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Patsy Phillips, MoCNA Director
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news from the director
Dear Members and Friends,
Happy New Year from MoCNA!
MoCNA staff will continue to bring you progressive, innovative and unconventional contemporary Native art exhibitions and programs throughout 2014.
Opening with ARTiculations in Print, a museum-wide focus on the medium of printmaking, the reception at the museum will be Friday, January 24, 2014 from 5 -7p.m. MoCNA will feature prints from the Crow's Shadow Institute of Arts collection and print-based exhibitions by Sallyann Paschall, Alex Pe�a, Tony Tiger, John Hitchcock, and David Sloan. And, a selection of prints by the late renowned Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) will also be showcased.
Prints from MoCNA's permanent collection will be exhibited in Bon � Tirer meaning, "good to pull" or "ready to print" and includes artists Norman Akers, Harry Fonseca, Keri Ataumbi, Duane Slick, C. Maxx Stevens, Marie Watt and Emmi Whitehorse. The Helen Hardin Media Gallery will showcase five films from the Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program. The schedule for the feature films and programming through March are listed below, be sure to visit our website to find more information about our upcoming programs.
IAIA and MoCNA are reducing their carbon footprint by "going green." We will continue to send the newsletter electronically, but if you receive our newsletter first class mail this will be the last printed newsletter you will receive unless we hear back from you. If you have an email address, please send a message directly to Andrea Hanley, Membership and Program Manager. ( [email protected]) If you do not have an email address and want to continue to receive our newsletters via first class mail, please call Andrea at 505-428-5907.
Andrea is also starting a new column in this newsletter called, the MoCNA Buzz, to highlight people in the field of contemporary Native arts. Contact Andrea directly with information about your accomplishments to be published in the next MoCNA newsletter.
MoCNA achieves its mission in partnership with members like you - who share our values and goals. You make a difference in the lives of people who work in contemporary Native arts. We are proud to share our achievements with you, as you are essential to our success.
Hope 2014 is a great year for you and your family!
Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation), Director
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MoCNA's Winter
exhibitions and program schedule
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Wendy Red Star, Enit, 2010, lithograph (Image Courtesy of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts)
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ARTiculations in Print featuring:
Crow's Shadow Institute of Arts Collection
January 25 - July 31, 2014
Main Gallery
A selection of prints from the Crow's Shadow Press signifies the ever-growing portfolio of prints produced over a 20-year period since the founding of the Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, located in Pendleton, Oregon. The exhibition encompasses the work of many outstanding artists of diverse backgrounds and media. Click here for more information.
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Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013), Peaceful Repose, ed 20/50, 2007, etching and aquatint, 31 x 23.5 (Edd Guarino Collection, Image Courtesy of MoCNA)
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January 25 - July 31, 2014
Main Gallery
A selection of prints by internationally celebrated Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) from the Edward J. Guarino Collection celebrate the Cape Dorset artist's contribution to the art world. Click here for more information.
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John Hitchcock, Cotton Electric, 2013, 30 x 44 inches (Image Courtesy of the Artist)
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January 25 - July 31, 2014
Fritz Scholder Gallery
John Hitchcock's exhibition Traces of the Plains consists of works on paper, multimedia installation of printed matter and video that reference the trauma of war and fragility of life. Click here for more information.
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 | | David Sloan, Ts�sn�łb�h� (Honey Bee) #1, ed 11/13, 2013, Mono print, 11 x 15 (Image Courtesy of the Artist) |
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David Sloan:
T'ah aniiłtso Y��'bii' Neiikai (Endangered Species)
January 25 - July 31, 2014
Foyer Gallery
In the exhibition David Sloan's mono-prints include silkscreened images of endangered species with their Din� names over lithograph reproductions of old 1970's Navajo Times newspaper ads. Sloan's conscious intentions compare and contrast eco-philosophies of American consumer culture with traditional Din� world perspective. Click here for more information.
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Alex Pena, Volatile Certainty #8, 2013, digital, oil, ink, gesso, paper (Image Courtesy of MoCNA)
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Sallyann Paschall, Mineral Mix, 2013-14 (installation), ink, paper, string, various dimensions (Image Courtesy of MoCNA)
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Sallyann Paschall and
Alex Pe�a:
The Place Between
January 25 - March 31, 2014
South Gallery
The two-person exhibition The Place Between draws from and expands upon the conceptual basis of the "original multiple" supported by the printmaking process and the potential for creative manipulation to interpret a sense of place . For more information click here.
