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Subject: Diné (Navajo) Velveteen Blouse with Silver Buttons
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Mar 23rd 2013, 10:28am
Santa Fe Style fashion has been modeled somewhat from the velveteen clothing of Navajo women. The simple velveteen blouse of the Navajo was expande...
Read More Title: Bronze Sculpture “Something About a Woman”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Mar 16th 2013, 4:41pm
Bruce LaFountain was raised on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota, the official reservation of the Chippewa tribe. Hi...
Read More Title: Bronze Sculpture “Corn Maiden”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Mar 16th 2013, 4:31pm
Al Qöyawayma is one of the most famous Hopi potters of the contemporary scene. He entered the art scene around 1970 and is still actively making po...
Read More Title: Navajo Folk Art Wood Carving “Man on Motorcycle”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Mar 12th 2013, 6:09pm
Harrison Juan has been carving the cottonwood he finds along the creek beds of the San Juan River for over 35 years. He was born in Lake Valley and...
Read More Title: Bronze Sculpture “Dance Day”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Mar 11th 2013, 2:47pm
Glenna Goodacre is a well-known, perhaps the best known, female sculpture artist. Her sculptural works appear in public, private, municipal and mu...
Read More BOOK: Southwest Textiles: Weavings of the Navajo and Pueblo
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Thu, Mar 7th 2013, 4:08pm
The significance of Navajo and Pueblo textiles transcends simple artistic, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Potte...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Wool Rug from the Ganado Area
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Mar 4th 2013, 12:42pm
This marvelous floor rug was made entirely from native hand-spun wool fleeces of un-dyed and aniline-dyed yarns. The variegated background field is...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Wood Folk Art Carving “Talking God”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sun, Mar 3rd 2013, 12:57pm
Talking God is one of the Navajo Yeibichai, a main deity. He is unusual in that he is the one Navajo deity who is compassionate and an advocate fo...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving "Female Skinwalker"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 2:41pm
This sculpture is of a Female Skinwalker, which, in Navajo legend, would be much rarer than male Skinwalkers. There are several varieties of Navajo...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving “Skinwalker”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Feb 25th 2013, 11:40am
Lawrence Jacquez (pronounced Hackus) was born in 1965 and lived in a hogan under the shadow of Dzil Ná'oodilii. There is an old cedar hogan weathe...
Read More Title: Pair of Hopi Wood Dance Wands
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Feb 23rd 2013, 12:53pm
Dance wands of the style of this pair are used by Hopi women when dancing for rain, and are held vertically by the white handles, one in each hand....
Read More Title: Navajo Folk Art Carving “Grandma in Blue with Coke Can”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Feb 23rd 2013, 12:40pm
Harrison Juan describes the inspiration for his innovative and distinctive current style as follows: “I was at an art show and I saw myself in the...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Carving “Blessing Way—Hózhó”
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, Feb 19th 2013, 2:36pm
After completing the equivalent of middle school, Jacquez (pronounced Hackus) went to work in construction but an accident ended that career after ...
Read More Title: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Carving “Spider Woman” pair of rattles
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sun, Feb 17th 2013, 4:32pm
Marvin Jim was born in 1966 and raised in a small rural community near Chinle, Arizona—traditional Navajo sheep and goat country. As a child, he m...
Read More Title: Navajo Woman Holding Baby in Cradleboard
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, Feb 15th 2013, 3:50pm
In the 1990s, images of Johnson Antonio’s dolls began to appear in newspapers and magazines across the country, and he has received favorable revie...
Read More Special Exhibit: The Chuck and Jan Rosenak Collection of Native Art
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 1:09pm
Chuck and Jan Rosenak were major collectors of folk art when they lived in New Mexico. They authored a couple books on Navajo folk art. Several yea...
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