
Category: Side-by-Side Artist Programs
Each year, the Coe invites well-known Indigenous artists to visit and interact with the Coe Collection and engage with the public through various programs, exhibitions, projects, and events.


2016 Slip-Cast Seed Bombs with Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, Norwegian)
September 24 and 25, 2016 Cannupa Hanska’s “Slip-Cast Seed Bombs” introduced participants to clay as a medium for social activism as he guided them through the technical process of creating slip cast objects. Seed Bombs, a form of guerrilla gardening...
2016 Kelly Church’s Black Ash Basket Make and Take Workshop
March 19 and April 9, 2016 Kelly Church (Gun Lake Band in Michigan, and a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe descendant) is an award-winning black ash basket weaver, Woodlands style painter, birch bark biter, and educator. For her “Black Ash Basket Make...2015 Royce and Debbie Manuel Demonstration and Conversation
March 15, 2016 The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts and the Institute of American Indian Arts were pleased to present a public conversation and demonstration by IAIA artists-in-residence Royce Manuel (Ak-Mierl Aw-Thum, Salt River Pima- Maricopa Indian Community) and...