FREE Yanaguana Indian Arts Competition at The Briscoe Museum Downtown Nov eighth
The Briscoe Western Artwork Museum invitations the neighborhood to rejoice Native American Heritage Month on the FREE Yanaguana Indian Arts Competition on Saturday, November 8, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on the museum’s campus on the San Antonio River Stroll. The competition, museum admission and all actions are free, providing a full day of artwork, music, dance, storytelling, hands-on crafts and cultural connection for all ages. Free occasion registration is accessible on-line.
All through the day, visitors of all ages can take pleasure in arts and crafts, meet artists, hear Native American music, study Native American heritage and tradition and discover the Briscoe’s galleries without charge.
Highlights embrace:
A religious blessing by United San Antonio Pow Wow, Inc., a gaggle that works to present Native American folks the chance to take part, follow, educate and alternate tribal traditions amongst all tribes and to enlighten everybody concerning the historical past and tradition of America’s first inhabitants.
A Pow Wow-style drum circle with United San Antonio Pow Wow and Enemy Horse Drumming demonstrating and explaining frequent pow wow dance kinds.
Indigenous storytelling with Joyous Windrider and Rosie Torres, sharing intergenerational tales and motion that deliver Native American tales to life for all ages.
Reside music by Native American artists, together with Tim Blueflint Ramel. An enrolled member of the Unhealthy River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, a federally acknowledged American Indian Tribe, flute participant Blueflint Ramel has opened for and shared the stage with Grammy Award Winner Mary Youngblood and all kinds of artists. He’s additionally an achieved flute and jewellery maker and can reveal his craft all through the day.
See ledger artwork with artist George Curtis Levi showcasing artwork that originated amongst the Cheyenne within the late 1840s. Ledger artwork utilized pages of repurposed file books (ledgers) to depict on a regular basis life. A member of the Southern Cheyenne tribe in Oklahoma, Levi additionally has ties to the Arapaho and Oglala Lakota communities.
See conventional pottery methods of the Caddo Nation with Chase Kahwinhut Earles, a famend Caddo pottery maker who has devoted his craft to reviving and preserving the normal pottery methods of his Caddo Nation ancestors. Earles’ creates intricate, traditionally correct pottery that displays the deep cultural heritage of the Caddo folks, whose pottery custom dates again centuries. His works are celebrated for his or her authenticity, craftsmanship, and connection to Caddo historical past and spirituality.
Shane Hendren, a turquoise professional and a Diné/Navajo jewellery maker who’s a member of the Indian Arts & Craft Affiliation (IACA), a company dedicated to selling the integrity of supplies utilized in native jewellery.
Wayne TaySha Earles, a Caddo carver who creates cultural stonework and stone jewellery impressed by historic Caddo lithic artifacts unearthed largely from the Spiro Mounds in northeastern Oklahoma. Utilizing soapstone, pipestone and alabaster, Earles makes beautiful replications of the ceremonial maces, batons and banner stones turned up by archeologists. He additionally carves stone pendants, necklaces and chokers.
Crafts and enjoyable for all ages embrace ledger artwork, combined media collages, leather-based medallions, basket and loom weaving, a neighborhood weaving basket and creating your personal parfleche case, a pouch sometimes made with rawhide that’s painted with photographs or geometric designs. Plains Indians created the parfleche due to its utility, magnificence and comfort. Different tribes in North America then adopted its use.
Browse a curated number of Native American art work and speak with the artists as they reveal their crafts, together with jewellery, pottery, beadwork and textiles.
Yanaguana = San Antonio River
Named in honor of the Payaya individuals who have been indigenous to the San Antonio space, “Yanaguana” was the phrase they used to explain what’s now generally known as the San Antonio River. The competition has been held yearly for the reason that museum opened and consists of free admission to the Briscoe, making it an ideal approach to rejoice the very important position Native Individuals performed in shaping the West whereas having fun with artwork and artifacts that spotlight Native American historical past.
And So A lot Extra….
Competition-goers also can benefit from the Briscoe’s 14 galleries and its particular exhibition, Going to Texas: 5 Centuries of Texas Maps, exploring the historical past and identification of Texas by way of 66 uncommon and authentic maps from the extraordinary Yana and Marty Davis Map Assortment paired with greater than 25 artworks from personal loans and the Briscoe’s everlasting assortment. The map assortment, on mortgage from the Museum of the Massive Bend at Sul Ross College in Alpine, Texas, reveals how cartography formed perceptions of the area throughout centuries. Spanning practically 500 years, from 1525 to 2006, the gathering is broadly thought to be probably the most necessary Texas cartography collections in existence.
