Ramp It Up: Skateboard Sub Culture in Native America

Ramp it Up celebrates the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian skate board culture. Skateboarding combines demanding physical exertion with design, graphic art, filmmaking, and music to produce a unique and dynamic culture. One of the most popular sports on Indian reservations, skateboarding has inspired American Indian and Native Hawaiian communities to host skateboard competitions and build skate parks to encourage their youth.

Many Native American entrepreneurs own skateboard companies and sponsor community-based skate teams. Native artists and filmmakers, inspired by their skating experiences, credit the sport with teaching them a successful work ethic. The exhibition features rare archival photographs and films of Native skaters as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists.

Ending this Sunday 6/27 at the National Museum of the American Indian located at 1 Bowling Green ,New York.

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