Museum for the history, art, and stories of the American West. The Autry is a museum dedicated to bringing together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future.
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The museum presents a wide range of exhibitions and public programs, including lectures, film, theater, festivals, family events, and music, and performs scholarship, research, and educational outreach.
Operating as usual
Enjoy this piece by Chris Pierce, then head over to the Autry Salon Series page to hear more of Pierce’s music and a fascinating conversation between him and David Cartwright, Chair of the Autry Board of Trustees. https://theautry.org/PastArtistsSalons
Looking for gifts for loved ones (or be honest, yourself)? Check out the Autry Store. The Autry Store carries a vast array of unique items—from books to music to fine art—including a large selection of Native American jewelry, pottery, and baskets. https://shop.theautry.org/
Explores the work of women as told through photographs, letters, and diaries in What's Her Story: Women in the Archives. This online exhibition reveals compelling events in the lives of 20th- and 21st-century women and highlights how they document their activities in their own voices, preserving a legacy and the archivists’ work that makes these stories discoverable. #ArchivingWomen https://theautry.org/exhibitions/whats-her-story-women-in-the-archives
New Video Tutorial: Crocheting the Collection
This new series teaches the relaxing and creative craft of crochet using the Autry's collection as inspiration. Instructor Julie Kadoi takes you through the steps to make a range of projects. In this first lesson, appropriate for all levels, learn to make striped dishcloths. bit.ly/37Q47HM
Using the Autry’s collection as inspiration, this series of video tutorials teaches the relaxing and creative craft of crochet. Julie Kadoi takes you through the steps to make a range of…
Now through December 15, receive 10% off ALL purchases at the Autry Store by using the case sensitive offer code: GIFT TIME. Pick up unique pieces like this Jemez Pueblo Storyteller Santa, clothes, books, art, and more! https://bit.ly/3oo6po9
Presenting iconic wilderness advocate John Muir as a starting point, this video conversation explores issues of access to public lands and the dispossession of Native people. Featuring Leah Mata-Fragua (Northern Chumash); Ron Goode (North Fork Mono); Sandy Hernandez, Latino Outdoors; and Char Miller, Pomona College.
It’s Complicated is a series of conversations that bring together a variety of voices to discuss the legacies of historical people, places, and events. These histories may be confusing, difficult,…
Now Online!: What’s Her Story: Women in the Archives explores the work of women as told through photographs, letters, and diaries. This exhibition reveals compelling events in the lives of 20th- and 21st-century women and highlights how they document their activities in their own voices—preserving a legacy and the archivists’ work that makes these stories discoverable. #ArchivingWomen
The exhibition was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
At the heart of every story is an archive, and at the heart of every archive is a story. In honor of the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, What’s Her Story: Women in the…
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Warm autumn greetings from the Autry Museum family to yours.
🖼: Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu/Native Hawaiian/Portuguese, 1946–2006), Autumn Sonata #31A . Autry Museum; 2016.10.209
This Thursday on Zoom: Join author Jeffrey Ostler, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry for a discussion on Ostler's book Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas.
Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m. - Join us for a conversation between author Jeffrey Ostler, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), artistic director of Native…
Among the best-known art forms of California Indians are baskets. These include the elegant woven caps, sometimes adorned with feathers and dentalium shells, worn in Northwestern California’s Klamath River watershed ceremonies. In this work, Linda Aguilar (Chumash) has reinvented basket weaving for a contemporary context. Her sculptural basket references the forms of ceremonial basket caps, but also includes nontraditional adornments—such as bingo markers—that remind us of more recent community traditions. Aguilar’s materials also include cut-up pieces of a credit card with a visible VISA logo and 3-digit security code. By referencing today’s commercial banking and credit markets, the artist contrasts contemporary notions of material wealth with the ceremonial and spiritual wealth of the Ancestors.
Visit theautry.org/WIRISR to see this piece and more works from California Native artists as part of When I Remember I See Red.
Basket was donated by Monica Jane Wyatt to the Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, 2013.27.1
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
This Thursday, join the Autry's DeLanna Studi (Cherokee) and author Jeffrey Ostler, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon, for a discussion of Ostler's book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. The book documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.
Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m. - Join us for a conversation between author Jeffrey Ostler, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and DeLanna Studi (Cherokee), artistic director of Native…
Watch “The American Indian Arts Marketplace: Honoring 30 Years” | Enjoy this first cut of our short documentary on the American Indian Arts Marketplace. Featured as part of our virtual #AutryMarketplace 2020
Enjoy this first cut of our short documentary on the American Indian Arts Marketplace. Featured as part of our virtual Marketplace 2020 at TheAutry.org/Marketplace.…
Our short documentary on #AutryMarketplace is now streaming! Revisit some familiar places and faces along with all the other virtual happenings at TheAutry.org/Marketplace!
