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2004 September/October Galleries
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 Kiva Fine Art
Works by Navajo painter David K. John and Hopi painter Dan V. Lomahaftewa are prominently featured in the gallery through October, while other Native painters, sculptors, potters, jewelers, basket weavers and wood workers also consistently maintain a strong presence.
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NMAI Opens at Long Last
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 As the golden sun rises over the U.S. Capitol, its first rays strike the gentle slope of the National Museum of the American Indian's shallow dome. It then illuminates the graceful curve of an extreme cantilever sheltering the outdoor welcoming area. This fluid, curvilinear building, reminiscent of a Western mesa, is not only golden by reflection, but intrinsically, as the rough-hewn Kasota stone retains its warm amber hue after the sun has passed. Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
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The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser
By Gregory Schaaf, Ph.D. (Cherokee)
| Published 09/1/2004
| September/October , Painting , Photography/Graphics , Sculpture , Gregory Schaaf, PhD. , Museums , US Travel , Apache , Chippewa
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 Two giants in 20th-century Native American art, Allan Houser (19141994) and George Morrison (19192000), are being honored in a lead inaugural exhibition at the brand-new National Museum of the American Indian. "Native Modernism: The Art of George Morrison and Allan Houser" will open Sept. 21, 2004 in Washington, D.C. as one of five major shows at the new facility. The exhibition will display approximately 200 works of art in several media.
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