August 2026 is FULL of Native Art Events! Check out our online calendar to learn more: firstamerican.art/calendar Pictured: Craig George (Diné), “nizhóní nation #1,” 2025, oil on linen, 24 × 20 in. part of the Sovereign Santa Fe events

Cady de la Cruz (Quechua-American) reviews "Voices Now: Contemporary Native American Art" and "Homelands: The Osage in Missouri," two exhibitions on view at the Museum of Kansas City until February 21, 2027 for our Summer 2026 issue.

Aspen, CO—"Living Lines: Contemporary Native Voices" at the Casterline|Goodman Gallery, 611 E. Cooper Av. Reception: Friday, June 3, 6–8 pm www.casterlinegoodman.com/viewing-room... #IndigiSky🔥 #NativeSky #ArtSky #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #AspenCO #NDNArt

Living Lines: Contemporary Native Voices

Casterline|Goodman Gallery is proud to present Living Lines: Contemporary Native Voices , a landmark group exhibition opening July 20, 2026 , at 611 East Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado . Featuring w...

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Help us celebrate the next generation of Indigenous artists! Know a program helping Indigenous youth explore the arts? How about a talented young Indigenous artist? We'd love to hear about it! Nominations forms linked in comments 👇

Montclair Art Museum Appoints Todd Caissie (Osage) as Executive Director firstamerican.art/montclair-ap... #IndigiSky🔥 #NativeSky #ArtSky #Osage #NativeAmerican #Museums #MontclairArtMuseum #ToddCaissie #Indigenous #NDNArt #NativeArt

Todd Caissie Named Executive Director of Montclair Art Museum

Montclair, NJ – Todd Caissie, the new executive director of the Montclair Art Museum, focuses on community programming and Native leadership.

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Claire Green Young, a Choctaw Nation public arts manager and curator, shares her top seven list in our latest "Seven Directions" department. Pick up a copy of the Summer 2026 issue to see Green Young's selections.

Have a Native art exhibition you'd like to share with the world? Submit it to the FAAM calendar! firstamerican.art/submit-an-ev...

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Use this online form to submit your Native art event to FAAM's online calendar. Listings are free of charge.

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Everyone can appreciate Native art with First American Art Magazine!

The work of Grand River Mohawk artists Michael and Sierra Barber in "Beads, Brushes, and Blood Memory," is featured in our Summer 2026 issue, out now. 1/2

Santa Fe – SWAIA Partners with Tribes for the 2026 Santa Fe Indian Market! firstamerican.art/swaia-tribal... #NativeSky #ArtSky #IndigiSky🔥 #SantaFe #SWAIA #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #NDNArt #SaveHickoryGround

Santa Fe Indian Market Announces Tribal Partnerships - First American Art Magazine

Santa Fe – SWAIA partners with tribes to bolster tribal visual sovereignty. These tribes will cosponsor film and other robust programming.

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Celebrate Native art — pick up the latest issue of First American Art Magazine, out now! firstamerican.art/current-issue

🌻FAAM's Issue No. 51, Summer 2026, is out and full of features, profiles, reviews, and much more!🌻 firstamerican.art/current-issue

Carnegie, OK — Congratulations to all the winners of the 3rd annual Kiowa Art Show, especially Best of Show winner Jeff Yellowhair (Kiowa/Apache)! See more: firstamerican.art/kiowa-art-sh... #NativeSky #Indigisky🔥 #NativeArt #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #Kiowa #NDNArt #NativeAmerican #Indigenous

3rd Annual Kiowa Art Show Winners - First American Art Magazine

Carnegie, OK – The Huntinghorse Tsatoke Kiowa Tribe Art Show showcased artworks created by Kiowa citizens and descendents, across media.

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Bar Harbor, ME – The Dawnland Festival of Arts and Ideas is this coming weekend! July 11 & 12 at the College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street. Hosted by the Abbe Museum. Speakers, music, 50+ artist booths, book signings, and more! www.abbemuseum.org/dawnland-fes...

DAWNLAND FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS — Abbe Museum

Join us July 11-12, 2026, for the Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas, a celebration of Wabanaki culture at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. As one of the best cultural festivals in Mai...