Enjoy this first cut of our short documentary on the American Indian Arts Marketplace. Featured as part of our virtual Marketplace 2020 at TheAutry.org/Marketplace.…
It's the last day to see Native Voices at the Autry's 10th Annual Short Play Festival. See Native playwrights explore the subject of dress codes during this live reading. More info: TheAutry.org/NativeVoices
11/14 & 15 @ 1:30 pm pst: Native Voices at the Autry is going live on Zoom to present readings by Native playwrights. See them tackle the subject of dress codes and how they affect Indigenous people. More info: TheAutry.org/NativeVoices
Autry Marketplace Live! is happening today from 11 am-3 pm pst. Interact, and connect with Native artists virtually during this one-day-only event. You can also purchase artwork, like the pieces here, online. TheAutry.org/Marketplace
This weekend spend time at the Autry's Virtual American Indian Arts Marketplace.
Saturday | 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. PST
Interact and buy work from Native artist during Marketplace Live!
Saturday & Sunday | 1:30 p.m. PST
See live readings from Native playwrights that explore the theme of dress codes.
Sunday, November 15
See a premiere of a short documentary on American Indian Arts Marketplace
Visit theautry.org/marketplace to learn more!
Stay tuned to this page as it transforms into the digital hub for our annual weekend celebration of Native art and culture! Countdown to American Indian Arts Marketplace You will be able to…
This weekend: Celebrate contemporary and traditional Native art forms at the Autry’s thirtieth annual—and first virtual—American Indian Arts Marketplace. Purchase one-of-a-kind artwork, jewelry, and fashion, and view films, talks, and a live virtual Short Play Festival from Native Voices, the Autry’s resident theatre company. Experience it all for free, right here, on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15. Check out our website for more info: https://theautry.org/events/signature-programs/american-indian-arts-marketplace
Stay tuned to this page as it transforms into the digital hub for our annual weekend celebration of Native art and culture! Countdown to American Indian Arts Marketplace You will be able to…
Join Native Voices at the Autry for the 10th anniversary Short Play Festival live and virtual! This year Native playwrights explore how dress codes affect them. Sign up for this free online event today! http://TheAutry.org/NativeVocies #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
The Autry museum, store, and café will be temporarily closed to the public, beginning Saturday, March 14, until further notice.
Watch an introduction to When I Remember I See Red. The exhibition features Native California artists who have used their work as a means of cultural resistance and renewal. http://ow.ly/TTPt50C7wLR #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
An introduction to the exhibition
Tonight @ 6:30 pm: Join W. Richard West, Jr., the Autry's President and CEO, and Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Native American author and attorney, as they discuss Echo-Hawk's book, In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
What's next at Glendale Library, Arts & Culture? http://ow.ly/RDD450BTR8R
The Autry wants you...to participate in the Collecting Community History Initiative: Electoral Politics in the West, the Autry's effort to document and preserve this critical moment in political history. Learn more!
By Tyree Boyd-Pates, Associate Curator of Western History This April, the Autry launched our Collecting Community History Initiative (CCHI) to respond to the growing desire to collect the diverse…
Wishing all of you on the interweb a Happy Halloween.
Carl Eytel, TARANTULAS, drawing, 1900-1906.
Get into the Halloween spirit as Josh Garrett-Davis, Autry curator, and Brad Sykes, author of Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest, discuss the genre of Western horror and its use of the desert landscape. The page also includes 10 film suggestions from Sykes for your at-home Halloween scare-a-thon.
VIEW SERIES PAGE Autry curator Josh Garrett-Davis interviews Brad Sykes, author of Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest, about the genre of Western horror and its…
This Thursday, join us for a special 2020 election Autry Office Hours with the Autry's Tyree Boyd-Pates. He will introduce the new iteration of Collecting Community History Initiative, Electoral Politics in the West. Considering the historical moment and nature of this year's election, the Autry seeks your help to document, collect, catalog, and preserve this critical moment in political history within the American West. Join us and bring your questions!
Thursday, October 29, 2020, Noon - Drop-in during the Autry's Office Hours, a new series hosted on Instagram Live that allows viewers the opportunity to ask experts across the field the questions they've always pondered.
10/29: Join us for a conversation with the director of Gather: The Fight to Revitalize Our Native Foodways.
