Institute of American Indian Arts

The article “Racism American Style and Resistance to Change: Art Education’s Role in the Indian Mascot Issue” by Elizabeth M. De La Cruz provides us a public controversy towards Indian Mascots being used by many schools, businesses, and even in high school football fields as racist towards our Native Americans. It’s racial discrimination effects on Native Americans especially, young Native Americans has caused the young to be afraid of showing who they really are as a minority or cultural being.…

of collegiate sports are on a different level than professional organizations. In professional sports, this situation is where it has hit its all time high. For decades professional sports organizations like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians have been faced with a tremendous amount of trademark controversy over their name or logo. There are many more professional teams facing this adversity but these two have been dealing with the USPTO for years to try to patent their trademark.…

New PFAC exhibit shows history and culture of black The Peninsula Fine Arts Center has a new exhibit, which shows one of the most unpleasant chapters in Peninsula’s history. The exhibit contains a collection of paintings, photographs and other art pieces that determine people to think about that chapter in history. The exhibition, called “Looking Both Ways”, presents the art of contemporary African-American artists and it offers an exploration of the turbulent culture and history that formed…

Over the last few decades, Non- governmental organizations (NGOs) have become one of the most important factors of international development. However, the term NGO is still vague and unconventional concept for majority of people. NGOs are organizations that are independent from government and usually run by donations and voluntary service. Variety groups such as corporate-funded think tanks, community groups, grassroot activist groups, development and research organizations and advocacy groups…

his contributions to American society throughout the first half of the twentieth century were eye opening. During an era of revolutions in both politics and technology, Rivera was one of the many who was inspired to create work that was socially extreme at the time. His views of Communism, his view on Capitalism, and his representation of the industrial revolution around the world caught the attention and eyes of nations. His controversial art helped open the minds of Americans to be more…

America globally is referred to as the land of opportunities, dreams, religious freedoms and the home of the free. The belief is that any person can achieve the ‘American Dream’ as long as the person works smart, gets educated and follows our laws. While this sounds appealing, it may not be the case that every immigrant has the chance at the American dream simply due to their race, nationality,…

Mark Bradford is very humorous and funny, almost comedian-like. Bradford takes posters from the ghetto, décollage & collages them, then sands them down. Some examples of posters he picks say, "Immigration in papers in thirty days" and "Indian Hair Weave". He uses repetition. In one of his projects he uses "perm end papers" because he used to work in his mother's hair salon and uses "musical fragments". In another map-like project he made up stories using his imagination about who lived at an…

BA degree in biology in 1909. Following graduation, Moore studied typing at Carlisle Commercial College. And from 1911 to 1915 she was employed as a school teacher at the Carlisle Indian school. (“Poets.org”). Moore had many careers throughout her life. Her mother and her moved to New york City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a…

foundation of The United States was started by the Native Americans and was later fortified by the numerous immigrants who kick started the prosperity of the United States. There is no one race that defines the people of the United States, it is an eclectic combination of many different ethnicities. This definition of the United States and its many races is abundantly obvious is Missouri. Missouri is an eclectic group of races including Native Americans, Europeans, and even some southerners. The…

Revisiting Cultural Tourism Prospects of Kuchipudi Classical Dance and Kalamkari Fabric Art Work of Krishna District Contribution of Tourism in Indian Economy: The World Tourism Organisation defines tourists as people who “travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercises of an activity remunerated from within the place visited”. Tourism can be understood as a travel for…