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U.S. Artists

“This sampling of folk art from the U.S is sure to entice and educate our market visitors this year with new perspectives on folk art,” says International Folk Art Market CEO Stuart Ashman, who began the tradition of inviting American folk artists to IFAM in 2019. “This is our way to highlight our partnerships with other dynamic cultural institutions in Santa Fe and engage them more deeply in our global market community.”

The American folk artists participating in 2021 were nominated by IFAM's six partnership institutions, expanded from five last year. This year's partners included IAIA and its Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, due in large part to the organizations' shared focus on innovation and the Innovation Inspiration initiative funded by Jo Ann and Bob Balzer.

The other five partnership institutions include Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; Museum of International Folk

Art; Museum of Spanish Colonial Art; School for Advanced Research; and Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

RITA PADILLA HAUFMANN

(Museum of Spanish Colonial Art) Textiles

Rita Padilla Haufmann is from Tesuque, New Mexico. A self-taught spinner, dyer and weaver, she trained in textile work as she transitioned out of a 26-year career in education. She works exclusively with Churro wool, which she washes, cards, spins, dyes and weaves by hand. Her weavings are based on the traditional Banded Rio Grande style, including the five-band pattern and the use of three or sometimes seven panels.

MARLENE NIELSEN/YUPIK

(Institute of American Indian Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts) 3D Art

Salmon skin is a traditional sewing material for Alaskan Native people in many parts of the state. However, few artists still practice the craft. Marlene Ann Nielsen is Yupik from Kokhanok, Alaska, located on the south shore of Lake Iliamna. Nielsen is self-taught in the art of making baskets, wallets, dolls, masks and jewelry with sockeye salmon skin.

HENRIETTA SNYPE

(Museum of International Folk Art) Baskets

Henrietta Snype is a master sweetgrass basket weaver and member of the Gullah community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Sweetgrass baskets originated in West Africa and were brought to the Gullah Geechee Corridor by enslaved Africans of various ethnic groups. Snype has been weaving, innovating and educating others about sweetgrass baskets since she was 7 years old.

MARTHA ARQUERO/COCHITI PUEBLO

(Museum of Indian Arts and Culture) Ceramics

Martha Arquero was born in 1944 into the Cochiti Pueblo. She has been making pottery since the 1960s and was inspired to continue the family tradition by her mother, Damacia Cordero. She specializes in handmade clay sculptures such as storytellers, mermaids and nativities.

DAVID SLOAN/DINÉ

(Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian) Mixed Media David Sloan is a Diné artist born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He works in multiple mediums, including painting, printmaking, silversmithing and silk-screening. “My art addresses the mixing of cultures and aims to remind people of our connection to nature. I would like to be able to experience more Diné culture and to share it through art.”

JAYCEE NAHOHAI/PUEBLO OF ZUNI

(School for Advanced Research) Ceramics

Jaycee Nahohai is a talented member of the famous

Nahohai pottery family of Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. He gathers clay several miles from the family home at the Pia Mesa clay pit and uses local slips, pigments and mica from the northern pueblos before firing pieces in an electric kiln. He hand-coils each piece and uses natural materials to make paint. Designs are drawn from traditional Zuni imagery.

Artist biographies compiled and written by Anastasia Gumbiner, International Folk Art Market

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