Museum Library Seeks Help from Native American Artists

The Native American Artists Resource Collection has been a cornerstone of the Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives for more than 40 years and contains files of more than a quarter million Native American artists. The physical and online collections are the largest of their kind anywhere, offering biographical information on Native American artists, writers and performers. The material collected includes an extraordinarily wide variety of sources, among them journal and newspaper articles, photographs, gallery and exhibition catalogs, interviews, resumes, correspondence and much more. The Heard Museum wants to gratefully acknowledge the generosity of its many donors and artists, as well as the hard work and dedication of many guild volunteers and Heard Museum staff, without which this world-renowned, premier resource would not be available. The museum welcomes visitors to search this collection by visiting www.heard.org.

The Artists Resource Collection is continually expanding with new information and new names. Artists themselves are the best resource the museum has to remain both up-to-date and accurate. To ensure the continued growth and quality of this vital resource, the Heard asks artists and their galleries to include the library and archives on their distribution and mailing lists. In addition, the museum seeks resumes, photographs of artwork and copies of printed materials concerning artists and their work. Native American artists may download a questionnaire from the website.