Contemporary Diné Weaving with Velma Kee Craig
Thursday
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
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Please note that this event has already taken place.
In tandem with the UAMA exhibition Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney, Velma Kee Craig (Diné) will give a gallery talk on contemporary Indigenous weaving.
Craig is Assistant Curator at the Heard Museum and a textile artist who teaches Diné weaving workshops across Phoenix. She has co-curated multiple Heard Museum exhibitions, including Substance of Stars, Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles and Toward the Morning Sun: Navajo Pictorial Textiles from the Jean-Paul and Rebecca Valette Collection.
This event is free and open to the public.
With questions about access or to request any disability-related accommodations at this event — such as ASL interpreting, closed-captioning, wheelchair access, or electronic text, etc. — please contact Visitor & Member Services Lead Myriam Sandoval, 520-626-2087.