Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America

Ramp it Up celebrates the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian skate culture. Skateboarding combines demanding physical exertion with design, graphic art, filmmaking, and music to produce a unique and dynamic culture.

The exhibition features rare and archival photographs and film of Native skaters as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists.

Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America is currently on view at the San Diego Museum of Man through September 9, 2012.

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[SmithsonianNMAI]

Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America opens today at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., and is on view through September 13, 2009.

[Nk Knight]

this is insane, Native Americans + Skateboarding = Rad!

[Melanie Lee]

It is not vandalism to write graffiti on something you own, especially something small and mobile! Writing graffiti-style art on paper or a skateboard can be an alternative to writing on someone else's building.

[Hairee Stener]

But Rap goes with Gangsterism and was historically black culture while Alternative Rock goes with Skateboarding and was historically White middle class teen culture. This Native guy just combined he 2 sub-cultures.

[hopiboi100]

more like stole

[hopiboi100]

That looks like the filter mask u took from Rose

[Osuitea]

A whole lot of grafitti evetywhere is just vandalism and costly. If it was just wood would you write on it? Oh yeah, they did once long ago before paper and cloth.

[youbmarios]

im am a fragua too

[youbmarios]

like u can do better

[steezygeezy1]

juliejohnsongold---- well some people appreciate graffiti...graffiti tends to show the reality of our society more than most things, since there is no bias in art. to be honest i dont really feel bad for the people rich enough to own buildings like those downtown in my city, who have to deal with people that graffiti on them. Graffiti is a statement...id say putting up urban art on a cathedral is a pretty bold statement...props to that