Shows and Events
Toadlena Trading Post Centennial
Toadlena, NM The Toadlena Trading Post is celebrating 100 years in business with a new exhibit that documents the weaving genealogy of the Bear Clan. Trading post owner Mark Winter has gathered rugs representing Bear Clan weavers who are in the living memory of the present generation. Each matriarch and her descendants are documented in…
Read More2009 Sheep is Life Celebration
Farmington, NM Jennie Slick and I are on our way to do a Navajo Weaving Boot Camp at Bear Lake in Utah and we had a chance to stop by the Sheep is Life Celebration today. The event is being held on the campus of Navajo Preparatory Academy in Farmington, New Mexico and celebrates the…
Read MoreWays to Improve Your “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” Essay: Don’t Miss These Exhibits!
Two inspiring weaving exhibits are taking place over the next few months and you’ll want to visit them both if you can possibly do it. The Generations exhibit from Toadena Trading Post runs through January 23, 2010 at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ, and the Diamonds, Dreams and Landscapes exhibit at the…
Read More2009 Heard Museum Guild Indian Market: Part IV (TahNiiBaa Naataanii)
Every year, TahNiiBaa Naataanii seems to grow more proficient and creative as an artist and craftsperson. Each piece that she had displayed this year reflected a unique composition united by TahNiiBaa’s skill in the realization of her vision. She has been working with shaped weavings for several years and wore one of her creations as…
Read MoreSecond Gathering of Weavers Marketplace Scheduled for 2009
Lynn Bullock at the Heard Museum let me know this morning that the Heard Museum has scheduled a second Gathering of Weavers Marketplace for November 7, 2009. Mary Walker
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