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

Summary: "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. "--

Record details

ISBN: 9780826362094 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 196 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword -- Introduction -- Introduction to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection and the IAIA Archives -- Indian with a Watch -- The Gaze in Indigenous Art -- Mapping Indigenous Space and Place -- Presentations and Representations -- Transforming Art History in the Classroom -- "No Rules Make Art" -- Historical Essays.