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October 2005–November 2007
MASKS OF MEXICO: Santos, Diablos y Más
Beauty, pageantry, and power are hallmarks of traditionally carved Mexican masks from pre-Hispanic times to the present. Using bright colors and rich imagery, the artisans of Mexico create a fantastic and marvelous world of hand carved wooden masks. Faces smile, grimace, look angelic or diabolic. Whether they are part animal, part human, or stylized characters from Mexican history, they are all most importantly part of a compelling and continuing tradition.
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October 2007
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
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January–March 2007
WALKING IN TWO WORLDS: The Art of Jerry Brown
(Native Goods Featured Artist)
Brown, a Navajo painter making fearless forays into the abstract tradition, brings a sense of will to the cultural and creative challenge of shaping himself as an artist who walks in two worlds. When asked about the cultural content in his painting, he replies, “I use pattern, texture, and color in my paintings to communicate what I see and experience everyday.”
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February 2007
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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April–September 2006
LAS SUPER LUCHAS
Born and raised in Rio Grande Valley, Xavier Garza grew up loving the
legends of Lucha Libre. Las Super Luchas honors the
masked men and women who, by donning disguises and in essence leading a
double life, immortalized the sport of Lucha Libre. In all twenty works
commemorated major events in Lucha Libre history.
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February–April 2006
CARVING CULTURE: The Yoeme Masks of Frank Martinez
Martinez has carved pahkola masks yearly since his teenage years. In the 1980s there was a florescence of mask carving among the Tucson Yoemem and Martinez was at the forefront of the movement. This exhibit was
a testament to Martinez' skill and artistic abilities.
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February 2006
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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October 2005–January 2006
INSPIRED BY MASKS OF MEXICO
In a special "Masks of Mexico" museum-school project, La Cima Middle
School 6th grade students learned about the history of Mexican masks, their
use in performance, and the art of making them. The students then created
a collection of papier-mâché masks that were used in a performance and
displayed in the Museum.
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September–November
2005
MYSTERY OF FAITH: The Art of Daniel Martin Diaz
(Native Goods Featured Artist)
Diaz's paintings, prints, and drawings are inspired by Spanish
devotional folk art, which he blends with archaic imagery and old-world
techniques to evoke the religious imagery of 12th century European
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February 2005
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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March–September 2005
THE ART OF FORM: Alice Cling and Her Family of Navajo
Potters
The Williams/Cling family, led by Alice, has paved the way for Navajo art pottery. Her trademark high luster pots of exquisite form are collected by pottery connoisseurs nationwide.
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October–May 2005
NAVAJO WEAVING AT ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM: 19th Century
Blankets, 20th Century Rugs, 21st Century Views
This unprecedented exhibition showcased weaving from 150 years ago along
with contemporary weaving of the last four decades. More than 60 textiles
from ASM's nationally recognized collection and the renowned Santa Fe
Collection filled two galleries. Navajo weavers of today shared the significance
of this rich and enduring tradition in their own words.
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September–October
2004
TIEMPO: The Art of Gonzalo Espinosa
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
ASM presented an intimate exhibition
of mixed-media paintings by Mexican-born artist Gonzalo Espinosa. Espinosa
is known for his murals in South Tucson and for his vibrant depiction of
the
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February 2004
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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October 2003–June 2004
WITH AN EYE ON CULTURE:
The Photography of Helga Teiwes
During her 30-year
career, former Arizona State Museum photographer, Helga Teiwes, focused her
lens on American Indian peoples across the state - their arts, their
communities, and their lifeways. She also documented some of the most
significant archaeological excavations throughout the region.
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October–November 2003
IN THE NAME OF GOD / EN EL NOMBRE DE DIOS
Photographs by Alejandra Platt (Native Goods Featured
Artist)
Platt, a well-known photographer from Sonora, records the indigenous
cultures of Mexico — from her native state of Sonora to Yucatan, Chihuahua,
Cohauila, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Michoacan,
Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.
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March 2003–October
2004
THE POTTERY DETECTIVES: Decoding the
Secrets of Southwestern Pottery
Walking into a large scale reproduction, visitors could examine
its shape, design, decoration, content residue, clay, and other features.
The exhibition focused on how archaeologists "read" those
clues and why it is important to
examine the past. More Info | News Release |
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February 2003
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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January–February
2003
THE ART OF LOUIS DAVID VALENZUELA
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
Valenzuela is one of the best-known Yaqui artists living in Arizona. Valenzuela practices several art forms including painting and drawing, but he is best known for his willow wood and cottonwood mask carvings.
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December 2002–January 2003
NIZHONIGOO BIL IINA: Paintings by Shonto Begay, Diné
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
This exhibition was a rare, brief opportunity
to see the world through the clear vision of one of the Navajo Nation's
most respected artists. Shonto Begay's acrylic paintings vibrate with the
color and music of life.
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October 2002–May
2003
CONNECTIONS ACROSS GENERATIONS:
The Avery Collection
of American Indian Paintings
This exhibition showcased 355 paintings donated by the Avery family
to the Museum. The paintings, collected over 40 years, bracket the period
1935 to 1990, a time that brought many changes to reservation and rural
economies. The entire collection can be browsed
or searched online.
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September–October 2002
RITUALES: Mexican-American Rites and Rituals
Photographs by José Galvez (Native
Goods Featured Artist)
Galvez' work celebrates various Mexican-American ceremonies such as baptisms, First Communions, quinceañeras, weddings, home altars, graduations, naturalization ceremonies and even low rider competitions.
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February 2002
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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November 2001–May 2002
IN FLIGHT: Adriel
Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology
EN VUELO: Imágenes de Adriel Heisey
de los cerros de trincheras
Trincheras (the term literally means "entrenchments") are prehistoric
hilltop ruins of rock terraces, walls, and houses. Heisey's spectacular
images of these sites, taken from an ultra-light airplane of his own construction,
formed the core of this exhibition.
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July–August 2001
SEVEN EYES, SEVEN LEGS: Supernatural Stories of the
Abenaki
(Native Goods
Featured Artists)
This exhibition, a celebration of the Abenaki culture from eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, featured original carvings by gifted Abenaki artists Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa and Yalaikia Wapitaska.
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March 2001
EVIDENCE
Paintings by Robert Sorrell (Native Goods
Featured Artist)
Using the motif of suits, Sorrel's show expressed modern art forms and attitudes on native art and motifs that speak to a contemporary Native American culture. More Info |
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February 2001
SOUTHWEST INDIAN ART FAIR JURIED COMPETITION
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January–May 2001
PORTRAITS IN CLOTH: Tohono O'odham Quilts of Goldie
Richmond
The exhibition celebrated the life and art of an exceptional Arizona
woman. It featured three of Goldie's
quilts with themes related to the Tohono O'odham.
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2000–2002
Saving Southwest Traditions
THE POTTERY PROJECT: 2,000 Years—20,000 Vessels
ASM's Pottery Project is a major effort to create a new storage
vault for our unique collection of some 20,000 Southwest Indian whole-vessel
ceramics, and at the same time making it more accessible to the public
and to scholars. This unique collection spans 2000 years of life in the
American desert Southwest and northern Mexico, and reflects almost every
cultural group in the region. Our
curators created an exhibition demonstrating the collection's breadth
and depth to focus public attention on the Project.
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Fall 1998
VISIONS
AND VOICES: A Contemporary American Indian Portrait Exhibit
The exhibit consisted of portraits by Michael S. Shipman of U of A students, faculty and staff as well as students from St Gregory College Preparatory School. Personal statements from the subjects and contemporary Native American arts and crafts accompanied the portraits.
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