Join us Sunday, August 31, for a free lecture and workshop titled "Adornment in the Southwest Via Turquoise and Earth: Indigenous Perspectives on Cultural Landscape" presented and led by Venaya Yazzie. This free workshop will begin at 12:00pm in the Aztec Ruins Visitor Center theater, and last approximately two hours. All materials for the workshop will be provided, but spots are limited to the first 15 participants. Please call the visitor center at (505) 334-6174 to reserve your spot.
Venaya J. Yazzie is a Diné / Hopi cultural educator, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet dwelling in the ancestral lands of her maternal family in the San Juan Valley in northwestern New Mexico. Her heritage is rooted in the Huerfano, NM, and Chaco Canyon area. Through her work in the Arts and as a researcher, she strives to reclaim the true historical past of Indigenous Southwest people, and reaffirm land narrative and identity. Her lecture and workshop will focus on legacy adornment practices from the past to the present and how those practices relate to the cultural landscape of the Four Corners region.
Yazzie is an alumnus of the University of New Mexico (M.A. in Education and Indian Education), Fort Lewis College, and the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Arts. She is a board member of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Native American Advisory Committee and has worked closely with the Navajo Cultural Museum Board, Northwest New Mexico Arts Council, the Artist-in-Residence program, the SEEDS Project, the Friends of Cedar Mesa, and the Bears Ears Coalition.
This event is made possible by the Northwest New Mexico Arts Council and the Chaco Culture Conservancy (CCC).
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