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
Josef Albers in Mexico
Feb 1 2019 - May 27 2019
32 years of photos and photo collages create context for Albers' paintings
Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit
Oct 29 2018 - Feb 3 2019
Artworks and objects examine the connection between the Great Master and the Inuit people
Ndn Now
Sep 6 2019 -
Works by emerging and mid-career artists illuminate aspects of contemporary Indigenous culture
Sonwai: The Jewelry of Verma Nequatewa
Oct 6 2018 - Mar 10 2019
Works from one of the leading Native American lapidary artists
A Land North - Works from the Heard Museum Collection
- Feb 3 2019
100+ years of Alaskan and Canadian First Nations art celebrate the complexities of these cultures