Turquoise had become a symbol of Native art, even though it's only found mostly here in the Southwest. A lot of that is directly attributable to The Fred Harvey Company encouraging Native artisans ...

In her new collection, Maya, designer Nupur Kanoi, creates an illusion of patterns while fusing tribal art symbols, craft techniques and her newfound love for cats June 5, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

It wasn’t until 2020 that the National Gallery of Art made its first acquisition of a painting by a Native American artist: “Target,” a 1992 mixed-media work by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a ...

By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer From the pages of a 17th century Algonquin-language Bible, to a 2021 painting that celebrates the majesty of whales, a new exhibit at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst ...

A new Native American monument was unveiled in Sacramento's Capitol Park. A symbol of indigenous history, the statue of Miwok leader and preservationist William J. Franklin Sr. is now cemented in ...

Here the source was the symbolically loaded geometry found in traditional Native American quillwork, beadwork and quilting. Image Mary Sully, born Susan Mabel Deloria, at All Saints School circa 1912.

It's also ironic that the adoption of Native symbols by civic organizations often dates back to a time when Native American children were being taken from reservations and sent to boarding schools ...