Lebel’s Old West Show Mesa, AZ Jan 20-21, 2018
Leave the snow behind and visit ~ 180 dealers offering a range of vintage Cowboy & Indian items to include art, jewelry, ephemera, memorabilia, antiques PLUS a live auction January […]
“IF they are interested enough, they will ask the meaning.”
Dextra Quotskuyva is a Hopi potter, a renowned one, who in Charles King’s newest book Spoken Through Clay, relays the title of this post. Its significance goes to the core […]
Online Artist Research via Digital Museum Files
Today someone with art by a Santa Clara artist wanted to know more about this artist, so I urged them to contact the Heard Museum’s library. Wrong ! Don’t wait […]
Expanding Boundaries for Paintings by American Indian Artists
My People in the City by Shonto Begay circa 2005 reflects the artist’s need to inject companion Navajo citizens into Manhattan during his residency there spanning roughly 7 years. […]
Basket Buying Alert !
Which of these two baskets were made by an American Indian basketmaker? The top basketry bowl was made in South Africa using Mokolwane Palm in Botswana. The olla below was made […]
The Art Market is Beginning to Turn Around
Edward Hopper’s etching The Lonely House (1923) sold for over $317,000 at Swann’s November 2017 print sale. Other indicators signaling a thumbs up direction include more positive reports from dealers attending […]
Annie Lopez Chosen 2017 Visual Artist Award Winner- Phoenix Mayor’s Arts Award !
A fourth generation Phoenician, Annie Lopez chooses to share her family’s history using art as a vehicle for this storytelling. For roughly 17 years she functioned as an office administrator […]
Electric Vegetal Wedge Weave by Marilou Schultz !!!
Experienced “Little Colorado Plateau”, a 34″ X 28″ wedge weave textile by Marilou Schultz at the Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture in Flagstaff last weekend. Oh my goodness what […]
HUrry HUrry ! Charles King’s latest book at PrePub price !!! by August 14
Spoken Through Clay by Charles King The book is 11.75″ x 14.25″ and weights over 8 pounds! * 352 pages, 320 color plates, 40 artist portraits!! * The photography of […]
Senior Women Artists are stealing the spotlight in the art market !
Artsy presents a podcast interview about “up and coming” 70 – 102 year old women artists whose price structures are zooming upward–outshining male artists of any age group. You can listen to […]