(THE CONVERSATION) As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past ...

Celebrate ten years of the festival with ten days of free programming Kirby Ewald For ten years, the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices Initiative has supported an event like no other: the Mother Tongue ...

Ms. Smith was among the country’s most renowned Native artists, crafting pieces that incorporated Indigenous images and ...

(October 18, 2025, through August 30, 2026) “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American ... of the National Museum of the American Indian, where he served as curator ...

The Art of Judith Lowry” and “The Lowry & Croul Collection of Contemporary Native American Art” are two groundbreaking ...

A flurry of executive orders U.S. president Donald Trump signed since returning to the White House is shaking up the arts.

Native arts and crafts are widely collected today, and there are contemporary practitioners who have developed their own ...

Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe inside the Smithsonian’s American Indian Museum has one of the absolute best dishes you’ll find in DC.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a prolific visual artist and curator based in Corrales and the first artist to curate an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., died Jan. 24 after a ...

She began drawing large-scale outlines of horses, canoes, men’s vests and buffalo, as in “Indian Drawing Lesson (After ...

Happy Valentine’s week, DC! Share the love with your boo or your besties this week at a Valentine’s dinner or show. There’s also the return of fun annual events such as Alexandria’s George Washington ...