Indigenous Arts Review
ADVANCING THE DIALOGUE E-ZINE
E-Zine Mission Statement
Indigenous Arts Review is a quarterly online indigenous arts portal that takes its cue from the annual Santa Fe Indian Market to convene people in a virtual gathering space where a range of ideas on Native art can be exchanged. Like Indian Market, the Arts Review will be both raw and refined, traditional and cutting-edge, safe and exploratory, and, most importantly, alive in its continual incorporation of new voices, ideas and debates. In using Indian Market as its conceptual road map, Indigenous Arts Review will foreground SWAIA as the host for these conversations, providing for institutional transparency and collaboration "beyond the booth.
As a multi-faceted education vehicle, it will publish timely features on the relationship between arts and indigenous culture, history, society and politics, and will also develop other avenues for dialogue, including reviews of exhibitions, curatorial publications and scholarly works; news feeds; blogs and online discussion forums; virtual critiques; links to arts resources; directories of artists, studios, museums and galleries; and calendars of events. Through this collective approach, Indigenous Arts Review seeks to develop a critical framework for indigenous arts by building on Indian Market's historic importance to the indigenous arts community.
In the spirit of its collaborative approach, Indigenous Arts Review will depend on a variety of solicited contributions from indigenous arts critics, artists, students, scholars and professionals. As an effort that also values public conversation, the editorial board will also encourage unsolicited submissions for blogs, comment threads, critiques and news stories from other interested contributors.
The publication of the Indigenous Arts Review is funded in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation. It is intended to serve as a vehicle for disseminating grant results and using grant-sponsored activities to catalyze a fresh and inclusive approach to critical dialogue about indigenous arts.