Centering Indigenous Women in Art History


“Pomo Tray Basket,” by Jenny Jackson, late 19th/early 20th century, collection of the Grace Hudson Museum. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Grace Hudson Museum.

Four HAHS member sites are featured in a new National Trust for Historic Preservation story exploring how Indigenous women artists have shaped American art history, often against significant cultural and institutional odds. From Lois Smoky’s reclaimed place among the Kiowa Six at the Jacobson House Native Art Center in Oklahoma, to the multigenerational legacy of Shona-Hah at the Lelooska Foundation and Cultural Center in Washington, to the celebrated Pomo basket weavers documented at the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House in California, to the Tewa perspective brought into Georgia O’Keeffe’s world at her Abiquiú Home and Studio in New Mexico, these sites are doing the vital work of expanding whose stories get told.