American representational art: Weaving

(above: image from An Introduction to the Study of Textile Design, A. Barker, Methuen & Co, London,1903)

Articles from Resource Library in chronological order:

• Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets (5/9/08)
• Many Colored Weaves (4/21/08)
• Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables; with essay by Eleanor Heartney (11/5/07)
• The Great American Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors (7/11/07)
• Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (1/14/06)
• Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets (11/21/05)
• Blanket Statements (9/19/05)
• Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (9/15/04)
• Southwest Textiles: Pueblo and Navajo Traditions (2/20/04)
• Evolving Identities: Figurative Work from the 19th Century to Now (2/4/04)
• American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum of Art (9/25/03)
• Angel DeCora: American Artist and Educator; article by Sarah McAnulty (8/4/03)
• The Navajo Weaving Tradition (11/13/00)
• Stories Woven In: the Navajo Way of Seeing (9/9/99)
• Southwest Weaving: A Continuum (7/7/99)
• Navajo Weavings from the Getzwiller Collection (1/29/99)
• Gifts of the Spirit: Works by 19th Century and Contemporary Native American Artists (5/24/98)

From other web sites:

• Weaving in the Margins: Navajo Men as Weavers from the Museum of New Mexico/Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

this online audio show:

Boston College partnered with the Forum Network for:

Religious Imagery in Navajo Textiles (1 hour, 11 minutes) a lecture by Rebecca Valette, professor, french, Boston College, who explains that seemingly abstract Navajo designs are, in fact, religious symbols imbued with specific meanings. [November 7, 2002]

these online videos:

Navajo Weaving from Current.tv. Evangeline Succo teaches her son Ian about Navajo Weaving.

Smithsonian TV is a central index of multimedia content and a multimedia hosting service of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. On March 16, 2005 The National Museum of the American Indian hosted a lecture titled "Two Grey Hills Navajo Tapestry Traditions," presented by master weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete. On May 6 and 7, 2005 The National Museum of the American Indian presented the two-day symposium Native Modernism. featuring the art of George Morrison and Allan Houser. The 45 minute Keynote Address: Native Modernism, by Mr. Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), National Museum of the American Indian is presented online.

The University of Arizona Library presents 21 QuickTime video clips from the production Navajo Weaving originally produced in 1990 by KUAT-TV, Tucson, Arizona.

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network includes a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of Boston-area museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. Boston College partnered with the Forum Network for Religious Imagery in Navajo Textiles (1 hour, 11 minutes) a lecture by Rebecca Valette, professor, french, Boston College, who explains that seemingly abstract Navajo designs are, in fact, religious symbols imbued with specific meanings. [November 7, 2002]

TFAO also suggests these DVD or VHS videos:

Art of Navajo Weaving and The Durango Collection of Southwest Textiles, The is a 56 minute dual-film video distributed by Interpark, Cortez, CO. The Art of Navajo Weaving beautifully documents the state of Navajo weaving, looking at it's origins and, through a visit with a contemporary Navajo weaving family, it's current state. It features Isabel and Geanita John, award winning pictorial weavers. The Durango Collection, an interesting and educational film, is a tour through the Durango Collection, the most complete collection of Navajo and Southwestern weaving in the world. The Collection is a part of The Southwest Center at Fort Lewis College The film is narrated by Jackson Clark and Mark Winter. (text courtesy of petroglyphtrail.com)

 

On The Border: Native American Weaving Traditions of The Great Lakes and Prairie. Featuring three Minnesota artists (Francis Keahna, splitash basketry; Melvin Losh, porcupine quillworking on birchbark; and Josephine Ryan, finger weaving), this video documents the continuity of traditional American Indian arts, as well as the artists' innovations. 28 minutes. (quote courtesy Plains Art Msueum)

 

Weavers: Contemporary Navajo Weaving is a 15 minute 1992 video produced by the Denver Art Museum.

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