The Jingle Dress makes an appearance at the Metropolitan Museum
By Zibiquah The Metropolitan Museum of Art, better known as The Met in New York City, hosted a most welcome addition to its numerous exhibitions and displays in honor of Native Heritage Month. The Sound of Healing, Native American Art, Music and Dance during Pandemics, was brought together by Dr. Brenda Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) […]
One homeless encampment cleared; another remembered
By Lee Egerstrom Minneapolis city officials cleared an impromptu homeless encampment in early October along East Franklin Avenue on the edge of the American Indian Cultural Corridor. Artwork will now commemorate the former Wall of Forgotten Natives encampment in the same area and raise public awareness of the continuing homeless crisis. Closing the encampment that […]
Julie Buffalohead’s art gives no answers to the viewer
BY DEBORAH LOCKE The thing about Julie Buffalohead’s newest exhibit of art at the Bockley Gallery is this. You can second guess her till the cows come home on what raccoon is doing in the water pail or why duck stands on one leg at the kitchen table under a fond (or suspicious) gaze of fox. […]
Dakota artist creates Indigemojis
By Lee Egerstrom David Bernie, a Minneapolis-based Ihanktowan (Yankton Sioux) artist who combines graphic design with modern technology, is working to bring his “Indigemojis” art applications to formats usable by most mobile devices and online technology. The Tiwahe Foundation in the Twin Cities has given Bernie a grant to expand his Native American and First Nations-themed […]