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Canadian curator and artist Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree) on his extensive curatorial/art practice and his respective work in the Wheelwright Museum’s current exhibition Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art.

Authors and siblings Keith and Chenoa Egawa (Lummi) discuss their new book, The Whale Child, a middle-grade title that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters.

Shonto Begay (Navajo) joins Nativescape for a special reading of his 1995 book, "Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa."

Nativescape presents multi-disciplinary artist, Nathan Young (Delaware/Kiowa/Pawnee), who researched the Wheelwright Museum collection, and through exploration and selection created a site-specific installation utilizing his findings. The installation, Activation/Transformation will be on display from November 6, 2021, through April 3, 2022.

Guest Devorah Romanek, Curator of Exhibits at Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, discusses her book: "Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow: An Officer’s Photo Album of 1866 New Mexico Territory."

Guest Kim Peone, Director of SWAIA (Southwestern Association for Indian Arts), discusses the upcoming Santa Fe Indian Market on the weekend of August 20th – 21st.

Fernanda Banda, Campaign Manager for the NM Dream Team, discusses wins and losses for immigrant youth in the 2023 legislative session.

Nativescape welcomes Sherwin Bitsui is (Diné) the author of Dissolve and Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) which won an American Book Award and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is from White Cone, Arizona which is on the Navajo Nation. On top of the American Book Award, his honors also include the 2011 Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Native Arts & Culture Foundation Fellowship for Literature, a PEN Open Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award, and a Truman Capote Creative Writing Fellowship. Bitsui also just received tenure as an Associate professor in the English Department at Northern Arizona University.

Nativescape welcomes Kim Peone, Executive Director of SWAIA to discuss this year's Indian Market in Santa Fe. Each August, an estimated 100,000 people attend the largest juried Native American art show in the world - the Southwestern Association of American Indian Art’s (SWAIA’s) annual Indian Market. This remarkable event takes place on and around the central plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and sponsors over one-thousand Native artists from more than one-hundred tribal communities in North America and Canada. Artists show their latest work and compete for awards in SWAIA’s prestigious judged art competition. Santa Fe’s Indian Market has endured for the past 100-years and today generates upwards of 160 million dollars annually in revenues for artists and the community.

Nativescape welcomes Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), the producer of SWAIA’s 9th Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has been drawing visitors to New Mexico’s cultural hub every August to see and buy work, including sculpture and paintings, jewelry, and beadwork from Indigenous artists representing more than 200-plus federally recognized tribes. SWAIA’s Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show is one of the premier showcases for North American indigenous fashion designers in the world. Progressive in the way it presents fashion, it also reflects the style and thoughts of contemporary Indigenous people and is one of the most important cultural moments of the year. Wheelwright Museum Board Member Amber-Dawn Bear Robe is an Assistant Faculty of Art History in the Museum Studies department at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Her curatorial practice which focuses on Fashion, includes a recent exhibition entitled, Art of Indigenous Fashion which was at the IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, two exhibitions in process at the Autry Museum of the American West, CA and the Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada. She was awarded regional Emmys in 2020 and 2021, as the producer for two documentary short films on Indigenous fashion. She is an acting trustee for the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) board.