~ Peterson Yazzie ~ |
Calling The Sacred |
The Dream Changing Woman Emergence |
"Sacred Emergence" |
"Water Sprinkler" |
"Yei Moon" |
"Crimson Emergence" |
Peterson Yazzie is a Contemporary Navajo artist from Greasewood Springs, Arizona. The Navajo culture and personal life experiences is the foundation of Yazzie's work. Peterson strives to maintain his culture through his paintings that go beyond just being a "Pretty Picture", to "positive and negative realities". He says, "My paintings are expressions of who I am, an individual coexisting between worlds. I use traditional aspects of my culture, to communicate in a contemporary society." |
"Trickster's Dance" |
"Songs At Sunset" |
"Songs Of Harmony" |
"Prayer Between Worlds" |
Peterson Yazzie has participated in several shows in the southwest United States, and has won several awards; some of these are "Most Outstanding Achievement Award", sculpture, Heard Museum Student Art Show; First Place painting, 1999 Gallup Intertribal Indian Ceremonial Poster Contest; Best of Division, painting; Best of Category, painting, "Navajo Market", Museum of Northern Arizona in 2001. Peterson was also awarded the Eiteljorg Museum Student Fellowship in Spring of 2001; Goodman Fellowship Wheelwright Museum in 2003; Best of division, painting, Eight Northern Pueblos Indians Arts and Craft Show in 2004; Honorable Mention, Painting, Santa Fe Indian Market 2005; 2006 Mill Atelier Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center; Best of Classification and Best of Division in Painting, Honorable Mention in Printmaking at 2006 Heard Museum Indian Market. |
"Beneath The Night Sky" |
"Crimson Horizon III" |
"Little Messenger" |
He received an Associates of Fine Arts (2002) and Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree (2004) from the Institute of American Indian Arts, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Yazzie has continued his education for a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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