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September 5, 2022


President’s Message – Welcome Back!

September starts the new Guild year. It kicks off with our first monthly Guild meeting on Wednesday, Sept 21st.  Heard Director & CEO David Roche will be our featured speaker. Once again we will have breakfast goodies served. They will be provided by the Las Guias class of 2022. The social hour starts at 9:30 am, while the meeting will begin at 10:00 am.

Here is a preview of two major projects that the Guild will be undertaking this year.

Heard Museum New Website Project
The Guild Board approved a special committee to be part of the Heard Museum’s new website project. The goal is to create a more efficient state of the art website.  Diane Leonte is the Guild committee chair.   She will update us on this exciting project at our monthly meetings.

New Las Guias Training Program
We will be developing a new Las Guias training program using the latest technologies, like video training. The existing program has been in place for over 30 years. The Museum has assigned Diana Pardue to collaborate with us on this project.  Linda Hefter will be the Guild chair. The goal is to have a new training program in place for the 2023 fall class.

This will be an exceptional year of innovation and change.

John


Monthly Guild Meeting

Monthly Guild Meeting
September 21st, 2022
9:30 Social with Refreshments |
10:00 Meeting Speaker: David Roche


Heard Museum Guild 2022 Short Course…
Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Tuesdays September 27, October 4 & October 11, 2022
Location: Monte Vista Room, Heard Museum
Instructor: Linda Hefter, Heard Museum Senior Docent
Facilitator: Jackie Stubbs
Short Course Fee: $45

Come meet the peoples who have lived and thrived in the Southwest from Prehistoric to Current times. The three-part course will include an exciting overview of the land, culture and history of both the ancient peoples of the Southwest and the federally recognized tribes and pueblos who call Arizona and New Mexico home today.

Session Three on October 11 will also include an introduction to the American Indian Fine Art Movement.

Each of the three sessions will conclude with a 30 to 40 minute tour of the Heard Museum exhibits and sculpture. Whether you have lived in the desert for years or are new to the Southwest, don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding and appreciation of this special place we all call Home.

For more information email Jackie Stubbs at edcoordinator@heardguild.org.


Head Guild Presents Launches Indigenious Visions: Marquee Artists Series!

Have you wondered how your favorite artist designs their works of art?

How they learned their craft? Whose work influences them? Or what inspires them?

If you are intrigued by the creative process and wish to attend in-person, up close demonstrations by notable American Indian artists, mark your calendars now for a 4-part series of exceptional programs!

Heard Guild Presents! is excited to bring you this new, cultural, educational opportunity for the 2022-2023 Guild Year.

Series One – Thurs., October 27, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm
Steele Auditorium
Featuring Kathleen Wall

Kathleen is an award-winning Jemez Pueblo potter who creates whimsical figure in Native clay and in bronze, as well as mixed media works. Producing her first storyteller when she was 8, Kathleen is descended from a long line of ceramic artists and has supported herself as a working artist from the age of 17.

After high school she went on to receive formal training at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and currently has a studio at Jemez Pueblo.

 


Series Two – Wed., November 30, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm
Steele Auditorium
Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Teller sisters are highly regarded fifth generation Navajo weavers who grew up weaving Two Grey Hills tapestries, taught by their mother Ruth Teller. Together they wrote Spiderwoman’s Children: Modern Navajo Weavers Today (2018) and How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman (2020). Both women are multi-award winning weavers and frequently conduct weaving workshops, jointly and individually.


Series 3 – Wed., December 14, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm
Steele Auditorium

Ray Tracey 

Ray is a renowned designer of both contemporary and traditional jewelry working in gold, silver and semi-precious stones. As a follow-up to his earlier demonstration fabricating feathers from silver,

Ray will be demonstrating traditional sand casting techniques. In addition, the former Hollywood actor will share, in his own inimitable fashion, stories regarding his life and family.

 

 

 


Series 4 – Wed., January 25, 2023
10:00am – 12:00pm
Steele Auditorium
Tony Abeyta

Tony is a nationally acclaimed Diné artist, best known for his lively mixed media and oil paintings of the New Mexico landscape, ancestral Navajo iconography and American Modernism. The multi-talented artist also creates unique tufa cast silver jewelry.

His work is found in major museums, including the Heard Museum, the Smithsonian’s NMAI and a current exhibit at the Wheelwright Museum focuses on his family’s accomplishments.

 


Series Fees:
Guild Member: $50.00
Museum Member: $60.00
Guests: $20.00/SESSION
RSVP: heardguildpresents@heardguild.org


The Heard Museum Staff Appreciation Event

The Guild is happy to once again have the opportunity to acknowledge our Museum Staff partners at:

The Heard Staff Appreciation Event

Wednesday, Oct. 26, 11:30am – 1:00pm
Monte Vista

This year’s food theme will be BBQ, so we need Guild volunteers help to make our menu yummy and fun.

