April 5 – May 11, 2025
Maakon/Yowa: Grounded in Coast Miwok
Guest Curator Meyo Maruffo highlights contemporary California Indian culture with a vibrant group exhibition of paintings, drawings, block printing, basketry, regalia, clamshell beads, and one giant paper mâché pine nut. Here, Maruffo brings together legacy artists and emerging talents from Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo communities including Stewart’s Point, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, and Cloverdale Rancheria. An Eastern Pomo from Clear Lake basin, she works in conscious and direct ways to bring awareness to the fields and flavors of the California Indian Arts Movement.
The show honors thirteen artists’ deep, foundational relationships to land— to homeland—as expressed in stories and art. Maruffo has curated exhibits for The State Indian Museum and Mendocino Art Center and she is involved in the current creation of the DeYoung’s new Native American Galleries.
She writes, We are all responsible for the caretaking of this land. The more the indigenous voice comes through, the more the connections can happen.
Maakon/Yowa exhibiting artists: Gloria Armstrong, Joseph Byron, Henry Frank, Silver Galleto, Nicole Jones, Robin Meely, Michelle Napoli, Nancy Napolitan, Jacquelyn Ann Ross, Yana Ross, Kathleen R. Smith, Charlena Valencia, Eric Wilder
