Journal
Interview with Pueblo Artist Anthony Romero My name is Anthony Romero. I am from Ohkay Ohwingeh (San Juan) Pueblo. I do acrylic painting. My origins they are coming from my pueblo culture. It’s just displaying the beauty and the culture that you’d normally not see from our pueblos because we’re more secluded and more kept […]
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Art has colored LaKota Scott’s life since birth. Growing up in Tuba City she watched her father, a sculptor, painter and fan maker, and other family members who were basket makers create beautiful pieces through their skill. As a child, she helped her father make fans. It was a natural apprenticeship that taught her the […]
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Renata Yazzie has been playing the piano for as long as she can remember. Her mother played, so she would sit by her and watch. As a toddler, she played by ear. When she was around four, her mother began to teach her, then Renata took private lessons with a piano teacher for the next […]
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Silver Shandiin has a message for indigenous parents: “Our kids and our culture are what will bring this world back together.” It’s a message that has inspired her art and her life. Her dolls and the messages they convey are a tangible representation of her hope that indigenous parents will understand that raising their children […]
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“It’s all about asking the right questions.” That’s what Navajo silversmith George Francis tells me as he hands me a box of what appear to be arrowheads (photo #1). Then he tells me that these are indeed “Indian” arrowheads. Made in India. Without asking the right questions, someone who purchased them as authentic would […]
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