{"id":16150,"date":"2017-04-06T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/?p=16150"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:00:53","slug":"sharing-native-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/2017\/04\/06\/sharing-native-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Native art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artists showcased at kick-off for Gathering<\/h3>\n

BY JASON MORGAN EDWARDSa
\n<\/strong>SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
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RezArtX organizers Warren Montoya and Shawna Sunrise stand in front of several pieces of art presented at the \u201cFun-raiser\u201d party in downtown Albuquerque last Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ALBUQUERQUE<\/strong> \u2014 Several Naive artists were showcased at the peview and fundraising party, officially opening the Gathering of Nations Powwow festivities last Friday in downtown Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

The Rezilience Experience held its 2017 Preview Party\/Fun-Raising that featured three hours of live painting, poetry slamming and music.<\/p>\n

The organization, founded by Warren Montoya, Santa Ana\/Santa Clara, states its mission as being \u201ca proactive force that cultivates opportunities for people to create, build, be uplifted, and find healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montoya said the concept has been developing over years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really just wanted to do something on my own terms, for my own communities,\u201d he said. \u201cIt started evolving into working with other people, with other organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

He found like-minded people to accomplish a common goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re amazing individuals with major skills,\u201d he said. \u201cAll other indigenous peoples, along with our other heritage \u2013<\/p>\n

Chicano \u2013 everybody connected on this idea of wanting to build our communities in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among those that participated in the FunRaiser was Din\u00e9 artist Vanessa Bowen who does graphic design, web design, painting and works as a disc jockey. She was invited to participate because of her painting style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve live-painted since high school,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this is my first Rezil- ience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowen does mainly commissioned and privately funded work. The paint- ing she did during the Fun-Raising event was auctioned off to benefit the organization\u2019s future shows. Although she has a collection of works that she\u2019s done for herself, she said she\u2019s done work for people who want her paint- ings, usually portraiture, but whatev- er inspires her.<\/p>\n

Bowen\u2019s work can been viewed or purchased at: https:\/\/bowencreative.co\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another soon-to-be-famous artist, George Alexander, Muscogee Creek, also participated in the live-paint. Alexander bills himself as just an artist. He has had a relatively short career as a painter, only five years, but the recent Institute of American Indian Arts graduate is already getting attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got accepted into the Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His current collection can be found at https:\/\/www.rationalmindsstudio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RezArtX preview rolls out welcome mat for indigenous art experience<\/h3>\n

BY COLLEEN KEANE<\/strong>
\nSPECIAL TO THE TIMES<\/p>\n

A LBUQUERQUE<\/strong> \u2013 An upbeat \u201cFun-raising\u201d preview party held last Friday night at a downtown hotspot gave a great taste of what\u2019s to come during this year\u2019s Rezilience Indigenous Arts Experience (RezArtX), April 29-30.<\/p>\n

There was music, dancing, paintings in the making by wellknown native artists, fashions, poetry, and some of the best brew in town.<\/p>\n

As reggae-rock band Innostate set up, DJ Way Fonkey, Jemez, warmed up the cozy interior of the DUEL Brewery with drum-rocking sounds.<\/p>\n

Throughout the creative mix, RezArtX executive director War- ren Montoya, Santa Ana\/Santa Clara, said the events both the preview and upcoming ones, are all about having a good time with family and friends, new and old.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we called it a Fun-raiser,\u201d quipped Montoya referring to Friday\u2019s preview.<\/p>\n

Showcasing some of the RezArtX experiences to come, several artists were busy at work creating on-the-spot paintings and original designs for an art auction that would be held later that night.<\/p>\n

With his paint brush hitting the canvas in tune to the music, a dramatic face of a great, red wolf emerged in a work by Patrick Burnham, Din\u00e9\/Hopi, a painter, musician, and dancer, whose known in the art world as CloudFace.<\/p>\n

Set up next to CloudFace, Vanessa Bowen, Din\u00e9, brought to life a strong indigenous woman through geometric dimensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want her to be powerful, breathtaking \u2013 enough to stop you in your tracks,\u201d she said as she turned her attention back to the canvas she was working on.<\/p>\n

Nearby, renowned Laguna potter Josephine Seymour demon- strated her more contemporary work called Wearable Art.<\/p>\n

Leaning back in her chair, a light illuminated a delicate figure of a lizard Seymour was painting on a brand new Converse tennis shoe.<\/p>\n

Across from her, a striking black and white image of a native elder from the 1920s surfaced as George Alexander, Muscogee<\/p>\n

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\nSPECIAL TO THE TIMES | J. MORGAN EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Noted muralist Joe Stacey completes a portrait during the REZILIENCE Preview Party\/Fun Raiser last Friday in Albuquerque.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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