Thursday October 29, 2020, 7:00 p.m. - An intimate portrait of the growing movement among Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of…
Tuesday, 10/20 @ 6:30 p.m.: In this workshop series created by Raina J. León, learn from the visionary practices of guerrilla archivists and community organizers who preserve community histories for the benefit of future generations.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 6:30–8:00 p.m. - In this workshop series created by Raina J. León, we learn from the visionary practices of guerrilla archivists and community organizers who preserve community histories for the benefit of future…
For the first time, the logbook from the Alcatraz Occupation is presented digitally to the public! Considered one of the most important objects from the Red Power era, the logbook holds the names of the individuals present during the 19-month long protest when 89 American Indians and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. Browse through the book to see the names of people present during the and read as Joe D. Horse Capture (A’aninin), Autry Vice President of Native Collections and Ahmanson Curator of Native American History and Culture, reflects on the occupation.
By Joe D. Horse Capture, Vice President of Native Collections and Ahmanson Curator It's one of the most significant artifacts of the Red Power era. Kent Blansett Founder and Executive Director…
Join Ojibwe Bead artist Summer F. Peters (Saginaw Chippewa) and Joe Horse Capture, Vice President of Native Collections & the Ahmanson Curator of Native American History and Culture, as they discuss her work and participation in Indian Markets.
Select Saturdays, Noon - Artists’ Conversations is a series featuring experts, curators, artists, and community leaders on Zoom.
"My Ancestors sang these glorious baskets to life with their bone awls and abalone soaking dishes. I am not my Ancestors....with my metal tools and Starbucks coffee cooling on the table. But like them, I am part dreamer and part mathematician--and like them, I am weaving my stories into an object that can be held in your hands." Tima Lotah Link, Shmuwich Chumash Weaver (@timaoutside)
The museum has over 14,000 baskets in its collection representing Indigenous peoples in two hemispheres, here are three Chumash baskets.
California basketweavers have played a significant role in keeping their cultural practices alive and thriving. This historical basket was made in the late 1800s by Juana Apapas and depicts “the long grey path of light in the sky”- also known as the Milky Way galaxy.
“This basket represents how hard times were for our great-grandparents living here in Southern California during the late 1800s through the 1900s. They suffered and endured many extreme changes in their life ways. Juana saw this suffering and she wove that struggle into this basket.” -Lorene Sisquoc (Ft. Sill Apache/Mountain Cahuilla), basketweaver. #indigenouspeoplesday
New Exhibition! When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California
This powerful exhibition features Native California artists who have used their work as a means of cultural resistance and revival. Collectively, these artists practice a version of activism that combines elements of traditional and contemporary society to call out racial and social injustice and to heal communities through cultural renewal. Online for now, we look forward to sharing the in-person experience once we reopen.
Beginning with the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969, California became a beacon of creative freedom, individual expression, and social activism for Native peoples across the country. The region…
Happy Birthday to the Saguaro National Park 🥳🌵 Enjoy this vintage hand-colored lantern slide of saguaro cacti from the area before it was declared a National Park in 1994.
4700 Western Heritage Way - Griffith Park
Los Angeles, CA
90027
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Enjoy this piece by Chris Pierce, then head over to the Autry Salon Series page to hear more of Pierce’s music and a fascinating conversation between him and David Cartwright, Chair of the Autry Board of Trustees. https://theautry.org/PastArtistsSalons
Have questions you’ve always wanted to ask a museum curator? Well tomorrow is your day! Join our curators for #AskaCurator where they will answer all the things you have pondered. Drop them a comment here or tweet at them (@theautry).
The Autry’s new music series debuts today! Watch Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes perform an intimate acoustic set at the museum. TheAutry.org/bestofLA.
Hosted by @NativeCurator, the show takes objects from our collection and asks kids, "what is this?!" Watch their responses and try to guess before the big reveal.
What Is This Object? is back! @NativeCurator takes objects from the Autry's collections and asks kids what they think it could be. He is joined by Autry archaeologist Karimah Richardson for the big reveal. Test yourself and see if you can figure it out!
What Is This Object? is back! @NativeCurator takes objects from the Autry's collections and asks kids what they think it could be. He is joined by Autry archaeologist Karimah Richardson for the big reveal. Test yourself and see if you can figure it out!
Part "Kids Say the Darndest Things," part history lesson. We take objects from the Autry's Collections and ask kids to answer, "what is this?!" Hosted by the Autry’s Joe Horse Capture (@nativecurator) ft. curator Josh Garrett-Davis (@joshisawestern).
Can Josh spin three different film-festival laurels into tumbleweeds? Pour some Pinot, watch the video, and see if you agree.
