Occasional News from the Penfield Gallery

We would like to remind everyone that the Santa Fe Indian Market, operated by SWAIA, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, will run on August 23 - 24. Many of out artists will be present there showing their work.

Edna Leki died within the last few days. She was the matriarch of a well known family of traditional, old style Zuni Pueblo carvers. Her fetishes were closer in appearance to those of her father, Teddy Weahkee's, non-realistic style. Her children, Lena Boone and Dinah Gasper, continue making beautiful old style carvings along with very sleek looking fetish necklaces. Edna's son, Anderson Weahkee, does not currently carve, but in the past he has made strong fetish carvings of bears and other animals.

A photograph of a traditional Navajo Sandpainting by Frank
Martin, "Whirling Logs with Sun, Moon and Sacred Guardians", will appear in a new college psychology textbook, Personality, by Lawrence Pervin, to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

Today new fetishes from Marnella Kucate and Michael Coble were added to the website. Sandpaintings by Orlando and Sammy Myerson, Frank Martin and War Eagle were posted. , Work by a new sandpainter from a famous sandpainting family, Rozena Ben, was also added. And finally, a new storyteller figure from Tony Dallas, Hopi, was added.

Today new fetishes by Ricky Laahty, Stewart Quandelacy, Andres Quandelacy, Alonzo Esalio, Donovan Laiwakete, Leland Boone, Calvert Bowannie, Delvin Leekya and Jayne Quam were added to the website. Tomorrow look for more new fetishes as well as sandpaintings and a storyteller.

Acoma potter, Judy Lewis, was in our gallery yesterday, July 31. We bought a few friendship bowls/seed pots with children adorning them. They are $60 each, and will post a couple on the site soon.