Please sign up at the September Guild Meeting and tell us what delicious dish you would like to bring. Think Potato Salad, Coleslaw, Chips, Baked Beans, Smores or any of the foods you enjoy at your BBQ’s (and let us know if you plan to attend).

Volunteers are needed on Wednesday, 10/26
9:00 – 12:00
&
12:00 – 3:00

Please bring dishes through the side door of Monte Vista any time after 9:00am on Wednesday.

Thank you.

For questions to volunteer or make a donation, please contact:
Christy Sinclair 480-881-3898 christysinclair29@gmail.com
Connie Thornton 602-283-4232
Conniethornton37@yahoo.com


The Annual Las Guias TOUR TUNE-UP Returns

Tuesday, November 1, 2022
9:00am – 12:30pm
Steele Auditorium
1:30pm – 2:30pm – Optional Refresher Tours in Galleries

After a two year COVID pause Las Guias will hold its annual Fall Tour Tune Up. The Tune Up is the once a year meeting of all the guides.

What a great opportunity to mingle with your fellow Las Guias and be brought up to date on new exhibits.  Always great fun!

Attendance by all Las Guias is highly encouraged. Details & agenda coming soon.

Tune-Up Chairs: Diane Leonte & Sheila Mehlem.


YASS Scheduled for 2023 Plus New Notecards!

The American Indian Youth Art Show + Sale (YASS) will again be held in conjunction with the Heard Guild Indian Fair and Market on March 4-5, 2023 in the Museum’s Monte Vista Room.

Student Art Co-Coordinators Sue Snyder and Stephany Madsen hope to attract a larger group of youth artists for YASS’ second year in 2023.  Full details for teachers and students will be on the Guild website soon.

Despite having no student art shows for two years due to Covid, the 2022 YASS attracted 200 youth artists from the southwest and as far away as Florida.  Eleven schools participated and 18 young artists entered individually.  The program awarded nearly $7,000 in prize money to the artists.

It’s not too early to think of volunteering for YASS and other student art activities, which will be needed now through late February and early March as artwork is received, catalogued, and displayed for the big show.

Due to the fine entries at YASS, the Student Art program will be introducing five new notecards to its collection this fall, three from the 2022 show and two from 2019 submissions.  The notecards are in production and should be available soon.  Student Art Notecards will be sold at future Guild meetings as well as at pop-up events during the coming months.

Finally, many thanks to the 15 volunteers who helped with notecards this year and the more than 40 volunteers who helped make the first YASS at the Indian Market so successful.  We’ll count on you in 2023!This is a text block. You can use it to add text to your template.


Heard Museum Announces……
Remodel of the Dorrance Classroom

The Learning & Programs team is very excited to share with the Guild that we are beginning our remodel of Dorrance Classroom this week! We will have new paint, new hardware, new flooring, updated lighting, new ergonomic chairs, new tables on casters for easy repositioning, a new digital monitor, and new state-of-the-art distance learning capabilities.

We are also working to update the children’s courtyard with a bottle filling station, new tables, and updated landscaping under the direction of Jacob Butler. We can’t wait to welcome school-aged students and other learners to the new spaces, and we appreciate your patience as we store some of our supplies in the Dorrance Conference Room.


Save The Date

September 14th / 10am -12pm / Guild Board Meeting / Dorrance Conference Room

September 14th / 1pm – 2:30pm / Fair Committee Chair Meeting / Dorrance Conference Room

September 21st / 10am – 12:00pm / Guild Monthly Meeting / Steele Auditoriium

September 27th / 9:30am-12:30pm / Guild Short Course (NPSW) / Monte Vista

October 4th / 9:30am-12:30pm / Guild Short Course (NPSW) / Monte Vista

October 7th-8th / Museum Remembering the Future Symposium

October 11th / 9:30am-12:30pm / Guild Short Course (NPSW) / Monte Vista

October 12th / 10am -12pm / Guild Board Meeting / Dorrance Conference Room

October 19th / 10am – 12:00pm / Guild Monthly Meeting / Steele Auditoriium

October 26th / 11:30am -1:00pm / Staff Appreciation Lunch / Steele Auditorium

October 27th / 10:00am – 12:00pm / Heard Guild Presents – Indigenous Visions Marquee Artists Series / Featuring Kathleen Wall Steele Auditorium

November 1st /  TBA / Las Guias Tune Up

CHECK OUT OUR CALENDAR ON WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS