HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Cover Story

These Native American Artists Are Reinventing the Form

Two NMAI curators talk to Humanities magazine

Angelica Aboulhosn

HUMANITIES, Summer 2024, Volume 45, Number 3

Bell Bird dress by Jontay Kahm

Jontay Kahm’s Bell Bird gown, 2022, is a reminder that Native American art is alive, ever fluid, and poised to dazzle.

―Jontay Kahm (Plains Cree), Bell Bird, 2022. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by NMAI Photo Services

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Ursala Hudson

Ursala Hudson is one of many Native artists drawing upon their cultural heritage to create vibrant, contemporary work.

—Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), We Are the Ocean, 2021. National Museum of the American Indian. Photographed by Kahlil Hudson.

Summer 2024

Volume 45, Issue 3

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