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Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Ernie Washee
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Ernie Washee is a Navajos Silversmith from Blanding Utah. His silver jewelry work is rooted in the iconic Southwest petroglyph figures found on sandstone rocks. He specializes in overlay metalwork and uses designs such as deer, ok and spiral designs.
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Native Art Voices of the 4Corners with Kevin Aspaas
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Kevin Aspaas is a Diné artist from Shiprock,NM in northwest NM. He is a make weaver who is carrying on the tradition of the Navajo loom and textiles. He specializes in the Diné “wedge-weave” design. Kevin also creates Navajo women’s cultural dress called a “biil.”
Thursday May 18, 2023
Native Art Voices of the 4 Corners with Delbert Anderson
Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Navajo jazz musician Delbert Anderson “clings to culture” as he creates his jazz improvisation music while fostering youth of the community, and preserving his culture within the Four Corners. Anderson's song “Groove Warrior” leads the path to new inspirations.
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Native Art Voices of The 4 Corner with Jasper Littletree
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Jasper Littletree is a Navajo elder mixed media artist from Kirtland, NM. He has many mediums he works in including painting, ceramics, and most recently silversmithing.
For this interview, Mr. Littletree dialogued about his many interests in the Arts and also discussed the history of his family surname. This podcast is unique, as Jasper
shares some of this experience via the Navajo language.
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Alyssa Begay
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
A Navajo woman n business owner of Bluehorse Real Estate from the Farmington community. Alyssa is a master in the art of real estate and organizing, creating inspirational spaces and celebrating Native American women artists.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Native Art Voices of The 4Corner with Shaun Beyale
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Venaya Yazzie Interview comic book artist Shaun Beyale
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Native Art Voices of The Four Corners with Dr. Lloyd Lee, PhD
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Dr. Lloyd Lee Ph.D. is an educator and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He has written several academic books on the subject of the Navajo people, their identity, and Navajo nationalism. He is also an organizer of the annual Diné Studies Conference. He believes in telling the true narrative of the modern Navajo people and their rich history.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Native Art Voices Of the Four Corners with AJ Begay
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Host Venaya Yazzie Interviews Artist AJ Begay
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Luke Paul
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Luke is a local mural artist who has worked in many four corners community‘s painting contemporary mural art or what is sometimes referred to as street art for individual businesses and community organizations in Farmington.
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Franco Lee
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
An Apache artist from Shiprock New Mexico, Franco is learning to weave in the Navajo tradition. He is a former chef who has traveled many places making wonderful food-Art based on traditional Apache foods.