed with features, artist profiles, exhibition reviews and more: firstamerican.art/current-issue/
Check out the Native Art events happening in Feb 2026! firstamerican.art/calendar

Pictured: Cara Romero (Chemeuhuevi), “Devil’s Claw No. 1,” 2025, archival pigment print.©Cara Romero. Image courtesy of the artist. Part of “Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)” at the Phoenix Art Museum.
February 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Victor, NY – Call for Haudenosaunee artists!
Theme: "What is a Haudenosaunee Peace?"

Ganondagan's 8th Annual juried Hodinöhsö:ni’ Art Show to be exhibited at the Seneca Art & Culture Center, Apr 8–11

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January 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"Las Horas que Caminé/The Hours I Walked" by Zapotec artist Porfirio Gutierrez was created for the exhibition Sangre de Nopal (7/24 – 1/25) at the Fowler Museum. As Forum magazine writes it's an "embodied counter-narrative to anti-migrant brutality."

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Las Horas que Camine
YouTube video by Porfirio Gutierrez
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January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Maya shell gorget featuring a water bird! Maya artist once known, Bird Ornament, 600–800 CE, shell, 2½ × 2½ inches, from Mexico or Guatemala, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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January 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Miami, OK – "neehaapiikasiciki: The Healing Threads of Myaamia Ribbonwork" at the Myaamia Heritage Museum & Archive, 28 N. Main St. Open January 22 through July 3, 2026

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Myaamia Heritage Museum & Archive (MHMA) - Miamination.com
Address: 28 N Main St, Miami, OK 74354 Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 5 PM Meghan Dorey, Museum Manager Email: [email protected] Phone: (918) 541-1300   Morgan Lippert, Curator of Exhibitions ...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The cover image shows Kim Kleist-Eriksen/Eriagisaq, a Kalaaleq artist in Nuuk, Greenland, showing a tupilak that he was recently commissioned to create.

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In Greenland, Trump's approach turns the population against the US
Shocked by the US president's threats to seize the Inuit island, residents of Greenland are voicing their anger in Nuuk, the capital, on Saturday. In just a few weeks, the appeal once held by the Amer...
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January 21, 2026 at 8:32 PM
FAAM No. 49, our Winter 2026 issue is out and packed with features, artist profiles, exhibition reviews and more: firstamerican.art/current-issue/
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Anthony "Tony" Gauthier (Menominee/Ho-Chunk, 1942–2020), "Bicentennial Painting," 1976, featuring portraits of Nez Perce Chief Joseph and Martin Luther King Jr.

#MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKDay2026 #MLKDay #IndigenousArt #NativeSky
January 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
“Art can take many forms. And I’m a person who lives in this contemporary world, so I’m going to respond to the things that make my world.”
— Excerpt from "Cherokee Nation Sculptor & Installation Artist Brenda Mallory" by Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent) in FAAM No. 48, Fall 2025
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The Village, OK – The Oklahoma City Indian Art Club is hosting a talk by Amber DuBoise-Shepherd (Diné/Sac & Fox/Potawatomi) about "Curating Native Art"

Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:00pm
Village Library, Room A
10307 N. Pennsylvania Ave.

Free! #NativeSky #Oklahoma #OKC #OklahomaArt #NDNArt #NativeAmerican
January 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Read about the work, inspiration and art heroes of 2024 Sobey Art Award winner Nico Williams (Aamjiwnaang Ojibway) in our Fall 2025 issue.

📷: Nico Williams (Aamjiwnaang Ojibway), "Reconnecting," 2024, 11° Japanese glass cylinder beads, 10° Czech glass beads, blue stabilizing fluid, ... (1/2)
January 17, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Read about the life and work of Oglala Lakota printmaker, sculptor, and mixed-media artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. in our Fall 2025 issue.

📷: Marty Two Bulls Jr (Oglala Lakota), "Geechee Mon," 2019, glazed ceramic sculptures, installation: 15 × 40 × 8 in.

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January 15, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Meet contemporary bandolier bag makers like Shannon Gustafson (Whitesand Ojibwa) in "Carrying Culture: Bandolier Bags Today," an article in our Fall 2025 issue.
January 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
1/5 "Minga Muralista del Pueblo Nasa represents a paradigmatic example of how Indigenous communities can reclaim narrative control over their territories through artistic expression. By transforming walls marked by violence into canvases of cultural affirmation, the Nasa people ...
January 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New on our blog, Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone, the 1st major retrospective devoted to the work of Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of Afro-Caribbean and Anishinaabe descent whose career unfolded across the US and Europe in the 19th century, will open at the Peabody Essex.
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Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone | Peabody Essex Museum Exhibition
Salem, MA – "Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone", a major retrospective of the Afro-Caribbean and Mississauga sculptor, opens at the Peabody Essex Museum on February 14, 2026.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Explore the monumental carvings of culture that pre-dates the Maya and Aztecs in "Olmec Colossal Heads: The Surviving Faces of Mesoamerica’s First Civilization" available in FAAM's Fall 2025 issue.
January 9, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Read about the work of Cherokee Nation sculptor and installation artist Brenda Mallory in our Fall 2025 issue.

Pictured: Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation), "To Touch a Wide Span (ᎠᏟᎢᎵᏙᎲ ᎠᏍᏒᏂᏍᏗᎢ)," 2025, encaustic, cloth, felt, oil paint, hog rings, welded steel. Photo: Mario Gallucci.
January 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Read more where this excerpt came from in "Navajo Filmmaker, Photographer & Digital Artist Keanu Jones" by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo) in FAAM No. 48, Fall 2025
January 2, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Happy New Year! Check out FAAM's calendar for Native Art Events happening in January 2026
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Pictured: Michael Barber (Mohawk), "Grandmother (detail)," mixed media on plywood, 2025 from the "Michael Barber: The Messengers" exhibition at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery.
January 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Chicago, IL —"Takapsicapi, Peekitahaminki, and Caabnąįkiisik are just a few names of the game played in North America long before French settlers arrived and gave it their own name: 'lacrosse.'"

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Exhibition Spotlighting Indigenous Roots of Lacrosse on View at Field Museum
Takapsicapi, Peekitahaminki, and Caabnąįkiisik are just a few names of the game played in North America long before French settlers arrived and gave it their own name: “lacrosse.”
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December 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
NeoFeed, an online publication in Brazil, covers the news of the "Bancos Indígenas do Brasil: Rituais," exhibition in Brasília, Brazil making it on FAAM's Top Ten Native Art Events of 2025 list.

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Por que os bancos indígenas do Brasil conquistaram o circuito internacional de arte - NeoFeed
Com peças da coleção de Marisa Moreira Salles e Tomás Alvim, exposição em Brasília é eleita por revista norte-americana uma das melhores mostras de Native Art do mundo em 2025
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December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Meet Jessica Ma'ilo (Delaware Nation/Kiowa/Samoan), FAAM's new operations manager!

An educator and writer, she created the Sparkle Strong Foundation and is a great-granddaughter of esteemed Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw.

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Meet Jessica Ma’ilo, FAAM’s New Operations Manager | FAAM
Meet Jessica Ma’ilo, FAAM’s new Operations Manager, and learn about her background and role supporting the magazine’s mission and future.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
FAAM's Top Ten Native Art Events of 2025 looks back at a year of amazing Indigenous art, exhibitions, and other accomplishments.

No 10. Indigenous Art 2025: 50th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Woodland Cultural Centre, Brandford, ON

See the full list: firstamerican.art/top-ten-2025
December 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
FAAM's Top Ten Native Art Events of 2025 looks back at a year of amazing Indigenous art.

No 9. James Lavadour: Land of Origin at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

See the full list: firstamerican.art/top-ten-2025

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December 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
FAAM's Top Ten Native Art Events of 2025 looks back at a year of amazing Indigenous art, exhibitions, honors, and more.

No 8. Sugarcane movie (2024) nominated for an Academy Award

See the full list: firstamerican.art/top-ten-2025/

#NativeArt #IndigenousArt #NativeSky #IndigiSky🔥
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM