The Heard's collection consists of more than 40,000 objects, concentrating on Native peoples. Comprehensive cultural collections from the Greater Southwest and contemporary North American native fine art. Key collections include Hopi katsina dolls; Navajo and Zuni jewelry, Navajo textiles, Southwestern ceramics from prehistory to the present and baskets from the Southwest, California, the Great Basin and the Northwest.
4,000 works document the American Indian Fine Art Movement from the 20th century to the present.
Exhibitions & Dates
Awa Tsireh: Pueblo Painter and Metalsmith
Nov 3 2017 - Jan 6 2019
Painting and metalwork career of an early 20th century San Ildefonso artist
Dear Listener: Works by Nicholas Galanin
May 4 2018 - Sep 3 2018
Mid-career retrospective of this contemporary Native Alaskan artist
Ndn Now
Sep 6 2019 -
Works by emerging and mid-career artists illuminate aspects of contemporary Indigenous culture
Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit
Oct 29 2018 - Jan 31 2019
Artworks and objects examine the connection between the Great Master and the Inuit people
Sonwai: The Jewelry of Verma Nequatewa
Oct 6 2018 - Mar 10 2019
Works from one of the leading Native American lapidary artists
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience
- Oct 29 2018
Celebrating the spirit of survival through images, music, oral histories, memorabilia and video
