Artist Spotlight: Wallace Begay

Wallace Begay is a talented Navajo artist. Each month Turquoise Skies spotlights a Native American artist, and this month we recognize Wallace for his beautiful art. He is a renowned multi-talented artist that specializes in water color, oil painting, and sculpture. His art is collected throughout the world. His work has won awards at Native American art shows in Santa Fe and Gallup, NM, and Flagstaff AZ.  He primarily works out of Whitestone Studio, a name given to him by his grandfather.

Wallace is originally from Tolani Lake, AZ.  After graduating from Window Rock High School in Ft. Defiance, AZ, he attended Arizona State University and the University of Arizona. You can see more of Wallace’s beautiful work and order  prints at:

www.wallacebegay.com 

 


About the author

Mateo James is the founder of T.Skies Jewelry in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and hosts T.Skies live shows, where he has interviewed Native silversmiths, turquoise mine owners and turquoise historians. He is of mixed Spanish, Welsh and Indigenous Native American descent. His guides draw on the reference books in the T.Skies library and on the work of the Native silversmiths T.Skies credits by name.