Rhymes For Young Ghouls, screening Thursday, Oct. 30 6 p.m. in the Auditorium.
Navajo and other cutting-edge American Indian jewelry will be available for purchase from knowledgeable dealers.
MEET THE ARTISTS WITH LEE, RAYMOND AND MARY MARIE YAZZIE Saturday, Nov. 15 1 p.m., 2 p.m. & 3 p.m. East Gallery Interact with three of the artists featured in Glittering World: Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family and learn about their jewelry-making techniques, sources of artistic inspiration and cultural heritage.
HORACE POOLAW: A DISCUSSION Saturday, Nov. 22 2 p.m. Diker Pavilion, East Gallery Horace Poolaw’s daughter Linda Poolaw (Kiowa/Delaware), the Grand Chief of the Delaware Grand Counsel of North America, will be joined by art historian Laura Smith in a discussion about Poolaw’s photography, relationship to his community and the importance of family. A book-signing will follow the program.
TANNER’S INDIAN ARTS TRUNK SHOW Friday, Nov. 21 and Saturday, Nov. 22 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. Glittering World gallery store, East Gallery Tanner’s Indian Arts in Gallup, N.M., sells Native jewelry by members of the Yazzie family and others. Navajo and other cutting-edge Native jewelry will be available for purchase from Emerald Tanner of Tanner’s Indian Arts.
HOLIDAY FILM: THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY Monday, Nov. 24 – Sunday, Nov. 30 Daily at 1 p.m. Diker Pavilion (2000, 52 min.) Documentary. United States. Jeff Spitz with co-producer Bennie Klain (Navajo). When an obscure 1950s film called Navajo Boy turns up, it leads a contemporary Navajo family to recall its history as the subject of still photos and movie images and the impact on its life of the uranium mines. This encounter sets in motion a chain of
events that leads to the return of the family’s long-lost brother.
ART MARKET PREVIEW PARTY Friday, Dec. 5
4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. This festive, ticketed party gives guests preview access to the Art Market, along with a cocktail reception and gallery tours. Have first pick of the Art Market. Tickets start at $45. For info, call (212) 514-3750, email
NYRSVP@si.edu, or visit
www.AmericanIn-
dian.si.edu and click “Art Market.”
NATIVE ART MARKET 2014 Saturday, Dec. 6 & Sunday, Dec. 7 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. The annual Art Market – held in New York City and Washington, D.C. – offers unique, handmade, traditional and contemporary art and design directly from Native artists from North, Central and South America. Work by 35 artists will be for sale at each location, including handmade jewelry, beadwork, pot- tery, baskets, prints, paintings and sculptures.
AT THE MOVIES: REFLECTIONS IN TIME
A WEAVE OF TIME: THE STORY OF A NAVAJO FAMILY. PRECEDED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE NAVAJO and THE NAVAJO SILVERSMITH Sunday, Dec. 7 1 p.m. Auditorium In 1966 a filmmaking workshop, set up on the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Ariz., by scholars Sol Worth and John Adair, gave young adults a chance to make their own
films, including documentation of the work of a silversmith by Johnnie Nelson and of an elderly healer, the filmmakers’ grandfather, by Mary Tsosie and Maxine Tsosie. Twenty years later, director Susan Fanshel is accompanied by Adair on a return visit to tell the story of the Burnsides, a family of weavers, with whom he had worked for more than five de- cades. Discussion follows with Susan Fanshel and scholar Teresa Montoya (Navajo).
STORYBOOK READINGS & HANDS-ON ACTIVITY Saturday, Dec. 13 1 p.m. Resource Center/Education Classroom Listen to Whale Snow, a story about the Inu- piaq and their relationship with the bowhead whale. Learn how to play the Eskimo yo-yo game. Make one to take home.
HOLIDAY FILM: MISS NAVAJO Monday, Dec. 22 – Sunday, Jan. 4 Daily at 1 p.m. Diker Pavilion (2006, 60 min.) United States. Director Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, Laguna Pueblo) creates a look at the Miss Navajo Nation competi- tion, following one contender’s journey and interviewing winners from the past five decades. In this unusual beauty pageant the contestants must demonstrate their fluency in the Navajo language, as well as skills such as sheep-butchering and fry-bread making, and assume their place in a spiritual con- tinuum that connects Navajo women to the gifts of Changing Woman.
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