Making history : the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts : Institute of American Indian Arts / edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo ; foreword by Robert Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Robert Martin -- Introduction. American Indian Curatorial Practice: State of the Field / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Introduction to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection and the IAIA Archives / Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer and Ryan S. Flahive -- Indian with a Watch / Poem by Alex Jacobs -- The Gaze in Indigenous Art: Depictions of the Body and Nudity / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Mapping Indigenous Space and Place / John Paul Rangel -- Presentations and Representations: Images of Dances from the Southwest and West / Suzanne Newman Fricke -- Transforming Art History in the Classroom / Laura M. Evans -- "No Rules Make Art": The Work of C. Maxx Stevens / Patsy Phillips -- Historical Essays: About Professor Charles Dailey / Jessie Ryker-Crawford, Major Influences in the Development of Twentieth-Century Native American Art / Charles A. Dailey, Cultural Self-Determination: A Conversation with David Warren / Nancy Marie Mithlo and David Warren, Teaching from Three Knowledge Spaces: The Native Eyes Project / David Wade Chambers -- Illumination / Poem by Elizabeth Woody -- Contributors -- Index.

"Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indian studies. Written by scholars actively producing Native art resources, this book guides readers-students, educators, collectors, and the public-in how to learn about Indigenous cultures as visualized in our creative endeavors. By highlighting the rich resources and history of the Institute of American Indian Arts, the only tribal college in the nation devoted to the arts whose collections reflect the full tribal diversity of Turtle Island, these essays present a best-practices approach to understanding Indigenous art from a Native-centric point of view. Topics include biography, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, coding, arts critique, curation, and writing about Indigenous art. Featuring two original poems, ten essays authored by senior scholars in the field of Indigenous art, nearly two hundred works of art, and twenty-four archival photographs from the IAIA's nearly sixty-year history, Making History offers an opportunity to engage the contemporary Native Arts movement"-- Provided by publisher.