Wheelwright Library, Saturday, May 27, 10AM
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi/Choctaw) (MoCNA Curator of Collections) and Ryan S. Flahive (IAIA Archivist) discuss collecting the archive of performance and installation artist James Luna (Luiseno/Diegueno) created at his home on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California.
Join IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Curator of Collections, Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi/Choctaw) and IAIA Archivist Ryan S. Flahive as they discuss the adventures of collecting the archives of performance and installation artist James Luna,1950 – 2018, (Luiseño, Puyukitchum, Ipai, and Mexican) at his home on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California in 2013. They will also discuss the positive aftereffects of the archives project, including programming and other collaborations as a case study for the interdisciplinary model of the new IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA).
Ryan S. Flahive is an educator and historian and currently works as Archivist and Museum Studies faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since 2009, Flahive has stewarded and promoted the rich archival history of IAIA through exhibitions, publications, classes, and lectures. He compiled and edited Celebrating Difference: Fifty Years of Contemporary Native Arts at IAIA, 1962-2012 (2012) and The Sound of Drums: A Memoir of Lloyd Kiva New (2016). Flahive also contributed writing to Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s (2018) and Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (2021). Flahive is the immediate past President of the New Mexico Association of Museums (NMAM), serves on the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board (NMHRAB), and also serves on the Advisory Board for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM).
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer is the Curator of Collections at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe, NM. She is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Hopi and holds a BFA in Fine Arts Administration from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Lomahaftewa-Singer has more than thirty years of experience with contemporary Native American Art and has curated or project-managed exhibitions at MoCNA including: The Stories We Carry, Experimental Expression: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963-1980, Action/Abstraction Redefined: Native American Art, 1940s to 1970s, iCon: A Tribute to Allan Houser, Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design & Influence, 50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, Drawing from the Collection, Voices from the Mound: Contemporary Choctaw, Valjean McCarty Hessing Honored, and Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tri-cultural Myth. She has authored catalog essays in Action/Abstraction Redefined: Native American Art, 1940s to 1970s (2018), 50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years (2012), and Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tri-cultural Myth (2007). She currently sits on the New Mexico Capital Arts Foundation Board, Terra Foundation Indigenous Advisory Council, and has juried numerous art programs including the Forge Project Fellowships, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Fellowships, and the Santa Fe Art Institute Visual Arts Review Committee.
Cost:
Free
Date:
May 27, 2023
Time:
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location:
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo
Santa Fe, NM
(505) 982-4636
Organizer:
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
(505) 982-4636
info@wheelwright.org
Admission: $10.00
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