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March 13, 2009

Comics, Capes & American Indians

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030503537.html?referrer=facebook

Comics and graphic novels can offer a starting point to ask questions about what makes a really great hero. A costume of red, white and blue, like Captain America? Or a tortured streak, a la Batman?

The comics in “Comic Art Indigène,” a small touring exhibition of drawings, comic books and sculpture opening today at the National Museum of the American Indian, covers all the bases — with a Native American spin. There is Eva Mirabal’s World War II strip featuring G.I. Gertie, along with Ryan Huna Smith’s casino-fighting Frybread Man. There is also Martha Arquero’s “Pueblo Spider-Man” figurine made of clay

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March 2, 2009

Comic Art Indigène
March 6, 2009–May 31, 2009
NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC

Storytelling has long been a part of Native American culture. Comic Art Indigène examines how storytelling has been used through comics and comic-inspired art to express the contemporary Native American experience. Under the larger definition of narrative art, comic art is more related to Native American art traditions than one might expect. The earliest surviving example of such narrative art is rock art. The historic examples used in the exhibition, such as photographs of rock art, ledger art, and ceramics, are meant to link Native American art traditions with contemporary voices.

Making comics and producing art inspired by them is a method of reclaiming the narrative art form of comics and Native American culture from those who would dismiss an art for the masses. Stories of humor, adventure and the fantastic depicted through pictures have always been an indigenous practice, and Native American scribes today grapple with the same topics emboldened with millennia-old cultural traditions, blended with new methods of expression and life in the 21st Century.

Comic Art Indigène is presented at the National Museum of the American Indian through the generous support of its National Council.

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This exhibit is traveling to the Smithsonian, open in a week!

Museum website: http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhi…
PR information: http://media.newmexicoculture.org/press_release…

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November 26, 2008

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August 24, 2008

Native American Street Art (via amarkfell)

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August 11, 2008

Navajo (via Lynne’s Lens)

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July 29, 2008

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May 13, 2008

Indigenous Comic Art

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2008/05/indigenous-comic-art.html

Newspaper Rock discusses the comic art Indigéne in more detail

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May 13, 2008

Comic Art Indigène | Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

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May 13, 2008

Comic Art Indigène | Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

http://miaclab.org/ComicArt/

From the comic art Indigéne website :

 This is where comics and the indigenous meet.

As an art form, comics are poorly understood, underanalyzed, and under-utilized. Created to be disposable yet widely read, comics are often dismissed as primitive and juvenile. Nevertheless, a generation of Native artists has embraced comics as an expressive medium. It is only natural that this marginal art appeals to oftmarginalized indigenous people, for both have been regarded as a primitive and malignant presence on the American landscape.

Like American Indian cultures, comic art is amazingly complex and adaptive. As the first widely-accessible mass media, comics were consumed by Indian people as a recognizable form of storytelling; expressing cultural stories through pictures.

On display May 11, 2008 through January 4, 2009, at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Comic Art Indigène is a journey into mystery in which Indian artists articulate identity, politics, and culture using the unique dynamics of comic art. This is a new world of American Indian art, full of the brash excitement first seen on newsprint a century ago — sometimes unrefined, often considered crude, but never sterile.

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