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 | | Norman Akers, The Red Hill, ed. AP, ca 1988, serigraph, 20 x 22, Collection of MoCNA (Image Courtesy of MoCNA) |
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Bon � Tirer:
Prints from MoCNA's Permanent Collection
January 25 - March 31, 2014
May 24 - July 31, 2014
Hall Gallery
Bon � Tirer or more commonly seen written as "B.A.T." on a Fine Art print, is a French term meaning good to pull. For the purpose of this exhibition, the curators (Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer and Alex Pe�a) are metaphorically using the term for curatorial authority that references their discretion to qualify a print good to pull or pull out of MoCNA's permanent collection for exhibition. For more information click here.
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Tony Tiger, Essence of Being, 2013, acrylic on paper, 28 x 58 (Image Courtesy of the Artist)
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Tony Tiger: Full Consciousness of Being
January 25 - May 11, 2014
North Gallery
In the mixed-media exhibition Full Consciousness of Being Tiger's context for expression arises from the totality of his personal observations related to intercultural experiences, while drawing upon the critical influences Native people actively contribute to society, historically and contemporaneously. For more information click here.
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Photo Still Courtesy: Sikumi (On the Ice)
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Native American Short Films presented by Sundance at MoCNA
January 25 - March 31, 2014
May 24 - July 31, 2014
Helen Hardin Media Gallery
Featuring five films from Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program including:
Sikumi (ON THE ICE) by director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq.)
Nikamowin (SONG) by director Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Creek.)
Shim�s�n�, by director and screenwriter Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo.)
Gesture Down - I Don't Sing by director, Ceder Sherbert (Kumeyaay), and Two Cars One Night /New Zealand by director and screenwriter Taika Waititi (Te Whanau Apanui.) For more information click here.
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The MoCNA Store offers an array of merchandise that represents tribes throughout North America. Currently, our walls are hung with beautiful art work created by IAIA alumni. Courtney Leonard (Shinnecock) has produced an outstanding group of paintings in her whale series. Alex Pena (Comanche/ San Ildefonso/ Pawnee) consigned beautiful mixed media works. Monty Yellow Bird (Arikara/Hidatsa), an award winning ledger painting, has exquisite work for sale. For the collector who might want something smaller, the MoCNA Store has petite paintings by both Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga/Nez Perce) and Sallyann Paschall (Cherokee).
We offer a full range of Southwestern jewelry made by local Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo artists. Unlike other stores and galleries in Santa Fe, however, the MocNA Store presents jewelry made by a diverse group of artists from other parts of the continent whose work is not found elsewhere.
Our children's category has grown considerably. Besides sterling silver baby bracelets and hand-beaded baby moccasins, the store has plush toys from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Pendleton baby blankets, and a full range of kids' books. All of the extraordinary books by Paul Goble are available.
We continue to have the most extensive library of Native American books available anywhere, and our selection includes both fiction and non-fiction. Here again, you can find the literary works of IAIA alumni.
For more information contact us via email and phone: 1-888-922-IAIA (4242) or 505-983-1666.
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from the membership office:
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Give the gift of art to a friend, colleague, or family member with a MoCNA gift membership! MoCNA gift memberships last a full year and make a wonderful gift for any occasion.
Click here to join MoCNA or purchase a gift membershipWe hope to see you and your friends at MoCNA!
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recent acquisitions:
Showcased in the 2012 one-man exhibition of the same name at MoCNA, Mateo Romero's Red Meridian juxtaposed images from his Pueblo community against post-modern mainstream society to create new meanings about these two ideologies that exist today.
Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in the 80's and received his MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. MoCNA has collected Romero's work since his arrival at IAIA. His continuing legacy includes social issues, no matter how unpleasant. Red Meridian was generously donated to the MoCNA collection by the artist in 2013. About the collection: The MoCNA collection is comprised of nearly 7,500 works of art that documents the contributions of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and other important artists to the contemporary Native art movement in the United States, Canada and other countries, ca. 1930 to the present. Located on IAIA's campus, the collection is available for research by appointment. To request an appointment, please click here.
