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I will not be applying to Santa Fe Indian Market for future shows. There are several reasons including cost, travel expenses, and booth location during the show, that have led to this decision. However, I will still be there to celebrate/appreciate everyone else’s hard work and achievements. This will also allow me time to see other shows and to explore Santa Fe’s various amenities during the week. I will continue doing the Heard Indian Market whenever I’m juried into the show and various outside market shows and opportunities when they appear. Thank you for your love and support and the best of luck to all my fellow creatives.

December 1, 2022 – January 8, 2023

A few of my works will be available at Royse Contemporary in downtown Scottsdale for the month of December. This exhibit will be about the examination of color, and the effects upon the viewer created by the artist.

The Consideration of Color exhibition will open to the public Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The gallery will host a special artist reception on Thursday, December 8 from 6:00 to 8:00pm, coinciding with the “Scottsdazzle Artwalk“. Consideration of Color will be on display at Royse Contemporary from December 1, 2022 through January 8, 2023. 

March 5, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Members only admission begins at 8:30 a.m.*)
March 6, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

I’m also on the latest issue of First American Art, check it out at your favorite newsstand.

And I’m also participating in a benefit show for GuVo Skate Park on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, and the show will be up starting Monday, March 7th-31st.

Thank you for your support and I will hopefully see you at the market!

Sat, Oct 9 / 1–3:30 pm ET

https://madmuseum.org/events/my-heart-these-medicine-bundles

This two-part public program takes Mary Holiday Black’s Ceremonial Basket, Black, Red, White (c. 1998) in MAD’s permanent collection as a catalyst for collaboration. Facilitated by Diné (Navajo) artist Damian Jim and members of the Brooklyn-based Interference Archive, this event highlights the importance of collective-making processes in crafts and celebrates the unexpected results of co-creation.

My Heart Is in These Medicine Bundles will begin with a conversation on the significance of baskets in Diné culture. These objects—used for everyday tasks and ceremonial purposes—are woven through labor-intensive practices that are usually carried out in community. Bringing people together as they work, baskets also function as storytelling vehicles and life maps. Jim, who between 1995 and 1999 collaborated with more than fifteen weavers in his native Utah, will be sharing how they all came together to create hundreds of designs that won multiple awards. The conversation will be contextualized by texts from Indigenous newspapers in Interference Archive’s collection to expand on themes of preservation and tradition as generative forces.

During the second part of the event, attendees will learn how to screen print by experimenting with a series of posters designed by Jim with MAD and Interference Archive on the occasion of this convening.

The Heard Museum has extended the availability of the t-shirts I designed for them. If you didn’t get a chance to order a shirt, you’ll have another 20 days to reserve yours!

The t-shirts will be available for a limited time and all the proceeds go to the museum.

To reserve your shirts, go to the following link:

https://www.bonfire.com/2021-heard-museum-indian-fair-market-shirt/

I’m proud to announce that this year the judges awarded a first place ribbon in 2D/Prints for “Lessons in Psychedelic Warfare”, and an honorable mention ribbon in 2D/Mixed mediums, for “Corollary”.

Thank you for your support and please keep safe out there.

The year couldn’t have been more weird and surreal than what we’ve been going through as a global society. I can remember this time last year talking about the possibility of a lockdown with fellow artists at last years Heard Indian Market. We were all unprepared for the our current situation. The lives that we have lost and continue to lose is heartbreaking, and yet we must continue to move forward and learn to live with our new way of life. During this time I’ve been painting and working from home, and while I managed to travel, we had to limit our contact with other people and forgo social activities.

This year, in an effort to maintain safety for everyone involved, the Heard Indian Market will be a virtual event. I had agreed to do the event when the call came out, as I had also done the virtual market for Santa Fe Indian Market. In December, the Heard Guild reached out to me and inquired whether I could work with the museum in creating the art for the t-shirts this year. I provided several ideas and finished works to decide on a direction for the art.

Out of these meetings, the Guild chose “Corollary” because of the backstory:

Corollary – pencil sketch
Corollary_WIP – mixed medium painting (spray paint, markers, acrylic)

I came up with the concept for Corollary while problem solving. It started with a good friend of mine, who was moving away to another town, and she couldn’t find a place to put an unfinished canvas. So, she gave it to me and I proceeded to hang on to it, thinking I could reuse it at some point. Fast forward several years later when I wanted to start using up some of the canvases that I had been acquiring over the years, and I found the canvas again. My friend had painted a huge Y chromosome in yellow over the whole canvas, and keeping that in mind I wanted to do a painting while in isolation that could contain the voices and frustrations of everyone during this time. I created the background, but I didn’t have anything beyond that, until a few more months passed and the anxiety and feelings of helplessness with friends and family passing away, led me to more drawing and sketching. This was when Corollary emerged from those dark times. I had a vision of Mother earth carrying the burden of the living and the dead, and offering compassion and hope.

The only problem was the painting had to be finished, and then I had to vector the art, all in a 3 week time period, and still juggling my day job. But I committed to the project and worked evenings and weekends, and completed the painting

And right after that I took the photo and started vectoring the image and produced the vector over a weekend.

Overall the project turned out great and the honor of working with the Heard Museum Guild to create a t-shirt for the market. The t-shirts will be available for a limited time and all the proceeds go to the museum.

To reserve your shirts, go to the following link:

https://www.bonfire.com/2021-heard-museum-indian-fair-market-shirt/

And the Virtual Heard Indian Market will be on March 5, 7th (https://heard.org/event/fair-2021/)

Thank you for your support and please keep safe out there.

The 2020 Virtual Indian Market is now live! To see and acquire my new work go to: http://www.1spotgallery.com.

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Heard Indian Market
March 7th,8th, 2020
Sat. 9:30am – 5pm
Sun. 9:30am – 4pm

2301 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85004

https://heard.org/fair/

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