As The American Indian Art Show ramps up for its 34th annual presentation at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, February 17th and 18th, 2018, the ancient and revered Native American aesthetics, in both their traditional and contemporary forms, have become celebrated elements in both home décor and fashion design.
The 2018 Show, will have on offer some of the best examples of textiles, pottery, jewelry, basketry, paintings and historic Native objects as well as Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial works. Shown by the more than a hundred exhibitors, the show’s treasures portray not just the deep traditional and historic design elements as used in functional and ceremonial art, but how they are incorporated into the best of today’s fashion and decor.
The distinctive artistry of Alaskan and the Northwest coast people will also be for sale including ancient wood and stone carvings, weavings and paintings as week as contemporary glass and pottery works, fabrics and jewelry. The often more subtle colors, beadwork and lighter basketry and decorated hides of the plains Peoples capture stories of the nomadic life, and re-emerge in the works found at the show by today’s Native sculptors, painters, and weavers. Echoes of old California, before the arrival of Europeans, is mostly apparent in the intricate basketry always a major element of the Show.
From the Navajo Nation to the Great Plains to the Eastern Woodlands and Northwest Coast, the show’s selection of indigenous artworks on offer will be spectacular and include:
• Hopi and Zuni Katsinas
• Plains and Prairie beadwork
• Woodlands beadwork and artifacts
• Northwest Coast Chilkat blankets, masks, bowls, and paddles
• Pomo, Apache, and Tlingit baskets
• Navajo textiles and jewelry
• Acoma, San Ildefonso and other Pueblo Indian pottery
• And much more
The American Indian Art Show at the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael will open Saturday, February 17th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am with a $35 per person benefit preview for MarinLink. The show will then be open to the public from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday and 11:00 am to 4:00 Sunday, February 18th. General admission is $18 per person, with tickets available at the door. Special discounts are available by visiting the show website, http://marinshow.com/discountcoupon4.html.
For the second year, The American Indian Art Show|Marin is being held on consecutive weekends with the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show, bringing together two historic shows to create the major West Coast event of the year for American Indian and Tribal art: The San Francisco Tribal Art Week.
