The Weaving News
Tempe, AZ I need to catch you up on the rest of this summer’s classes! Our second week-long class met in Window Rock, AZ from August 5th through the 12th. Since this class is just before college semesters begin in this part of the country, we had four professors from various disciplines in this group…
Tempe, AZ I have been meaning to introduce you to Flagstaff weaver Amy Begay all summer and as you may have noticed, I’m running out of days quickly. Amy teaches in a bi-cultural school in Flagstaff and is also a prolific weaver. She loves to do tufted pieces and had two of them when I…
Tempe, AZ I’ve had fun this week going over the pictures from the June Weaving in Beauty class in Window Rock. In this group, half of the students had taken a class with us before, so some of us had a chance to learn completely new things and some of us were seeing new things…
Jennie Slick and I managed to hit all the Four Corners states with classes during June and we also had a great drive across Wyoming added to the bargain. We found incredible interest in Navajo weaving techniques and culture where ever we went. Our first stop was at Bear Lake, which is on the Oregon…
The Gathering of Weavers, the Heard Museum’s annual celebration of Navajo weaving and weavers, had been re-scheduled to Saturday, December 1. Originally scheduled for November 3, the Gathering will feature many contemporary weavers showing their work and demonstrating weaving, spinning and dyeing. There are also interesting talks by interesting people and book signings. The Gathering…
“Where are you traveling to?”, asked the Texas Highway Patrol trooper who had pulled us over for doing four miles an hour over the speed limit. “Fort Worth”, I said, discarding some of the more creative “none of your business” responses that jumped into my mind first. I was pretty sure that a dose of…
Tempe, AZ Happy Birthday(!) to one of the most talented, kind and generous people I know: weaver Gilbert Begay. In addition to working full-time at Safeway, Gil is an accomplished weaver who just finished demonstrating twill saddle blanket weaving at the opening of They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets. The exhibit contains examples…
Phoenix, AZ I thought that we were doing pretty well in getting you a visit with all of the weavers that I saw at the Heard and then I had to rebuild the hard drive on my laptop. Fortunately, I had backups but it took awhile to get everything back to normal. I’m…
Phoenix, AZ Although the Heard Museum Indian Market is huge, returning artists are often given in the same space year after which makes it easier for visitors like me to find artists. Glancing to my left after I talked Michael Ornelas, I saw the unmistakable work of Jason Harvey. Jason is a master weaver…
Phoenix, AZ Walking out of the F area tent and turning left will bring us to weavers Lola and Melissa Cody and the Ornelas family (Barbara, Michael and Sierra). Michael was the only member of the Ornelas group in the booth when I dropped by, but he had four of his 100+ weft count framed…
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