Message from Mary –
If you drive by the museum you’ll soon see large tents going up in the parking lots, an obvious sign that we are busy preparing for the largest celebration of Colorado Plateau cultures we’ve ever held.
This Heritage Festival has been a long time coming. MNA hasn’t hosted a festival like this since 2019, or perhaps ever. The festival has moved completely outdoors, allowing it to spread across the museum campus. There were many reasons to move the festival into the fresh air, and one was that we are able to make space for nearly 200 artists from the Acoma, Navajo, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Jemez, Laguna, Yavapai Apache, and Zuni communities. Of those, 34 are attending the festival either for the first time ever, or the first time in many decades. They bring an exciting diversity of art and traditions. With the artists outdoors, the museum exhibits will be open, as will the Easton Collection Center. There will be fun for everyone, whether you want to try playing Zuni games, learn to use natural dyes, or listen to insightful talks by cultural representatives.
With the monsoon moisture gathering around the mountains, it seems like the perfect time for people to gather too, celebrating our part in this place.
I hope to see you soon at the museum,
Mary Kershaw
Executive Director & CEO
Museum of Northern Arizona
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Closed to the public on Friday, July 1 to prep for Festival
Members: RSVP to the July 1 members preview
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2022 Namingha Institute
After two weeks working with master artists Dan Namingha and Arlo Namingha, the five Namingha Institute residents presented a showcase of their art and gave poignant speeches on the powerful impact the experience had on them and their work. Kudos to Joshua Wells, Jared Dominique, Cora Talkington, Carlon Ami, Allene Dugan. We look forward to watching their art careers develop. The Namingha Institute is supported by an endowment from the Philip M Smith Trust.
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Fresh paint
In June four buildings received fresh coats of paint thanks to volunteers from a program called GEAR UP, which stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. They chose MNA for their volunteer work project this summer and Volunteer Manager Mari Soliday worked with Facilities Director Andy Bryan to prepare a project for them that could be accomplished in the time and truly enhances our campus.
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Thirsty Thursdays
June 23 – Colton Sessions (Folk)
July 28 – Flat Fives (Jazz)
August 25 – Knockabouts (Celtic)
5 – 8 pm, General admission $15, $8 for MNA members
Great music, good friends, fresh air and food – don’t miss these summer evenings in the lovely Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard. The July 28 Thirsty Thursday will include a reading of poetry and essays related to MNA exhibits. Email khutchison@musnaz.org if you wish to read.
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Festival Mainstage Performances
July 2 & 3
10:30 am – Dineh Tah Dance Group
12:30 pm – Polequaptewa Dance Group
2:30 pm – Zuni Olla Maidens
4:00 pm (Saturday only) –The Xoyote Soldier Tour featuring Tha Yoties and Sage Bond
Also watch for unlisted popup performances at surprise locations.
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Festival talks and presentations
July 2 & 3
9:45 am – Violence in the Archives and the Politics of History: Navajo Livestock Reduction, 1937-1959 with Dr. Jennifer Denetdale (Navajo)
11:30 am – Symbolism in Zuni Art with Kandis Quam (Zuni)
11:45 am – What makes our Hopi Community Thrive? with Iva Honyestewa (Hopi)
1:30 pm – Navajo Dye Presentation with Roy Kady (Navajo)
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Family Activities
July 2 & 3
10:00 am – Dragonflies Tale Puppet Show
2:00 pm – Dragonflies Tale Puppet Show
All day – Zuni Pueblo Games with Elroy Natachu Jr. (Zuni)
All day – Painting with Art of the People
All day – Meet Hopi-R2 and its makers
All day – Kids crafts
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Artist Market
July 2 & 3, 9 am – 4 pm
Nearly 200 artists, representing Acoma, Apache, Diné (Navajo), Havasupai, Hualapai, Pai, Ute, Yavapai, and Zuni and all forms of visual art, including jewelry, pottery, basketry, katsina carvings, weaving, clothing, and more.
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Collection Center Open House
July 2 & 3, 10 am – 2 pm
A special opportunity to go inside the state-of-the-art Easton Collection Center, see Native art and artifacts, and learn how the museum cares for objects, including providing safe haven for artifacts evacuated from the path of recent fires.
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Festival Parking & Shuttle
July 2 & 3, 9 am – 5 pm
Park at the Flagstaff High School at Elm and Kendrick. Twin Arrows Casino will be running free shuttle buses from there to and around the festival grounds. No vehicle parking is available at the museum, but there is a drop-off zone, bike parking, and spaces reserved for those with handicap permits. Mountain Line bus #5 also stops at the festival entrance.
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Tour of Meteor Crater
September 18, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Get an unusually up-close introduction to the world’s best-preserved asteroid impact sites with one of its leading geologists, Dr. David Kring. Dr. Kring has been conducting research at the crater for about 30 years and is also one of the well-known discoverers of the Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico, linked to the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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Tour of Red Mountain Volcanic Cinder Cone
September 24, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
This easy, 2.5 mile guided hike takes you into the Red Mountain amphitheater, a gash into the side of a 600,000-year-old volcano. The trip is led by geologist Dr. Kent Colbath, who will share insights into the dramatic rock features you will see.
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Petrified Forest National Park
October 22, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Petrified Forest is one of the most evocative destinations in Northern Arizona for bringing life to the ancient geologic past. Led by Dr. Kent Colbath, this trip will include a guided hike with park paleontologist Dr. Adam Marsh.
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Bursting with color, this retrospective exhibit presents the full spectrum of art by Baje Whitethorne Sr., a visual storyteller acclaimed for his colorful paintings full of life and energy. Born and raised on the Navajo Reservation, his art often depicts the landscape around his family home near Shonto and the harmony of the Navajo way of life. Click here to watch Baje explain the meaning behind the title of his exhition.
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For hundreds of years people have responded to the beauty of Glen Canyon by creating beauty of their own. This exhibition presents an artistic narrative crafted around human responses to the natural world, focusing on the twenty-first-century photographers who visited the canyon and lake to assess it as the dammed waters rose, then fell again due to drought.
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These tracks were discovered in November 2020 at a construction site just a couple miles down the road from the museum. The prints are preserved in red sandstone from the Moenkopi Formation, which is estimated to be early to middle Triassic in age (252 to 235 million years). Now they are on view in the Jaime Major Golightly Courtyard.
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MNA Discovery Camps
Dates July 11-15, July 18-22, July 25-2(scholarships available)
The older kids get to do the most exciting things at camp. In Eco-explorers they will use the garden, forests, meadows, and wetlands as natural laboratories. Artscapes is equal parts art and engineering and in Incr-Edibles campers get to eat their lessons. Find details and links to register your child at https://musnaz.org/summer-camps/
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This Thunderbird vase by Hopi-Tewa artist Garrett Maho is an example of how he uses traditional methods and materials to create, fire, and paint unique ceramic art. Maho was taugh by his grandmother, Marilyn Mahle, and his aunt, Gloria Mahle and has been working in clay since 1996.
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The Journey of Life puzzle series created by Monica Nuvamsa was inspired by her life experience. The puzzle images map a two year journey of spiritual growth for the Hopi/Acoma/Havasupai artist from the Hopi village of Songoopavi. Find more pottery, as well as jewelry, baskets, and books at the Museum Giftshop, where every purchase supports MNA and the artists.
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Select Museum of Northern Arizona to support MNA with every purchase when you buy through Amazonsmile.
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