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Niwot Native Art Market
An afternoon of Indigenous art, culture, and community at the heart of Niwot. Native artists from across the Front Range will be on hand with original work, prints, and handmade pieces.
Date
Sat · June 27, 2026
Time
Noon — 5pm
Location
Cottonwood SquareNiwot, Colorado
Niwot area-resident Tom Myer, Haudenosaunee/Ngäbe-Buglé, and Phillip Yates with the Niwot Cultural Arts Association (NCAA) developed the inaugural Niwot Native Art Market in March 2025. Since then, Myer’s Thunder Wolf Native Arts & Culture organization has hosted three subsequent markets. Myer intentionally designed the market to showcase emerging Indigenous artists and honor established contemporary creators. This event features Native artists selling authentic beadwork, paintings, and traditional textiles directly to the public — serving as both a thriving marketplace and a visible site for deep cultural exchange.
The “Artist-First” Model
For generations, Native art in Colorado has often been pushed into the historical margins — relegated to static museum collections or textbook insets. To challenge this pattern, the Niwot Native Art Market operates on an uncompromising, process-driven artist-first model.
100%
Of earnings to artists
No booth fees. Thanks to baseline community support, participating artists from the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Diné, Lakota, Navajo, and other sovereign Nations keep everything they earn from their craft.
$0
Barriers to entry
By removing the steep financial entry barriers that typically exclude Indigenous creatives from mainstream local markets, this collaborative framework puts Native artists and their multi-generational work front and center — ranging from traditional beadwork and hand-woven textiles to modern digital media, comic books, and abstract painting.
Local Reporting on the Market’s Impact
Boulder Daily Camera
“Niwot Art Market holds a space for Native art, one that's not shoved into a museum corner”
May 30, 2025 · Read article →
9News Denver
“Colorado art market showcases one-of-a-kind creations by Native artists”
November 28, 2025 · Read article →
Left Hand Valley Courier
“Niwot Native Art Show draws large crowd”
March 19, 2025 · Read article →
Left Hand Valley Courier
“Niwot to host inaugural Niwot Native Art Market”
March 5, 2025 · Read article →
Frequently Asked Questions
The Niwot Native Art Market is an annual, fee-free, artist-first civic platform in the heart of Boulder County that gives Indigenous artists, dancers, musicians, and cultural experts a welcoming public space to share, celebrate, and sell their work.
The market was initiated by acclaimed Native artist Tom Myer in partnership with the Niwot community and is produced as an independent civic platform rooted in long-term tribal relationship building.
No. The market is intentionally fee-free for artists. One hundred percent of each sale goes directly to the Native artist — there are no booth fees, application fees, or commissions taken by the market.
Yes. The Niwot Native Art Market is free to attend and open to the entire public, including families, students, collectors, and visitors traveling from across the Front Range.
The market is held outdoors in downtown Niwot, Colorado, in Boulder County, on homelands of Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, including Arapaho and Cheyenne people.