Vol. 12 Presenter: Ramona Sakiestewa
Presenting
How Did That Become A Thing?
Summary
This presentation will explore three disparate points of influence in the work of artist Ramona Sakiestewa—Tourist art/artifact, woven fabric and plastic vegetable bags, and the man bun.
Bio
Artist Ramona Sakiestewa’s work resides in public, private, and corporate collections in the United States and abroad. Her early tapestry work has been collected by the Heard Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, the Cleveland Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Her architectural design work includes the Kurdistan Regional Government project, the Chickasaw Cultural Center, the Tempe Center for the Performing Arts, Marriott Hotels, and the National Museum of the American Indian.
Awards include Honored Artist, National Museum of Women in the Arts; New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Women’s Award; and the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame.
Sakiestewa’s current work still includes architectural design and works on paper. She continues to explore themes that are based in her own culture, nature, divination, physics, and astronomy.