CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes ...

In Mrs. Ullrich and Miss Parlavecchio’s Social Studies class at the Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark , the fifth grade students created their own versions of a Navajo Sand Painting. After having ...

15 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. (38.4 x 46.4 cm.), frame: 26 x 32 x 1 in. 66 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm.

According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they ...

Emmi Whitehorse, Light Shines Through Water, 2024; mixed media on canvas, 60 x 90 in. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan For over 40 years, the wild landscape of the Southwest has been a rich ...

"Filmed entirely on the Navajo Reservation." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!939103~!0#focus ...

The paintings were spread flat on the floor, surrounded by tiny fences. Gallerygoers threaded among them at Colorado Springs last week like children in a greenhouse, fascinated by things they never ...

Carlos Rosales-Silva’s first solo show in New York City, “Sunland Park,” is a collection of paintings on custom shaped wood panels inlaid with plastics, paint-sand mixtures, and dyed stones. These ...

The following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Each speck of sand that falls from the grasp of this hand is a carefully calculated movement. When Joe Mangrum isn't creating pieces in galleries ...