Artist and Curator Dakota Mace has invited Native artists to participate in the Native Art Markets Fall 2023 at Arts + Literature Laboratory. The market will take place Saturday October 7 and Sunday, October 8, 2023, 10am to 5pm both days.
Over 20 Native artists will share and sell their work in the galleries and host different artist workshops in the education studio. Work will span a wide range of traditional and contemporary art forms including Indigenous beadwork, quillwork, weaving, leather work, metals, and clothing.
Artists to include: Monty Little, Eliza Skenandore, Crystal Wabnum, Xavier Horkman, Laura Manthe, Rebecca Comfort, Liandra Skenandore. More artists to be announced.
Since Spring 2023, the Market has been organized by Dakota Mace, an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs, who works in one of the Arts + Literature Laboratory artist studios.
The Native Art Market is made possible with support from the Indigenous EcoWell Initiative in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission; National Endowment for the Arts; and Isthmus.