MAM is pleased to announce a major loan of artworks from its Contemporary American Indian Art Collection to an exhibition organized and hosted by the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, WA. Tradition and Change: A Survey of Contemporary American Indian Art celebrates the extraordinary depth and diversity of Native art being made in the West today.  The exhibition provides a wonderful opportunity to explore the ways in which the depth and resonance of traditional and contemporary American Indian visual culture informs and contributes to American Indian identity in contemporary American society.  

Featuring works by some of the most highly celebrated American Indian artists working today -- Truman Lowe, Emmi Whitehorse, Edgar Heap of Birds, Kevin Red Star, George Flett, Preston Singletary, Marie Watt, James Lavadour, and others -- as well as works by a number of the important first generation Modernist Native American artists -- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, R.C. Gorman, T.C. Cannon, Harry Fonseca, and others -- radition and Change offers viewers a chance to experience how the rich history and traditions in American Indian art contribute to a diverse, complex, and culturally rich American society.