Santa Fe's Museum of Indian Arts & Culture is hosting an exhibit titled, "Comic Art Indigène," from May 11 through January 9 of next year. Here is an excerpt from a rationale found on the museum's site:
As an art form, comics are poorly understood, underanalyzed, and under-utilized. Created to be disposable yet widely read, comics are often dismissed as primitive and juvenile. Nevertheless, a generation of Native artists has embraced comics as an expressive medium. It is only natural that this marginal art appeals to oftmarginalized indigenous people, for both have been regarded as a primitive and malignant presence on the American landscape.
Like American Indian cultures, comic art is amazingly complex and adaptive. As the first widely-accessible mass media, comics were consumed by Indian people as a recognizable form of storytelling; expressing cultural stories through pictures.
Click here to learn more about the exhibit.
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