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Linda Lomahaftewa’s bold Hopi landscapes unite the ancient world with the contemporary in a symphony of shape and color.
“The Moving Land: 60+ Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa,” featuring 70 paintings and works on paper, is open at Santa Fe’s IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. The exhibition runs through July 17.
Linda Lomahaftewa, “Healing Prayers for a Pandemic Universe (detail),” mixed-media, 2020, 8-by-10 inches. (Courtesy of The Iaia Museum Of Contemporary Native Arts)
Best known for her prints, the show marks Lomahaftewa’s first solo exhibition in a retrospective spanning her career from high school to retirement.
“We have works from when she was 15 years old,” said Lara Evans, guest curator and associate professor of art history. “In the beginning, she was experimenting with Abstract Expressionism. Then she breaks out into the aesthetic of explosive mark-ma
MacKenzie Scott has altered modern philanthropy with her massive $4.2 billion donation. Photo credit: AFP
Noted philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has announced that she will give nearly $4.2 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations and institutions to combat the devastating economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Six tribal colleges are among the recipients, including Blackfeet Community College, Chief Dull Knife College, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Navajo Technical University, Salish Kootenai College, and Turtle Mountain Community College. “This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling,” Scott stated. “Economic losses and heath outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.”