February 14 - May 10, 2026
Momím Wené / Medicine Water: Flowing Throughout California Indian Country
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Closing Reception/ Artist Panel: April 25, 2026 5-8pm, Artist Panel 6-7pm
Grace Hudson Museum 431 S. Main Street, Ukiah, CA 95482
January 17, 2026-April 18, 2026
In the Meadow: Contemporary Central California Native Art & Design
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Lólmen Gallery, Shingle Springs Rancheria
January 2026
Calling Them Home: Brining Awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
(Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: Friday, January 2, 5:00pm-8:00pm
Art Center Ukiah/Corner Gallery: 201 S. State St., Ukiah, CA
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat from 11:00am-5:00pm,
11/20/25 - 2/8/26
Native Now: K’edi Wadim
(Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Mendocino College Gallery: 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah, CA
Gallery Hours: Tue-Thurs from 12:30 PM-3:30 PM, Wed 10:30 AM-1:30 PM. Visitors should check the website for limited hours during winter break or make an appointment by contacting gallery@mendocino.edu.
Mendocino College Gallery is honored to announce the opening of Native Now: K’edi Wadim (meaning “Walk Well” in Northern Pomo dialect), an exhibition featuring contemporary art by artists of Native American
descent living and working today. The show celebrates Indigenous creativity, heritage, and resilience through a diverse range of artistic expressions, from drawing, painting, and photography to regalia, beadwork, weaving, and basketry.
11/13/25 - 1/11/26
In The Meadow
Contemporary Central California Native Art + Design
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, January 11, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Switchboard Gallery: 525 Main Street, Placerville, CA (Open M-F 11-4pm)
In the Meadow is presented by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Exhibits and Collections Center in partnership with concept:art+movement, featuring curatorial debut of Community Curator
Shanti Parks.
Participants are regional culture bearers well known in local tribal communities for their dedication to their art forms, displaying a diverse range of techniques essential to the art of living, from native cordage, to pre and post contact tool manufacture, to the sartorial arts, offering the viewer an engaging introduction to California Native Aesthetics.
10/11/25 - 2/1/26
Walking In Our Mocs
Perspectives from Indigenous Artists
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: October 11, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Maidu Museum and Historic Site: 1970 Johnson Rancheria Drive. Roseville, CA
9/25/25 - 11/2/25
Momim Wéné | Medicine Water
Flowing Throughout California Indian Country
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: October 11, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Mendocino Art Center: 45200 Little Lake St, Mendocino, CA 95460
9/15/25-11/20/25
2025 California Native Creations Art Show
(Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: October 3, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Finely Community Center: 2060 West College Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
8/26/25 - 8/31/28
Reopening: Arts of Indigenous America Gallery
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: September 13, 9:30am-5:15pm
de Young Museum: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118
7/17/25 - 9/17/25
Through The Vale
Sacramento Area Artists Honor Their Indigenous Culture
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: July 16, 2025, 4:30 - 6:00pm
SMUD Customer Service Center Lobby: 6301 S Street (near 65th Street), Sacramento, CA
4/28/25 - 11/03/25
Pomo Weavers Society
Pursuing Our Path Of Preservation
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
July 19, 1 pm - 3 pm: Discussion Panel: Pomo Basketry Past, Present and Future as seen by Pomo basket makers and scholars today.
August 3 & 24, 12 pm - 3 pm: In-Gallery Basketweaving Demonstration
September 20, 11 am - 4 pm: Pomo Indian Art Fair - artists, refreshments, Dry Creek Pomo Dancers
Healdsburg Museum: 221 Matheson Street – Healdsburg, CA
4/5/25 - 5/11/25
Maakon Yowa: Grounded in Coast Miwok
(Curator)
Opening Reception: April 5, 2025
Special Event: Maakon Yowa Art Festival May 10, 2025, 11am-4pm
Gallery Route One: 11101 Highway 1 – Point Reyes Station, CA
4/12/25 - 9/14/25
Momim Wéné | Medicine Water
Flowing Throughout California Indian Country
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: April 12, 2025, 5-7pm
Maidu Museum and Historic Site: 1970 Johnson Rancheria Drive. Roseville, CA
11/21/24-1/12/25
Scattered Water Droplets: Yatapk'oyihim Mom
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Scattered Water Droplets was presented by concept:art+movement, in partnership with the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians’ Exhibits and Collections Center (ECC) and Arts and Culture El Dorado as part of the Momím Wadaahá Campaign, made possible by the Capitol Region Creative Corps grant. This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Scattered Water Droplets: Yatapk’oyihím Mom, shows the intimate relationship between native artists and their tribal waters. These artists were chosen to embody a "scattered" representation of native viewpoints across our region. Participating artists include Billy Hawk Enos, Raymond LeBeau, Jacky Calanchini, Viola LeBeau, Meyo Marrufo, Gemma Benton, Shanti Parks, Deerstine Suehead, and Jacinda Tayaba-Cordero.
