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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.

Nativescape welcomes Jhane Myers (Comanche Nation) who is the Producer of 20th Century Studios new movie, Prey which is the latest entry in the Predator franchise, the fifth installment and prequel to the first four films. This film started streaming in August as a Hulu Original in the United States. Prey is an American science fiction action horror set in the Northern Great Plains in North America in 1719.Jhane Myers is also an acclaimed artist, arts administrator, and filmmaker. She established herself as a vital cultural and community resource for Native-content projects produced which over the years have included: 1883 (Paramount); Wind River (Weinstein Co.); The Lone Ranger (Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films); and Apocalypto (Icon Ent./Touchstone). She was a Sundance Native American and Indigenous Program Fellow through her work on the 2019 project “Words from a Bear,” a documentary on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday on PBS’ American Masters. In 2018 she was as Time Warner Storyteller Fellow and served as Executive Producer on the opera “Sweet Land 2020,” which the Music Critics Association of North America cited best new opera award of 2021. She was an Associate Producer on the documentary film “LaDonna Harris Indian 101,” about acclaimed Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, which aired on PBS in 2014.

Nativescape welcomes Liz Wallace who is in a new Wheelwright Museum exhibition called, California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv (February 11, 2023 -January 14, 2024.) Exploring the impact of multiple generations of First California artists, Huivaniūs Pütsiv loosely translates from Chemehuevi as “stars with us or around us.” California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv highlights those landmark First Californian artists whose work across varied media combines to speak about personal experiences, mythology and traditions and speak to questions of resilience, identity, and social justice. With iconic works from the Wheelwright’s permanent collection and important loans and pieces not previously seen beyond the artists’ studios, California Stars gives insight into the work of stellar artists who have influenced the Native American contemporary art field for more than six decades. Liz Wallace began working in jewelry in the later part of the 1990s while living and working in Santa Fe. As a child of successful jewelers, she was nurtured by her family’s artistic environment, watching her parents’ working styles and linking creatively to her grandmother. Wallace’s jewelry is inspired by the natural world and expressed in her multiple representations of butterflies, katydids, dragonflies, and spiders. Her mastery of jewelry techniques ranges from blacksmithing to the delicate plique-à-jour. Plique-à-jour is an exacting enameling technique where a metal armature is filled with vitreous colors. It is a signature technique of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewelry, found in the work of the French master René Lalique.

Nativescape welcomes artist Jacob Meders, (Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria/Maidu) who is in a new Wheelwright Museum exhibition called, California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv (February 11, 2023 -January 14, 2024.) Exploring the impact of multiple generations of First California artists, Huivaniūs Pütsiv loosely translates from Chemehuevi as “stars with us or around us.” California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv highlights those landmark First Californian artists whose work across varied media combines to speak about personal experiences, mythology and traditions and speak to questions of resilience, identity, and social justice. With iconic works from the Wheelwright’s permanent collection and important loans and pieces not previously seen beyond the artists’ studios, California Stars gives insight into the work of stellar artists who have influenced the Native American contemporary art field for more than six decades. Jacob Meders is an Associate Professor in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Science at Arizona State University. In 2011 Meders established WarBird Press, a fine art printmaking studio that he operates as the Master Printmaker in Phoenix, AZ. Jacob’s work focuses on altered perceptions of place, culture, and identity built on the assimilation and homogenization of indigenous people. This work often ties into current issues faced in Indigenous communities. His work touches many interdisciplinary approaches and repeatedly plays with the boundaries of social engagement practices. His work continues to reexamine varied documentations of Native Americans through printing processes that hold onto stereotypical ideas and how they have affected the culture of the native people. Often using book forms and prints as a symbol of western knowledge and the linear mind, Jacob deploys them as a vehicle to challenge new perceptions of Native Americans.

Nativescape interviews the new Director of the Wheelwright Museum, Dr. Henrietta Lidchi. Listen to Dr. Lidchi discuss collecting, museums, and New Mexico. Before Dr. Lidchi’s new position at the Wheelwright Museum, she was the Head of Research and Collection and Chief Curator at the National Museum of World Cultures (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen) in the Netherlands, Keeper of World Cultures, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh and Deputy Keeper, Department of Ethnography, British Museum, London. Lidchi has curated over 20 permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions in the UK and the Netherlands. Some of her publications include Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Jewellery in the American Southwest in 2015 and Imaging the Arctic in 1998.

Nativescape welcomes Kim Begay (Navajo) and David Clapp who are recently hired staff in the collections management team at Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. David Clapp is the new Collections Manager and Kim Begay is the Assistant Collections Manager. Collections management is fundamental to what museums do, and in general describes how museums manage and care for their collections to meet both museum standards and legislation. During this interview we ask Kim and David what collection management means in the context of the Wheelwright Museum.

A fun, personal discussion of Debora's post-punk influences and her own cultural impact as a songwriter and performer. They delve into her career in education and her new chapter of life in Santa Fe.

This week, Paul interviews Robert Jenson & Wes Jackson, Authors of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity

Slow Food Santa Fe's Lissa Johnson and Nina Rosenberg talk with Brett Rapkin-Citrenbaum, Slow Food USA’s Farm Bill Community Organizer and Robb Hirsch, Co-founder of NM Healthy Soil about national and local issues related to renewal of the national farm bill.