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David Sloan Mixed Media

Nominated by Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

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.”

Henrietta Snype Baskets

Nominated by Museum of International Folk Art

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.

Jaycee Nahohai Ceramics

Nominated by School for Advanced Research

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.

Marlene Nielsen 3D Art

Nominated by Institute of American Indian Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

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.

Martha Arquero Ceramics

Nominated by Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

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.

Rita Padilla Haufmann Textiles

Nominated by Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

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 fiveband pattern and the use of three or sometimes seven panels.

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