10/9/24 - 1/23/25
Maakon Tomi: Our Homelands of the Coast Miwok
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: October 6, 2024
Special Event: Opening Festival 10/6/24 11am-5pm
Bartolini Gallery: 20 Avenue of Flags, San Rafael, CA
3/8/24-5/11/24
Wa Hinthil Come North
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: March 28, 2024 4:30pm-6pm
Goudi´ni Native American Arts Gallery: Featuring a group of 11 artists curated by Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo), Wa Hinthil Come North focuses on Pomo worldview through visual language and storytelling. Wa Hinthil is “the People” in the pomo language, this exhibition is a cultural exchange here north into our local tribal lands. Featuring regalia, digital media, photography, basketry, painting and more, this exhibition expands on the curatorial work of Marrufo that has been showcased at the Mendocino Art Museum, Grace Hudson Museum and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.
1/21/23-4/30/23
We are Still Here: Pomo Artists and our Cultural Landscape
(Curator/Participating Artist)
We Are Still Here: Pomo Artists and Our Cultural Landscape highlights contemporary artwork of Native Pomo artists and reflects the resilience of the Pomo Tribe and the strong connections to their land as a place for ceremonies, family events, gatherings, and religious observances.
Featured artists include Silver Galleto (Southern Pomo), Bonnie Lockhart (Northern Pomo, Kai Poma), Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo), Clint McKay (Dry Creek Pomo, Wappo and Wintun), Robin Meely (Southern Pomo), Kathleen Smith (Bodega Miwuk, Dry Creek Pomo) and Eric Wilder (Southwest Pomo). The artists come from different Pomo regions and their art honors the cultural landscape and lives of the people in their communities. Sharing powerful stories of the Pomo people by merging contemporary art with traditional culture, We Are Still Here reminds us of the history and heritage of native peoples that cannot be forgotten.
10/11/23-1/8/24
Birds, Baskets and Other Thoughts
(Curator/Participating Artist)
Middletown Art Center : This collection of works focuses primarily on the birds of my homeland around Clear Lake. Feathered baskets, an artform that few people have mastered, were mostly done by the Lake Pomo and some Southern Pomo who live in areas where there are many birds. There were probably less than 40 feather basket makers in the height of basketry in the early to mid 1900’s. The number of birds used varies from basket to basket and there was no annihilation of bird species in the making of these remarkable baskets. “My hope is that when you look at my work, you see not just the birds and other animals depicted, but the honor and relationship we have with them.”
9/22/22-1/15/23
Gathering Time: Pomo Art During the Pandemic
(Guest Curator/Participating Artist)
Grace Hudson Museum: The artists in this show were inspired to create both traditional and non-traditional art forms. They include basketmakers who refined their weaving and learned new techniques: Silver Galleto, Clint McKay, Robin Meely, Martina Morgan and Corine Pearce. They include makers of regalia and other traditional arts: Vince Brown, Patricia Franklin, Meyo Marrufo and Robert Geary. Some incorporated their traditions into painting, photography and textile designs: Bonnie Lockhart, Donna Ramirez, Rachael Smith-Ferri, Eric Wilder, and Katie Williams-Elliott. And they help us through their expressions of words: Laura Inong. They embrace multiple forms and cross boundaries of traditional and contemporary arts. We have all missed not being able to gather during our time of isolation and loss. So now let us have our Gathering Time when we can acknowledge losing family and dancers and culture bearers, and celebrate the thriving living culture we have still . . . through our art.
8/20/22-11/5/22
Nise'Tu'le: Our Relations
(Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: September 17, 2022 4pm-8pm
The Center Street Gallery: Curated by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Collections Center in partnership with the Native American Center for Arts & Culture.
7/9/22-10/10/22
Earth, Sky, and Everything in Between
(Participating Artist)
Middletown Art Center: The “Earth, Sky and Everything in Between” exhibit at the Middletown Art Center features a collection of contemporary Native American art, including baskets, jewelry, and paintings. The exhibit is the first Native American-curated, all indigenous show in Lake County.
5/6/22-6/27/22
We Are Still Here
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Artist Panel: May 14, 5pm-6pm
Closing Artist Talk: Exploring Our Culture Through Art, June 11, 2022 5pm-6pm
Mendocino Art Center: The Mendocino Art Center hosts “We Are Still Here,” an exhibit which allows for three artists from three different Pomo regions to honor the continued cultural landscape and lifeways of the Pomo people. The exhibition, showing in all three MAC galleries, features the artistry of Bonnie Lockhart (Northern Pomo/Kai Poma), Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo), and Eric Wilder (Southwest Pomo/Kashaya).
12/2/21-1/23/22
The Spirit of Pacific Western Traders – California Contemporary Native Arts Now and Then
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Opening Reception: December 3, 2021 5:30pm-7:30pm
Museum of Northern California Art: The Spirit of Pacific Western Traders, curated by Meyo Marrufo and Jennifer Bates, is a collaboration between the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, concept: art + movement, and The Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria. The Spirit of Pacific Western Traders takes a look at how one store affected generations of California Native artists. Pacific Western Traders (PWT) was founded in 1971 and had its humble beginnings in Folsom, CA as one of the first Native American art stores in Northern California. The owners, Herb and Peggy Puffer, grew PWT to become a premier venue for California Indian Arts.
11/20/21-1/23/22
After the Burn
(Participating Artist)
Center Street Gallery: art+movement in collaboration with the FIEA Native American Center for Arts & Culture and the Center Street Gallery at 3182 Center St. Placerville, CA presents the “After the Burn” exhibit. This inaugural exhibit features the works of eleven local Native American and indigenous artists from Northern California and Nevada. Artists included are; Devancy Rain Royalty (Cherokee, Care, Ponca Descendant), Kat Solares (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians),Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo),Ali Meders Knight (Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria),Denise Davis (Mountain Maidu),Jamie Lanouette (Nisenan),Gemma B. Benton (Menominee and Filipino), Maya Velasco (Tohono O’odham/Chiricahua Apache, Gerald Stone (Seminole/Cherokee),Noixium Berrios (Xicano, Yaqui Tribal Descent),Shanti Parks (Colfax Rancheria),Melissa Melero Moose (Northern Paiute),Jacky Calanchini (Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians),Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi/Konkow/ Nisenan) and Lorraine Luna (Yoeme).
8/30/21-9/30/21
Birds of a Feather
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Artist Panel: September 11, 2021 5pm-6pm
Opening Reception: September 11, 2021 6pm-8pm
Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture: Birds of a Feather offers a glimpse into the practice of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), featuring the post-contact utilitarian artistry of Jeremy Peconom (Mt. Maidu) alongside Meyo Marrufo (Eastern Pomo), Kai LaPena (Wintu), Jaime Lanouette (Nisenan) and Shanti Parks (Mewuk).
4/29/21-6/13/21
Birds of a Feather
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
Artist Panel: September 11, 2021 5pm-6pm
Opening Reception: September 11, 2021 6pm-8pm
Confidence Firehouse Gallery: The "Birds of a Feather" exhibition at Arts and Culture El Dorado was a significant event that showcased the works of local Native California Indian artists. The exhibition featured the post-contact utilitarian artistry of Jeremy Peconom, alongside fellow TEK practitioners Meyo Marrufo, Kai LaPena, and Jaime Lanouette. It offered a glimpse into the practice of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and the continuum of California Native cultural arts. The exhibition provided a unique opportunity to appreciate the depth of the artists’ relationships to their materials and to each other, highlighting the interconnectedness of California Native communities through their ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to contemporary cultural arts in the region.
11/22/19-1/12/20
The Spirit of Pacific Western Traders
(Participating Artist)
Harris Center at Folsom Lake College
Folsom, California
Bank of America Gallery: The Spirit of Pacific Western Traders is a showcase of regional Native art and design that honors both the history and contemporary legacy of Pacific Western Traders. The exhibition reflects on the gallery’s role as a gathering place for Native artists, culture bearers, and community members from 1971 to 2014, while celebrating the intergenerational and multicultural contributions of Native artists working in California today. Featuring Tiffany Adams, Jack Alvarez, Dugan Aguilar, Gayle Anita, Charley Burns, Dalbert Castro, Frank Day, Harry Fonseca, Richard Kastl, Lorraine Luna, Frank LaPena, Kai LaPena, Sage La Pena, Meyo Marrufo, Stan Padilla, Jeremy Peconom, Arturo Singh, Gerald Stone.
11/16/19-3/7/20
Intertwined
(Participating Artist)
Lolmĕn Gallery
Placerville, CA
11/14/19-11/16/19
The Offering: Creating Bonds of Beauty
(Co-Curator/Participating Artist)
California Indian Museum and Cultural Center: A companion show to the California Indian Conference.
10/18/19-1/1/20
California Perspectives
(Participating Artist)
Tides Thoreau Center SF: Presented by the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe
4/30/19-10/31/19
Basketdoodles
(Solo Artist)
Humboldt Area Foundation Community Center: Solo show.
11/10/18-1/5/19
Connected
(Participating Artist)
Blue Line Arts: Featuring California Indigenous artists active in the central California region.
10/26/18-12/14/19
Knowledge of Place
(Participating Artist)
China Brotsky and Seed Photography Galleries at the Tides Converge, Presidio of San Francisco: Knowledge of Place Art Show (October 26 – December 14, 2018) was an Indigenous art exhibition produced by The Cultural Conservancy and The Native American Academy, held in the unceded and occupied territories of the Ramaytush Ohlone. The show brought together diverse Indigenous artists in a collective expression of culture, place, and knowledge, while also serving as a benefit to support the Sculpture Garden of Native Science and Learning. Participating artists included Muriel Antoine (Lakota), Meyo Blue Cloud (Pomo), Wikuki Kingi (Maori), Tim Paul (Nuu-chah-nulth), Isabel Rorick (Haida Gwaii), Nora Akino (Issei), Dempsey Bob (Tahltan/Tlinget), Rose Imai (Tuscarora), Robin Rorick (Haida Gwaii), and Kristi Smith (Yurok).