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Three Indigenous artworks within 3 blocks of one another in downtown San Francisco. ❤️ 1. Jeffrey Gibson (2026) 2. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and James Luna (1993) 3. Rose B. Simpson (2025) Photos by Anya Montiel, PhD (Mestiza/Tohono O'odham descent) #ArtSky #NativeSky #IndigiSky🔥 #NDNArt #SFCA

Check out the Native Art events happening in July 2026! firstamerican.art/calendar Pictured: Oil painting by Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq); part of the Linda Infante Lyons exhibition at the Bunnell Street Arts Center.

Congratulations to Carrie Moran McCleary (Little Shell Chippewa) on receiving the 2026 Eiteljorg Indian Market and Festival Best of Show award for her piece “Reclaiming the Sisterhood of the Tuppie.” See the rest of the award recipients here: eiteljorg.org/2026-indian-...

"Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, uses the phrase 'colonial entanglements' to describe the complexity of U.S.-tribal relations."

Native Americans mark the US 250th with pride, pain and patriotism

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Swiftly marching toward westward expansion, the United States in the 1800s brought with it a tidal wave of displacement and cultural suppression for Native Americans. A centur…

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"The Native artwork will be figured prominently in the main tower and outside in the gardens, asserting their rightful place in Obama’s story of how he sees the America he presided over for eight years." ictnews.org/news/indigen...

Indigenous art shapes the narrative at Obama Presidential Center - ICT

The Chicago venue aims to be a cultural center for all

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"When Mvskoke Waters Gallery opened in December 2025, the first night was set aside for artists featured in the inaugural exhibition and their families. I often joke that Mvskoke people travel in packs, but we really do. Generations gathered that night before the public opening. 1/3

A posthumous retrospective honors the life and work of Comanche/Kickapoo artist Wendy Amber “Numu Petas” Mahsetky-Poolaw (1969–2006). Learn more on our site: firstamerican.art/wendy-mahset...

Posthumous Retrospective Honors Wendy Mahsetky-Poolaw - FAAM

Wendy Mahsetky-Poolaw: Memory and Presence runs July 10–August 29, 2026 in Norman, OK featuring mixed-media works and selected pieces by Kiowa artist Thomas Poolaw.

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Congratulations to FAAM Advisor Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq) and the entire team of Indigenous curators on the exhibition "Qillaniq" at the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition features artists from Alaska, Inuit Nunangat, Greenland, and Sápmi. nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

‘Huge movement’ to connect North reflected in Ottawa exhibition

Visitors entering the National Gallery of Canada’s newest exhibition in Ottawa will be able to sit inside a large qaggiq — or igloo used for community gatherings — reimagined as a woven grass basket.

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June 14 to 20 is Uncontacted Peoples Week: www.uncontactedpeoples.org #uncontactedpeoplesweek #UncontactedTribes #BLUEDEER #FirstAmArt

Read about the life and work of Michael Chiago Sr. (Tohono O'odham/Pima-Maricopa) in our Spring 2026 issue. 📷: Michael Chiago Sr (Tohono O'odham/Pima-Maricopa), "Friendship Dance with the Man in the Maze and Cactus Fruit Harvesting," 2025, watercolor on cedar wood. Image courtesy of the artist.

Happy Pride Month! Read a review by Cady de la Cruz (Quechua) of "Queering Indigeneity," an exhibition at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, MN, in our Spring 2026 issue.

Whitehorse, Yukon – The Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre hosts the "My Big Bougie Beaded* Earrings" exhibition in Whitehorse until Aug. 21. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Earring exhibit puts beadwork and storytelling on display in Whitehorse | CBC News

Yukon First Nations artists have intricately hand-made earrings on display at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre gallery for My Big Bougie Beaded* Earrings.

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Kamloops, BC – Tk’emlups artist Shay Paul founded a Kamloops arts collective to redefine First Nations art. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

She’s Changing How Indigenous Artists See Themselves | The Tyee

Tk’emlups artist Shay Paul founded a Kamloops arts collective to redefine First Nations art. A Tyee Creative Forces interview.

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Micah Wesley (Kiowa/Muscogee), "Bonds of Antiquity: American Prayer," 2025, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 in. Image courtesy of the artist. From "Kiowa/Muscogee Painter & DJ Micah Wesley" by Devon Jackson, out now in our Spring 2026 issue.

Tidelands Native Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, fosters Indigenous Futurisms through art and storytelling. Read more in the Venue department of our Spring 2026 issue.

Nanette Kelley (Osage Nation/Cherokee Nation) reviews "James Lavadour: Land of Origin" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon for the Spring 2026 issue, available on our site.