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general info
MoCNA's mission is to advance contemporary Native art through exhibitions, collections, public programs and scholarship.
MoCNA acknowledges the support from the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% lodgers tax. We welcome your inquiries: [email protected]
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MoCNA calendar of events
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All events are free to the public
Artist Talk with Tony Tiger
Saturday, January 25, 2014
2- 4p.m.MoCNA 2nd Floor Conference Room
Please join artist Tony Tiger as he discusses his art practice and his current MoCNA exhibition, Full Consciousness of Being. Tiger, an enrolled member of the Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma and also of Muskogee Creek and Seminole descent, is a mixed media artist, curator and educator. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently the Director of Art and Assistant Professor of Art at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series
Thursday, February 6, 20145 - 7p.m. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 2401 12th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 (505) 843-7270  MoCNA working in collaboration with Americans for Indian Opportunity, creates a forum in the Southwest for Indigenous peoples to share knowledge and  strategies for advancing tribal self-determination within an era of intense globalization. This interdisciplinary series will convene visionary Indigenous leaders to probe contemporary issues and address the critical challenges facing Indigenous communities in the new century. Moderated by AIO Executive Director, Laura Harris, this session will focus on repatriation & cultural patrimony on a local, national and international level, panelists include LaDonna Harris, AIO President, Jacquette Swift and Terry Snowball, both from repatriation department of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution and John Beaver, Director of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Museum. BFA Creative Writing Event: Hearts Afire Sunday, February 9, 2014 2-4p.m MoCNA 2nd Floor Conference Room Please join IAIA faculty and students as they celebrate the month of love with a reading. Faculty: Jon Davis, Evelina Zuni Lucero and James Thomas Stevens. IAIA Students: Collestipher Chatto, Kamella Bird-Romero, Katherina Deiter, Sasha LaPointe and Jamie Natonabah. Brown Bag Discussion and Printmaking Demonstration
with artist David Sloan Wednesday, March 12, 2014
12 - 1p.m. MoCNA 2nd Floor Conference Room Bring your lunch and join artist, David Sloan as he discusses his art practice and demonstrates print making. Sloan, who works in the mediums of printmaking, jewelry, and painting, was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is Din� and Tohono O'odham from his mother's side, and of Irish and English decent on his father's side. In his artwork, Sloan draws attention to his Din� culture and language, and the effects of the ever-changing environment. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 2-Dimensional Studio Arts with a minor in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona in 2003. Interaction in Art or the Art of Ping Pong Friday, March 21, 2014 4 - 6p.m. Allan Houser Art Park
Interaction in Art is inspired by the wildly popular brainchild of Arizona's Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's Arm Wrestling for Art. MoCNA invites community guests to learn about current exhibition artist Sallyann Paschall from a curator, learn how to play ping pong from an expert, and then sweat it out to win an original work of art made by Sallyann Paschall specifically for the event. Don't miss out on the fun. Indigenous Community Art Projects (Panel Discussion) Sharing the Creative Spirit: Indigenous Community Art Projects
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 
12 -2p.m. MoCNA Main Gallery The Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce its 2014 Speaker Series. This series was developed jointly between the School for Advanced Research and Institute of American Indian Arts and will take place at SAR and MoCNA. Speakers will delve into subjects surrounding art, interpretation, and the business of art. This panel features, Christi Belcourt and Sherry Farrell Racette, M�tis, "Walking With Our Sisters," Dylan Miner, M�tis, "Anishnaabensag Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids Ride Bikes)" and Douglas Miles, San Carlos Apache/Akimel O'odham, "Apache Skateboards." It will be moderated by MoCNA Chief Curator, Ryan Rice. Local Artist in Residence Artist Talk and Open Studio
Sunday, March 30, 2014
12-4p.m.
MoCNA Second Floor Conference Room and Artist Studio
Courtney Leonard, MoCNA's Local Artist In Residence, will give a talk from 2 - 3 p.m. and open her studio to the public from 12 - 4 p.m.The Shinnecock Nation-raised, Rhode Island School of Design-educated artist explores the intersections of language, image and culture through ceramics, sculpture, painting and mixed-media. Her focus is to produce a dialogue between artist and viewer.
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