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Past, Present, and Future
Chiefly papers presented at the symposium "Past, Present, and Future Challenges of the National Museum of the American Indian" held at the museum on October 10, 2007.
Indigenous Motivations
Since its inception in 1989, the museum has added contemporary Native art and objects to its collections, across all genres. Indigenous Motivations highlights some of the most important, interesting, and amusing of these works, Brief, lively essays discuss why contemporary Native people continue to make art, and why museums collect it. It is the art itself, however, that steals the show. Never-before-published photographs convey the beauty and vitality of these newest treasures in the museum's marvelous collection.
The Native Universe and Museums in the Twenty-first Century
The Native Universe and Museums in the Twenty-First Century explores from a global perspective the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Eight essays--presented at the museum's Opening International Symposium in September 2004 and written by museum professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States--address the representation and interpretation of indigenous peoples in museums, the role of contemporary artists in the museum's work, and the responsibility of institutions like NMAI to support contemporary Native cultures and arts.
The Land Has Memory
In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others inv...
Do All Indians Live in Tipis?
Answers questions about Native Americans, including those related to identity, origins and history, animals and land, language and education, love and marriage, and culture.
Vision, Space, Desire
In Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity, distinguished thinkers from around the globe explore the ever-changing realities of contemporary art and discuss new strategies to frame the ways Native contemporary artists are regarded in the international art world. This book, which grew out of a symposium held by the National Museum of the American Indian in December 2005, features a lively exchange of ideas among Native and non-Native museum directors and curators, artists, critics, and scholars from around the world, and opens new possibilities in contemporary art practice and engagement.
The National Museum of the American Indian
The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the myriad indigenous nations within its borders. Constructed with materials closely connected to Native communities across the continent, the museum contains more than 800,000 objects and three permanent galleries and routinely holds workshops and seminar series. This first comprehensive look at the National Museum of the American Indian encompasses a variety of perspectives, including those of Natives and non-Natives, museum employees, and outside scholars across disciplines such as cultural studies and criticism, art history, history, museum studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Native American studies. The contributors engage in critical dialogues about key aspects of the museum?s origin, exhibits, significance, and the relationship between Native Americans and other related museums.
Essays on Native Modernism
The essays in this book continue a dialogue about George Morrison and Allan Houser's legacies started at NMAI during their exhibition titled "Native Modernism: The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser", as well as exploring the basis of a "Native modernism" by eliciting a broad discussion about the critical perspectives and practices of Native artists across North America--Page 23.
