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Making history : IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts

Mithlo, Nancy Marie, editor

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\"Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers-students, educators, collectors, and the public-in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a Native-centric point of view. Topics include biography, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, coding, arts critique, curation, and writing about Indigenous art. Featuring two original poems, ten essayrs authored by senior scholars in the field of Indigenous art, nearly two hundred works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA's nearly sixty-year history, Making History offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts movement\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Subject: Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. / Indian art Study and teaching United States. / Art criticism Study and teaching United States.
• ISBN: 9780826362094

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6538.A4 M35 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE