25th Marin Show: Art of the Americas February 21, 2009

The annual Marin Show: Art of the Americas will celebrate its 25th year this February, solidifying its reputation as the most substantive and extensive ongoing showcase focused on the indigenous arts from across North, Central and South America. The show, produced by KR Martindale Show Management, is described as the “superbowl of Native American Art collecting”, bringing together top and passionate dealers, collectors, artists, and academia from across the world. Kim Martindale, a collector for 30 years as well as an exhibitor, notes that the show has seen market prices of much of this art vault to the highest stratosphere during his 25 years producing the show. The exhibited art includes pottery, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, beadwork, baskets, paintings, photography and more, ranging in price from $25 - $1,000,025 so as to offer quality material to buyers ranging from first time buyers to seasoned collectors. The show is vetted by the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA), and is broken down into two areas: the main floor focusing on antique material, and the adjacent hotel ballroom, which showcases more contemporary art and artists.
In addition to the exhibit floor, there will be two public lectures, and one directed more to those highly vested in the business of collecting, owning or selling specifically Native American art.

Public Lecture 1: Saturday, Feb. 21, (10am) – “Collecting and the Law in Native American Art for Everyman” Representatives from the legal, Native American, collecting, and dealer worlds come together to define and discuss how the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and the Archaeological Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) pertains to them. $15 per person.

Public Lecture 2: Sunday, Feb. 22 (10:00am) – “Totem Poles and Tourism: The Creation of a Northwest
Coast Icon”, presented by the Friends of Ethnic Arts. Author / art historian Aldona Jonaitis discusses her new book of this name and how encounters between the tourism industry and Northwest Coast Native people helped make the totem pole the icon of the region.

Business Lecture: Thursday, Feb. 19, (5pm) ($100 per person; please call for reservations)
“Collecting and the Law, Pt. 2” Moderated by Roger Fry Esq., Rendigs, Fry,Kiely & Dennis, Llp, (OH), Professor of Law Emeritus Richard Edwards (U. of Toledo) will discuss the most recent changes in the interpretation of NAGPRA while Mark Rhodes Esq (Rhodes & Salmon, P.C.), trial attorney for Robert Gallegos, will discuss how these changes affect dealers and the dealers who have been on trial for violation(s) of ARPA. Proceeds to go to ATADA.

Official Website: http://www.marinshow.com