I love our people, I love the process of connecting my heart, my designs, and my feelings into each piece I create, share, and connect. My research explores metalsmithing as a subject and object, engaging the field's history, methods, and outcomes while exploring...
As of 2016, the fragile Ralph T. Coe Center Collection ledger drawing book can be viewed online at Plains Ledger Art (PILA). Created in the 1880's, the ledger book features striking images of courting scenes, soldiers, and Cheyenne warriors - many who are identified...
The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe major exhibition of Native American Art, Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art was held from July 25, 2015–April 17, 2016. Ralph T. “Ted” Coe was a curator, museum director, connoisseur, and...
This year's Curatorial Conversations Series from the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts is in conjunction with the exhibition Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art at the Wheelwright Museum. The series includes a number of conversational...
Ralph T. Coe was a curator, museum director, connoisseur, and collector known to travel hours out of his way to discover a new Native artist or a good slice of pie. The exhibition was a collaboration with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe.The...
Woven Relations: Baskets from the Ralph T. Coe Center Collection exhibition, August 19 to December 19, 2014 and originally shown at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY as Plain & Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets in 2013, was broadened to include...
Plain & Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets Held August 10 - December 29, 2013 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NYMost Native American peoples weave baskets using various forms of grasses and shrubs, everything from sea grass, used by Eskimos and Aleuts, to...