Exhibition artists discuss the history of Plains narrative art and the inspirations behind their contemporary work during the 2024 Folklife Festival.

Fellow fiber artists Velma Kee Craig (Diné) and Helena Hernmarck join Begay to discuss Indigenous weaving traditions and the diversity of textile arts.

Follow the journey of Lily Gladstone and her porcupine-quill–adorned gowns from the red carpet to the NMAI.

In her Jemez Pueblo home studio, artist Kathleen Wall creates imaginative ceramic figures and paintings that depict a jubilant look into everyday life.

The exhibition juxtaposes historical hides, muslins, and ledger books with more than 50 commissioned contemporary works to explore narrative art among Native nations of the Great Plains.

Twin Swinomish artists are carving their own path while carrying on Coast Salish traditions.

An NMAI exhibition showcases the innovative works of Diné tapestry artist DY Begay, who weaves together her memories and the stunning vistas of her ancestral home on the Navajo Nation.

Fiber artist DY Begay's work is an exploration of the artist’s passion for experiencing and interpreting her world.

A renowned First Nations artist depicts Native stories through her vibrant Woodlands-style scenes.

Zapotec photographer Citlali Fabián documents the lives of Yalálag residents in Mexico and Los Angeles.

This video from the exhibition Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe introduces one of the twentieth century’s most innovative Native American painters.

The first major retrospective of contemporary artist Robert Houle's work celebrates more than fifty years of his remarkable career.

This exhibition celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.

This exhibition in Washington, DC, presents the contemporary art of Robert Houle.

Contemporary artist Robert Houle (Saulteaux Anishinaabe), landscape artist Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation), and the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Curator of Indigenous Art Wanda Nanibush (Anishinaabe) discuss Houle’s 50-year career.

An NMAI exhibition features the candid art of Six Nations Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) artist, photographer and filmmaker Shelley Niro—works that shine a harsh spotlight on society yet provide a healing outlet for her people.

Through monochromatic imagery, Nīa MacKnight highlights the power of the spirit within times of social unrest.

This livestreamed event examined the work of photographers who are lending their voices to defining what it means to be Indigenous today.

A new NMAI exhibition spotlights the bold, abstract artworks of Saulteaux Anishinaabe artist Robert Houle.

An exhibition at the NMAI in New York features the captivating works of Yanktonai Dakota painter and educator Oscar Howe, who fractured stereotypes of what defined Native art and inspired generations of Native artists.

This workshop series used the museum’s Essential Understandings framework and artworks by contemporary Indigenous women artists to help teachers deepen their knowledge of Indigenous women’s roles and contributions.

Preston Singletary's artworks feature themes of transformation, animal spirits, and shamanism through elegant blown glass forms and mystical sand-carved Tlingit designs.

Preston Singletary’s innovative “Raven and the Box of Daylight” exhibition and other works have altered the glass art movement and brought North Pacific Coast cultures to light.

Acclaimed artists Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish/Cree/Shoshone) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee) discuss their work, their distinguished careers, and their thoughts on the current state of Native American contemporary art.

Mandy Van Heuvelen, a cultural interpreter coordinator at the National Museum of the American Indian, shares the story of contemporary Native artist Nora Naranjo Morse. Morse created the sculptures that sit outside of the museum in Washington, D.C.

This ten-part series documents NMAI's first commissioned sculpture by Pueblo artist Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara).