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Shepherd's Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. "We're losing a lot of these older ...
A Denver-based weaver and her sister interviewed 20 Navajo artists across the S.west for Spider Woman’s Children, an intimate and heartbreaking anthology.
There really is a breadth of things that we can exhibit. I think this exhibit will really engage people." Indeed, the exhibit features stunning examples of Navajo weaving both simple and complex.
Warner Southern College will host a unique four-day program beginning Monday. Fiber artist Jennie Slick will be the college's artist in residence, demonstrating the traditional art of Navajo ...
The new exhibit, "A Continuous Thread: Navajo Weaving Traditions," will trace the history of the Navajo weaving tradition from the earliest Mexican-inspired Saltillo serapes, c. 1880, to mid-20th ...
Two Navajo artists living in New Mexico who have broken away from that slice of weaving history reach backward and forward in time, through pre-European-contact patterns and across centuries ...
The town that gave its name to the Navajo weaving style associated with Melissa Cody’s work was also where Howardena Pindell grew up during Jim Crow.
Woven history: During a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art, computer historian Ken Shirriff stumbled across a Navajo weaving with a strangely familiar pattern. Upon closer inspection, he ...
While visiting the National Gallery of Canada, Sharif noticed a pattern on a Navajo textile from New Mexico that looked similar to the pattern on Intel's Pentium processor. The textile, called ...
CLAREMORE, Okla. — Shepherd’s Cross in Claremore is handing down the art of Navajo weaving. As students learn how to weave a Navajo rug, they also learn the history behind it. “We’re ...