MINNESOTA NATIVE ARTISTS showcases the unique and accomplished bodies of work of seven outstanding contemporary Native artists whose varied careers reveal the challenges, evolution, and impact of their work.

This wholly new study addresses the ways in which these and other American Native artists have emerged from a native world--where there is no word for the artist--and are now creating native art in art worlds where on 'is' (or isn't) an artists, where art markets and funders, rather than one's community, determine the value of their work. It speaks to the under-appreciation of contemporary Minnesota Native art despite such outstanding precursors as George Morrison and Patrick Desjarlait.