Message from Mary –
I have a new favorite stop on my morning walks across the museum campus to my office – the studio space where young artists are working with master artists Dan and Arlo Namingha as part of our Namingha Institute. MNA has a long history with the Namingha family of artists, and a strong collection of work by Dan, Arlo, and Michael Namingha, which you can now view online.The ability to browse MNA’s collections online is one of my favorite features of our newly rebuilt website. The address is the same as before – musnaz.org – but the website has many other new features, including easy links to buy ticketsto visit the museum now that we are open six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday, or to sign your kids up for Discovery Summer Camps, which begin June 14. If you want to see the final art created by the Namingha Institute, plan to visit the museum on the afternoon of June 17, when the finished paintings and sculptures will be displayed in the Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard.
We hope to see you here soon.
Thank you for your support of MNA.
Mary Kershaw
Executive Director & CEO
Museum of Northern Arizona
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Now open Tuesday through Sunday
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July 2-4, July 9-11, July 16-18, July 23-25
This year the festival celebrates all Native people of the Colorado Plateau. Each weekend in July we will welcome a different cohort of artists, demonstrators, and performers, as well as different crafts and puppet shows for kids. Get your tickets early, since spaces will be limited.
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June 14-18; June 21-25; July 26-30; August 2-6
What will you do while your little one plays dinosaur tag or watches a butterfly emerge? Camp is the best week of summer for kids and parents. The kids get to explore, play, and create on the museum’s 200-acre campus. Meanwhile, you get your home and sanity back!
Register now before the camps fill up:
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Faith of our Fathers
Friday June , 2 pm streaming on MNA Facebook page
Ed Kabotie reflects on his father’s and grandfather’s lives and artistic careers, and how their legacies inspire his own journey. Ed’s father, Michael Kabotie, was a Hopi silversmith, painter, sculptor, and poet and his grandfather was a celebrated Hopi painter, silversmith, illustrator, potter, author, curator and educator.
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Thursday June 17, 1-4 pm
See the finished or in-process art created during the Namingha Institute. Five students have been working intensely with master artists Dan and Arlo Namingha as part of a short artist residency. For one afternoon this new collection of work will be displayed in the Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard.
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Saving wild plants in our own gardens
Monday June 28, 12 pm livestream on MNA Facebook
As we lose wild habitats, we also lose native plants that have important roles in the ecosystem and traditional uses as food, medicine, dyes, soap, and more. Herbalist Phyllis Hogan will talk about the value of these plants, which can be seen growing in the Michael Moore Native Medicinal Garden, and how we can help protect and propagate them. This talk will be streamed on Facebook.
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Missed a program? It might be online.
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June 18, 2021
$75 MNA members/$95 nonmembers
Join geologist Kent Colbath on one of his favorite short hikes, to a spectacular amphitheater created by a steam explosion in a volcanic cone about 700,000 years ago. Erosion sculpted the black, red and yellow eruptive materials into hoodoos, slot canyons, and other exotic landforms. Sign up online.
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First Fridays at 2:30 pm via Facebook Live
MNA educator Mari Soliday presents a short education program, including activities to try at home. Past programs can be found in the Family Friday playlist on the MNA YouTube channel and in the video section of the MNA Facebook page.July 2 – Youth artists at the Heritage Festival
August
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These tracks were discovered in November 2020 at a construction site just a couple miles down the road from the museum. The prints are preserved in red sandstone from the Moenkopi Formation, which is estimated to be early to middle Triassic in age (252 to 235 million years). Paleontologist Dr. Dave Gillette will be studying the tracks to determine what left them. Now that they are on view in the Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard, you can come study them too.
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This exhibition features paintings, photographs, and pottery by six women artists from 1900 to 1940. We’ve shared these art pieces on the MNA Facebook page and now you can watch an online tour with Alan Petersen, but seeing the art in person is so much better. With our advance ticketing system, you can reserve your time to visit the museum and experience this art as it was meant to be seen.
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Created more than a decade ago by Hopi artists Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie, these large-scale paintings tell a story of the human journey through cycles of chaos and discord to places of wholeness and balance. Watch a gallery tour with Dr. Kelly Hayes-Gilpin and Ed Kabotie, read about the exhibit in Mountain Living, then make plans to come see the exhibit.
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Drink in the beauty
Elevate your coffee break with a ceramic mug designed by a Pueblo artist. Originally commissioned in 2015 to commemorate the first Native American-owned Starbucks, these mugs designed by Pueblo potters immediately became popular. Shumakolowa Native Arts continues to produce the mugs, with proceeds supporting the artists, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. Stop by the shop during regular museum hours or browse online anytime. Every purchase supports MNA and the artists.
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Carving colorful creations
Birds and butterflies adorn this sweet little red bowl by Santa Clara Pueblo potter Candelaria Suazo. Sgraffito Candelaria collects and prepares pottery within her pueblo, before shaping the pots and smoothing it with a polishing stone. Then she carves her designs into the pot to create the two-tone finish. For more sculptures, paintings, and wearable art, visit the shop online, or in person when the museum is open.
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Select Museum of Northern Arizona to support MNA with every purchase when you buy through Amazonsmile.
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