Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Margaret Tafoya pottery on display at Carnegie, Native American artist Rhonda Holy Bear

Andres Quandelacy, Bisbee Cobolt Azurite Buffalo

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Headlines, exhibits, powwows listed below: (access past headline archives for 2004-2006 here)

Ancient Way Festival offering variety for all

Dorothy Grant, one of five contemporary native fashion artists

Fifth annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival

Heard Museum hosts 64th annual convention of the National Congress of American Indians

Sioux Falls to celebrate Native American Day

Family’s artistic talents shine at Santa Fe competition

Seminole Nation Residential Learning Center Dedicated At SSC

Margaret Tafoya pottery on display at Carnegie

CHEROKEE – Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual Co-op will host the sixth annual fall Qualla Open Air Indian Art Market

Muskogee art calendar

Offended neighbors get Utah park statue moved

Native American artist Rhonda Holy Bear

Kansas City Indian Fest

Genes, Language and Culture in Tewa Ethnogenesis

Cowboys and Indians Show in Sedona

National Museum of the American Indian: Beauty Surrounds Us

Indian Art Market puts talent from tribes on display

American Indians 101

NEW YORK — An exhibit of 55 dresses from tribes in the Plains, Plateau and Great Basins regions opens Sept. 26 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

The show is called "Identity by Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses."

Exquisite clay pots in the exhibition "Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya," at Carnegie Museum of Natural History through Jan. 4th, 2009

Storyteller Gene Tagaban, an Alaskan native of Tlingit and Cherokee heritage, uses traditional instruments, masks and dance, will appear at The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from 7 to 8 p.m., and the 21st annual Printing Partners Hoosier Storytelling Festival, a program of Storytelling Arts of Indiana supported by the Indiana Historical Society, Oct. 8-11 at Military Park. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.storytellingarts.org, at the Indiana Historical Society by calling (317) 232-1882. Advance tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children per session. Cost (per session) at the gate is $12 for adults and $6 for children per session.

Additional information about the festival, including a detailed schedule of events, and related workshops offered on Saturday are available at www.storytellingarts.org or by calling the Indiana Historical Society at (317) 232-1882 or (800) 447-1830.

(Through Feb 3, 2009) BEYOND TRADITION Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia is on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through February. One of the most recognizable figures in Southwestern ceramics, Garcia is known for infusing a two-thousand year old tradition with modernity. Examples of her most important pots are featured, with intricate designs, and bold shapes delicately carved into the clay.

Recent Books of Interest

''Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest (University of New Mexico Press: 2006). Editors V.B. Price and Baker H. Morrow have assembled 15 essays on the millennium-old Puebloan landscape.

"Being Lakota", Book by Larissa Petrillo

"American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", Book by George Horse Capture

Spokane artist George Flett, well kown for his depictions of ledger art, announcing forthcoming book "The Ledger Art of George Flett"

Po'pay, Leader of the First American Revolution, Clear Light Publishing, 2006, new book by Herman Agoyo (Ohkay Owingeh)

Medicine Wheel - Cherokee

The Medicine Wheel is representative of American Indian Spirituality.

The Medicine Wheel symbolizes the individual journey we each must take to find our own path. Within the Medicine Wheel are The Four Cardinal Directions and the Four Sacred Colors. The Circle represents the Circle of Life and the Center of the Circle, the Eternal Fire. The Eagle, flying toward the East, is a symbol of strength, endurance and vision. East signifies the renewal of life and the rebirth of Cherokee unity.

East = Red = success; triumph North = Blue = defeat; trouble West = Black = death South = White = peace; happiness

There are three additional sacred directions: Up Above = Yellow Down Below = Brown Here in the Center = Green

Winter = go-la The color for North is Blue which represents sadness, defeat. It is a season of survival and waiting. The Cherokee word for North means "cold" u-yv-tlv.

Spring = gi-la-go-ge The color for East is Red which represents victory, power. Spring is the re-awakening after a long sleep, victory over winter; the power of new life. The Cherokee word for East is ka-lv-gv

Summer = go-ga The color for South is White for peace, happiness & serenity. Summer is a time of plenty. The Cherokee word for South means "warm" u-ga-no-wa.

Autumn = u-la-go-hv-s-di The color for West is Black which represents death. Autumn is the final harvest; the end of Life's Cycle. The Cherokee word for West is wu-de-li-gv. ."

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