Native Art Voices of The Four Corners with Dr. Lloyd Lee, PhD

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.

Native Art Voices Of the Four Corners with AJ Begay

Host Venaya Yazzie Interviews Artist AJ Begay 

Native Art Voice of The Four Corners with Venaya Yazzie

Venyaya Yazzie is a Navajo/Hopi Multidisciplinary artist from the eastern region of the Navajo reservation. She works in Tootie acrylic paints and is also a poet and seamstress. She is a board member of the Northwest New Mexico arts Council and strives to educate the community about the cultural people and philosophies of the tribes in the four corners.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Luke Paul

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.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Franco Lee

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.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Aretta Begay

A Navajo wool artist who specializes Wool Felting and Navajo weaving techniques. She is also the Director of Sheep is Life, non-profit organization and a resident of Shiprock New Mexico.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Victoria Yazzie.

Victoria J YazzieA Farmington textile artist who works in creating cultural clothing of the southwest people, she also is a jewelry maker and crafting artist.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Shawn Ahkeah

Shawn Ahkeah is a Shiprock-based artist on the Navajo Nation. He is a Navajo Realist painter whose works concerns concepts of Navajo cultural life as his specialty. He is a veteran of the United States military.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Michael Scott.

Michael Scott, a younger generation media artist to focus says on photography. He has roots in the comic book art and recreates the images of such characters in his photography against the natural landscape of the Shiprock community he also is a Podcaster.

Native Art Voices of the Four Corners with Tina Deschenie

Host Venaya Yazzie speaks with Native American artists from throughout the Four Corners Region every 3rd Thursday of the month at 9:30am.This month's guest is Tina Deschenie, a writer, poet, and member of the Diné nation.