This traveling exhibition presents twenty-five prints by thirteen Native American artists who work in both figurative and abstract modes of expression. The imagery employed incorporates diverse references, from landscape and ancient rock art to popular culture. Artists represented include R.C. Gorman, T.C. Cannon, James Harvard, Robert Houle, Phil Hughte, Felice Lucero-Giaccardo, Solomon McCombs, Dan Namingha, Duane Slick, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, Patrick Swazo Hinds and Emmi Whitehorse. Multiple Impressions highlights the diversity of lithographs created by Native American and Canadian First Nation artists at Tamarind between 1970 and 1999.

Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.,was founded in Los Angeles in 1960 to "rescue the dying art of lithography." Ten years later it became affiliated with the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the name was changed to Tamarind Institute. At Tamarind, invited artists work with master artisan-printers in a collaborative work environment that is designed to encourage experimentation and extend the expressive potential of the medium.

A lithograph is a print made by using a press to transfer an image that was originally created on stone or a metal plate. Aloys Senefelder, who invented lithography in 1798, preferred to call it "chemical printing" since the process depends on the chemical interaction of grease, nitric acid, gum arabic, and water, unlike many other types of printmaking which depend on incised or carved lines. Although the term can refer to commercially reproduced images, such as those on posters or in magazines, at Tamarind a lithograph is an image made by an artist who works closely with an artisan printer.

Multiple Impressions is guest curated by Dr. Joyce Szabo for the University of New Mexico Art Museum. The exhibition is traveling under the auspices of TREX: The Traveling Exhibitions Program of the Museum of New Mexico.