Native America Calling

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 – Photography in Native America

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Photographs can be so much more than Instagram snapshots and Facebook posts. They tell stories, document our lives and preserve our memories. How is photography important to individuals, communities and tribes? When everyone with a cell phone can be a photographer, what makes good photography stand out? Why is it relevant in Native America? What stories are we telling through the camera lens?

Guests:

Sam Minkler (Diné) — photographer and professor at Northern Arizona University

Eugene Tapahe (Navajo) — owner of Tapahe Photography and Tapahe Inventive Designs

Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip) — photographer

 

Break Music: Little Earthlings (song) The Jir Project Band (artist) Sun Child (album)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 – Keeping Native Legacies Strong Through the Arts 

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Over the centuries, Native American art has developed into many different forms such as beadwork, weaving and pottery. Native American art can also pass down a family’s legacy from one generation to the next. A person’s art can include designs from an individual’s creativity but it can also include someone’s traditions. Do you call on art to keep your family’s legacy alive? How are you keeping your family’s legacy strong through art? Can Native art keep our traditions safe? Join us as we delve into the creative world of Native artists and their legacies.

Guests: 

Elizabeth “Betts” Doxtator (Mohawk) — corn husk artist and owners of Everything Cornhusk Gallery

Florence Riggs (Navajo) — 55th Annual 2013 Guild Indian Fair & Market’s Signature Artist, master pictorial weaver

David Gaussoin (Picuris and Navajo) —  taught at IAIA and the Poeh Arts Program in Pojoaque

Break Music: We’re Going Home (song) Clark Tenakhongva (artist) Hear My Song, Hear My Prayer – Songs from the Hopi Mesas (album)

Monday Aug 31, 2015 – Museum Round Up

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Many Native museums are gearing up for new exhibits this fall.  From re-imaging the apocalypse to looking at the artistic element of American Indians in sports, museums are working hard to curate displays that intrigue and educate the public on tribal nations. What are you favorite museums? Are you excited about an upcoming exhibit?

 

Guests:

Candice Hopkins (Tlingit) – chief curator, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA)

Nikki Meyers – executive director, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

Deb Krol (Xolon Salinan) – senior communications manager at the Heard Museum

Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo) – curator at the Museum of the American Indian

Break Music: Rebel (song) Digging Roots (artist) Seeds (album)

Friday, July 24, 2015 – Native in the Spotlight: Virgil Ortiz

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Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) is known for his unique style of art. This Native artist uses as many art mediums as he can, from pottery to film, to articulate Native life and our connection to the past and future. This month we catch up with Ortiz to learn more about his latest projects and why he has turned to the art world to educate the world about the strength of our Native nations. We hope you can join us for our July Native in the Spotlight edition with Virgil Ortiz.

Follow this conversation with our hashtag: #MadeInNativeAmerica

 

Break Music: Totah (song) The Delbert Anderson Trio (artist) MANITOU (album)

Friday, June 12, 2015 – Bird Songs

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Bird singing and dancing is a long-standing tradition practiced by tribes in southern California and Arizona. These social songs are sung with rattles and share life lessons and traditional stories about migration. How has bird singing changed or evolved through the years? What lessons can be learned from bird songs? What are elders doing to continue the tradition of bird singing in their communities?

Guests:

Michael Mirelez (Desert Cahuilla) – bird singer

Junior Cuero (Campo Kumeyaay) – bird singer

Sienna Thomas (Maricopa/ Northern Cheyenne) – bird dancer, artist, and writer

Friday, June 5, 2015 – Superheroes in Comics

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We could all use some superheroes in our lives. Who are your favorite superheroes? What special powers do they have? Would you like to be able to fly? Or what about being able to reverse climate change?  The Heard Museum has a new exhibit that looks at Native American superheroes in comics. Join us as we discuss what’s new in Native American comics and the superheroes that fill their pages.

Guests:

Arigon Starr (Kickapoo/Muscogee Creek/Cherokee/Seneca) – actor, writer, musician and creator of Super Indian.

Jay Odjick (Kitigan Zibi Anishinabe) – creator of Kagagi

Jaclyn Roessel (Navajo) – education and public programs director at the Heard Museum.

Exhibit mentioned in the show: Super Heroes: Art! Action! Adventure!

 

Monday, March 30, 2015 – **Pre-recorded** Indigenous Reggae Rhythms (Part I): Hawaii & New Zealand

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Today we start a journey through the sounds of Indigenous reggae that’s pumped out of Studio 49 over the past 20 years of our show. This hour, we do a little island-hopping to put the spotlight on Indigenous reggae from Hawaii, New Zealand and other locations. If your ears perk up when you hear the sweet sounds of Indigenous island style of reggae, we have a treat for you on this pre-recorded edition of Native America Calling.

Break Music:  Under The Mango Tree (song) B.E.T. (artist) Big Every Time (album)

Monday, March 30, 2015 – **Pre-recorded** Indigenous Reggae Rhythms (Part I): Hawaii & New Zealand

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Today we start a journey through the sounds of Indigenous reggae that’s pumped out of Studio 49 over the past 20 years of our show. This hour, we do a little island-hopping to put the spotlight on Indigenous reggae from Hawaii, New Zealand and other locations. If your ears perk up when you hear the sweet sounds of Indigenous island style of reggae, we have a treat for you on this pre-recorded edition of Native America Calling.

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015 – Native American Art Greats

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Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh are influential in our understanding of art and history. What about Native artists and their mark on the world? Who are the Native American artists that deserve the same type of recognition? Which of our Native forefathers should be known by those who care about art history? Is there a Native artist that you think everyone should study?

Guests:

Stephen Fadden, interim distance education director and art history instructor at the Institute of American Indian Art

Christina E. Burke, curator of Native American and non-Western art at the Philbrook Museum of Art

Bob Montoya (Sandia Pueblo) –  Artist and son of Geronima Cruz Montoya

Inge Maresh (Yankton Sioux) – daughter of Oscar Howe

Bob Haozous (Chiricahua Apache) – Artist and son of Allen Houser

 Break Music: Equinox (song) Samantha Crain (artist) You (Understood) (album)

 

 

 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 – Native in the Spotlight: James Luna

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Today we open our electronic talking circle to Luiseño performance and installation artist James Luna. Over the years, his work has challenged many stereotypes connected to our Native nations to bring about more understanding of their negative effects. Often through irony and satire, Luna’s art opens a dialogue into the many issues affecting Native America including identity and blood quantum. We invite you to join us as we visit with this veteran Native artist.

Break Music: Everything’s Gonna Be All Right (song) Twice As Good (artist) That’s All I Need (album)

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