A show dedicated to Beginnings in Ankara, Turkey.

The goal of exhibition is to share the history of the Spiro culture from its humble beginnings to its rise as one of the premier cultural sites in all of North America.

A nearly forgotten people who created one of the most highly-developed civilizations in the Americas. An archaeological find unmatched in modern times. How did these incredible works of art and other treasures from all over North America end up hidden for hundreds of years, and why?

Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World seeks to answer these questions and more in the first major museum exhibition on the Spiro Mounds of southeast Oklahoma. It reunites extraordinary objects which haven’t been together since the site was both looted and archeologically excavated in the 1930s and 40s.

Explore the religious and ceremonial activities, farming and hunting practices and daily life of the Spiro people. Learn how a “Little Ice Age” may have led to the site’s ultimate abandonment and what lessons may be learned as we face our own ecological changes today. The exhibition also showcases contemporary Indigenous art pieces that explore the ideas of origin and connect the art and artistry of the Spiro people to their modern descendants.

More than a decade in the making, this nearly 200-object exhibition with companion publication and educational programming were developed in collaboration with the Caddo Nation, the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, and scholars from over a dozen universities and museums from across the United States.

This show will travel from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage museum in Oklahoma City, OK to the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL to the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, TX.

The Jim and Joyce Faulkner Perming Arts Center at the Uni ersatz of Arkansas

Native American Christians are often accused of being assimilated or “colonized.” Yet it’s not that simple—especially for the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole people of the Southeastern United States who used to be labeled “civilized.”

The installations in Altars of Reconciliation express diverse, individual faith experiences of three Southeastern Native artists who practice Christianity. Each “altar” depicts ongoing personal reconciliation between the artist and God, with awareness of the complex history of Christianity among Southeastern tribes and the mystery of faith that transcends it.

—Contributing scholar Stacy Fife Pratt, PhD, Muscogee (Creek)

This show is a traveling exhibit. It began in Tulsa Oklahoma at AHHA, went to Norwich UK, the Seminole Nation Museum and Stillpoint Galleries in Atlanta, GA. More venues are being added.

VISUAL VOICES: Contemporary Chickasaw Art touring exhibition is moving and passionate, surprising in its modernity, but ancient at its core. Nearly sixty artworks of present-day Chickasaw painters, potters, sculptors, metalsmiths and weavers convey a beautiful and compelling contemporary visual story. From oil and watercolor to textiles and metals, glass, bronze and other materials, the artworks of fifteen featured Chickasaw artists in this exhibition are unique, intrinsically Southeastern and distinctive in design among today’s contemporary tribal artists. They are rising contemporary voices on an aesthetic landscape of twenty-first century American Indian art.

SPIVA Joplin, MO

Collaboration with 200+ school age kiddos!

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Museum of ART

http://www.currentstudio.org/erin-shaw/

Melton Gallery

The Goddard Center

August 2015- May 2018 Return from Exile, Lyndon House, Athens, GA / Museum of Southeast American Indian, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC / Sequoyah National Research Center, Little Rock, AR / Columbia State Community College, Columbia TN / John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR/ Cherokee Heritage Center, Talequah, OK / Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC / Collier County Museum, Naples, FL

March 6-April 19, 2015 Epic Stories: Forging meaning amidst memory, allegory and culture, AHHA, Tulsa, OK