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SWAIA: Southwestern Association for Indian Arts
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- SouthwesternAssociationfor Indian Arts, Inc.
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- Santa Fe NM
- United States 87504-0969
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- +1.50598352
Description
"Making Babies for Indian Market" by Roxanne Swentzell of Santa Clara Pueblo. This piece was featured on the 2004 Official Santa Fe Indian Market poster. Photo by Wendy McEahern.
Each August for the past eighty years, Santa Fe Indian Market has brought together the most gifted Native American artists from the U.S. with millions of visitors and collectors from around the world. The extended weekend of beauty and celebration ranks as the world's largest and most highly acclaimed Native American arts show and as New Mexico's largest attended annual weekend event.
Santa Fe Indian Market is widely known as the place where Native American art and culture meets the world. As a primary vehicle for showcasing Native American arts, Indian Market also serves as a principal means for advancing the careers of many of today's noted American Indian artists. Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone/Bannock), SWAIA Best of Show winner 2000/2002, states, "SWAIA's Indian Market awards have given me my career." Lonnie Vigil, distinguished micaceous potter from Nambé Pueblo (Best of Show 2001) eloquently describes Indian Market as, "the place where the makers and receivers of our works come together in a special appreciation of the art." Perhaps summing it up for generations of artists who have participated in Indian Market, SWAIA Fellowship Winner Michele Laughing (Navajo) shares, "It has made my journey possible."
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