Events
Native Youth Arts Education
Launching this fall, free classes for Native youth in Boulder Valley across traditional Native arts. More information on timing, programming and how to sign up coming soon!
Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers - Dance Workshop
Join us for a free workshop with the Indigenous dance group Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers to learn how traditional dance is created and performed. This workshop is open to the general public (not exclusively Native folks!) to come learn about this important tradition.
Drifting Bull Drum Group - Drum Workshop
Join us for a free workshop with Indigenous drum group Drifting Bull to learn how traditional drumming is created and performed. This workshop is open to the general public (not exclusively Native folks!) to come learn about this important tradition.
2024 Native Art Market
Join us for the fourth annual Art Market at The Dairy Arts Center!
Native artisans will be selling their work all the weekend, with performances by Native dancers and musicians throughout.
Thirteen Moons In The Land Of Sky And WInd
The Lakhota people have many names for the months of the year. The names of the moons are drawn from the resources available to them or are descriptions of natural events. This series of watercolors interprets the meaning of each moon, short narratives of the moon, and the moon's enduring love for the sun and world.
Pink Man or The Only Indian in the Room
“I’ve been stuck in the middle my entire life. I’m afraid to be red. But, I’m not just white, either. I guess I’m...pink. Pink man.” Pink Man: or The Only Indian in the Room follows a young Ojibwe in a semi-autobiographical, semi-realistic journey of self-discovery as he battles tradition, stereotypes, and himself.
Embers Borne West
Embers Borne West is a time-shifting tale about intergenerational resilience and identity, as two very different generations of a Cherokee family move to Los Angeles, in 1927 and in the present day.
Voices of Change: First Storytellers – An Evening with Native American Playwrights
Boulder’s all-Indigenous led artists collective Creative Nations joins us for an evening featuring playwrights from their First Storytellers Festival. Excerpts will be performed live by Indigenous actors followed by a conversation about the challenges of telling Native stories. Co-presented with the Longmont Multicultural Action Committee.
Savage
Savage is a musical drama based on the life of Chickasaw sharpshooter and silent film actress, the unconquerable Wanda Savage.
The Counting of the Heads & New Year’s Purun
The Counting of the Heads is an Osage romance. Will and Annie love one another, but is that enough to keep an Osage man and a white woman together in Oklahoma in 1906?
“Come on, just one dance!” 16-year old Taiel just needs one successful Purun dance in order to fulfill his duty of becoming a Mapuche tribe healer... and finally get the homophobic bullies at school off his back.
Homelands: Reconnection
The "Homelands" art show is a profound tribute to the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes, honoring their connection to their ancestral lands that now make up Boulder, Colorado. Launched in 2021 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the show brings a long-overdue recognition and celebration of the Indigenous peoples whose presence shaped this region long before its current identity.
Weaving Prayers: Ocean's Edge to Mesa's Ledge
A journey of culture, prayers and hope for my people back home on the Navajo Reservation. I am of two Water Clans: Bitterwater and Zuni-Edgewater. Water is one of the four sacred elements and is essential for all living beings on earth.
Stone and Wood Sculptures
Bryan Valdez Redmoon started his art at the age of 9 years old with oil paintings. In 1983 Bryan apprenticed under renowned native American artists Robert and Bennet Morninggun for 4 years carving stone. Bryan’s reputation for exemplary pieces has proceeded him and the unique nature of his work has drawn an immense amount of business. Bryan has won many awards, on of his stone pieces “The Merrill Lynch Bull” is displayed inside the New York Stock exchange. Bryan started 13 years ago sculpting trees all over the state of Colorado, with his unique style. Bryan Redmoon owns Redmoon Art Studio in Erie Colorado.