Join chief conservator Richard Moll (on a quick break from his essential-staff-duty of ensuring the continued safety and preservation of the collection!) as he discusses one of his favorite parts about the saloon, the Edison Multiphone.
In the recent episode of Is This a Western? Curator Josh Garrett-Davis takes on The Mandalorian with the help of colleague Karina Richardson. Find out if this bounty hunter gets a bolo. @joshisawestern #maythe4thbewithyou #HATM
Get your tix for LYING WITH BADGERS—a new play featuring both people and puppets! At the Autry through 3/15.
THIS WEEKEND: American Indian Arts Marketplace is back! Enjoy art, food, performances, and more. #AutryMarket http://TheAutry.org/Marketplace
Join the #AutryCampaign to support the Autry’s efforts to challenge the past, discover the present, and celebrate the future with public programming and educational initiatives engaging multigenerational audiences. Visit TheAutry.org/Campaign to learn more!
We’re live with Conjunto Oye! Our Sizzling Summer Nights series continues Thursdays through August 22, here at the Autry in Griffith Park.
Autry After Hours is back Wednesday, June 19! Join local poets, DJs, and visual artists + see the museum’s latest exhibitions. Autry Members get in for free. $5 admission for non-members.
A (very) quick look at our new exhibition, Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley. Now on view!
Sneak peek of PURE NATIVE—a new stage comedy by Vickie Ramirez. Performances March 8-24! Tickets: TheAutry.org/NativeVoices
Getting the Autry stage ready for PURE NATIVE, a new comedy by Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora). Performances March 8-24! Tickets available at TheAutry.org/NativeVoices #NativeVoices
Opening day is tomorrow, 2/9! #AutryMasters TheAutry.org/Masters
Masters of the American West—the nation’s premier Western art show and sale. Opening day tickets now available. #AutryMasters TheAutry.org/Masters
THIS WEEKEND (Nov. 10-11): American Indian Arts Marketplace at the Autry in Griffith Park! Enjoy art, food, performances, and more. #AutryMarket http://TheAutry.org/Marketplace
KCET’s next episode of #Artbound examines the beauty and artistry of Native American basketry, and how California is leading the effort to revitalize the tradition. The Art of Basket Weaving was made in partnership with KCET, California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA), and the Autry. Catch the episode on KCET tonight, April 24, at 9:00 p.m.
Watch the debut of KCET's next #Artbound episode on La Raza, the bilingual newspaper/magazine that provided a voice to the Chicano Rights Movement in the late '60s and '70s. Features #AutryLARAZA co-curators Amy Scott and Luis C. Garza. Premieres tonight (4/3), 6:00 PM PT, on Link TV. http://bit.ly/2E2IuTW
The LA RAZA digital interactive, created by Narduli Studio, offers multilayered exploration and 3-D navigation through the 25,000 images available in the La Raza magazine archive. Offering four experiences, the interactive displays archive metadata connections as well as new connections made through user interaction. Fly through, explore the neural network, interact with the timeline or spectrum display, and enjoy never-before-available access to this archive documenting an important moment in Los Angeles history. #AutryLARAZA
Highly interactive and fun for all ages, "Play!" looks at the history and evolution of toys and games in the American West. Come play! #AutryPlay
Before you finalize your menu for #Thanksgiving, consider incorporating some native ingredients into your holiday dishes. Get the recipes: bit.ly/2dTpBaj #TendingtheWild #CAcontinued KCET
Ever wonder how you set up a tipi? Come see Rex “Wambli Sapa” Carolin's (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) completed tipi today during American Indian Arts Marketplace. #AutryMarket
Wildhorse Singers and Dancers perform a traditional chicken dance at #AutryMarket.
A preview of the Goedel family (Yakama/Tulalip) hoop dancing. Catch them in the museum at 2:00 p.m. #AutryMarket
The Autry joins museums and galleries across Southern California celebrating Latino/a art and culture with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Our LA RAZA exhibition is now on view. #AutryLARAZA #PSTLALA
Chloe's At Golden Road Brewing
5410 W San Fernando RdMt. Hollywood 12K 8K Trail Run
abandoned old zooGriffith Park Trail Marathon Relay
Griffith Park, LAGlenoaks Ballroom - L.A. Banquets
1320 West Glenoaks Blvd., GlendaleMiss Filipina International Pageant
655 N. Central Ave., Glendale
Heavy Metal Nights at Gold Diggers
5632 Santa Monica Blvd
SMC salon de eventos monte carlo
1200 W 8th St
80's Christmas Music Party at Blipsy"s Barcad
369 N Western Ave