Native American Representational Art: online videos
See these online videos:
Achievement.org
is a unique, non-profit entity that has an extensive collection of biographies,
profiles and interviews of the great thinkers, achievers and influencers
of our time. The site features video segments of an interview
with Native American artist Fritz Scholder recorded on June 29, 1996
at Sun Valley, Idaho
Arizona Public
Media offers a February
5, 2008 video (05:14) on Louis David Valenzuela. Sculptor Louis David
Valenzuela is doing everyting he can do to keep the Yaqui culture alive
through his art. Valenzuela's Pascola masks are in the collection of the
Arizona State Museum. In this story, you will see how and why he creates
those sacred masks.
The Heard Museum maintains a Heard
Videos page containing links to documentaries, interviews and performances.
As of February, 2010 interviews include a three-part interview with Albuquerque
Museum Curator Deborah Slaney who tours the C.G. Wallace collection of Zuni
Jewelry. In other videos, Norman Sandfield discusses his seedpot collection
and Nora Naranjo-Morse speaks about her sculpture.
Dr. Mark Sublette, owner of Medicine Man Gallery in
Tucson and Santa Fe, has created a channel
of YouTube online videos on topics relating to Native American baskets,
weavings, pottery and carvings. Titles regarding authentication include:
For pottery:
For weavings:
For carvings:
For baskets:
General:
Maria
Martinez: Notable New Mexican [5:08] Orginally broadcast on New Mexico
PBS station KNME.
Navajo
Weaving from Current.tv. Evangeline
Succo teaches her son Ian about Navajo Weaving.
From New Mexico PBS via YouTube, a six minute video
Maria Martinez:
Notable New Mexican. Also see Allan
Houser: Notable New Mexican from New Mexico PBS - 5 minutes - Jul
17, 2006.
The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA produced an online
presentation titled Indian
Market: New Directions in Southwestern Native American Pottery to
accompany a 2002 exhibition. The "Indian Market" segment describes
the annual event in a video interview with Sicangu Lakota artist and psychiatrist
Thomas Haukass.
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]
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