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Tidbits Ed Archie NoiseCat won Best of Show at Indian Arts Northwest in June in Portland, OR. The winning piece, In the Beginning, is a 6-foot carved wood panel. Craig Tennant has been voted a signature member of the Oil Painters of America after only five months as an associate member. Wyoming painter Daryl Poulin [...]

Reports from Across the West

By Donna Tennant Utah Painting and Sculpture Edited by Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, and William C. Seifrit The first European settlers in the future state of Utah recognized the need for fine arts, and many generations since then have continued to cultivate them. Consequently Utah, along with California and New Mexico, has been [...]

“Indian Summer” by Deborah Chapin Out & About Maryland artist Deborah Chapin won the $5,000 Grand Prize Purchase Award in PaintAmerica’s Top 100 Art Competition for her plein-air painting indian summer…. Leslie Levy Fine Art in Scottsdale, AZ, celebrates 30 years in business with a reception on February 1. All gallery artists are creating new [...]

Reports from Across the West

By Donna Tennant Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland Photographs by Miguel Gandert • Foreword by Helen R. Lucero Award-winning photographer Miguel Gandert turns his lens on the mestizo peoples of the upper Rio Grande for his book, Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. The collection of 130 black-and-white photographs focuses [...]

By Donna Tennant Gone to Sanctuary: From the Sins of Confusion By John S. Kiewit “Follow the double yellow line of wheel tracks through the sand and rock, and you will find a habitation somewhere huddled in a protected place, with a few trees pointing their roots at the under-earth water, a patch of starveling [...]

Art news, June 2007

By Donna Tennant Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women By Patricia Janis Broder Patricia Janis Broder pays tribute to American Indian women painters in her latest book, Earth Songs, Moon Dreams. The first book devoted entirely to paintings by Native American women, it features works by more than 40 artists from across [...]