The ''First American Art Magazine'' is a quarterly
art magazine
An art magazine is a publication whose main topic is art. They can be in print form, online, or both and may be aimed at different audiences, including galleries, buyers, amateur or professional artists and the general public. Art magazines can be ...
covering living, historical, and ancestral
art of Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Background
''First American Art Magazine'' was established in 2013 "to provide a common platform for Native and non-Native academics, art professionals, artists, collectors, and other interested readers to seriously investigate and celebrate Indigenous American art—from ancestral to 21st century artwork." The publishing editor is
America Meredith (
Cherokee Nation); literary editor is Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD; publicity director is Barbara Harjo; and circulation manager is Melissa Dominguez.
Content
The magazine includes profiles of living Native artists, features articles, and several departments: Recent Developments (news); an "Exploring Native Graphic Design" column; Seven Directions (a top seven list); "Spotlight" (focusing on an individual artwork); Advice; Art + Literature; memorials; classified advertising; and reviews of art exhibitions, art books, and video/films.
Distribution
FAAM is distributed in Canada, the United States, and internationally by
Disticor Magazine Distribution Services, as well as directly by the publisher and at Native American art fairs and conferences.
Honors
''
Library Journal'' selected ''First American Art Magazine'' as one of its Best Magazines launched in 2013, and wrote that, "A notable strength of the publication is its emphasis on the work of contemporary artists."
See also
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American Indian studies
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Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation)
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Kelly Church
Kelly Jean Church ( Match-e-benash-she-wish Potawatomi/Odawa/Ojibwe) is a black ash basket maker, Woodlands style painter, birchbark biter, and educator.
Background
Kelly Church, a fifth-generation basket maker, was born in 1967. She grew up ...
(Odawa/Ojibwe/Potawatomi)
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Teri Greeves (Kiowa)
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Suzan Shown Harjo, Hon.DFA (Cheyenne/Muscogee)
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Thollem McDonas
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Mary Jo Watson
Mary Jo Watson is a Seminole art historian and director emeritus and a regents professor at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma. Her work focuses on the theory and development of teaching methodology for Native Ameri ...
, PhD (Seminole)
References
External links
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"FIRST AMERICAN ART Celebrates Indigenous Art and Artists" by Dawn Karima, powwows.com
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Cherokee Phoenix
The ''Cherokee Phoenix'' ( chr, ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ, translit=Tsalagi Tsulehisanvhi) is the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was pu ...
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Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Visual arts magazines published in the United States
Independent magazines
Indigenous art of the Americas
Magazines established in 2013
Magazines published in Oklahoma
Native American magazines
Native American studies
Magazines published in New Mexico