Landscapes March 31, 2010

Wide Ruins and crystal style rugs will anchor the third installation, which will focus on the Southwestern landscape that has influenced Navajo cultural and artistic traditions. Many of the textiles are dyed with plants from the Navajo reservation and special emphasis will be given to the art of natural dyeing and the aesthetic impact of color. Motifs such as lightning lines and spider woman crosses are embedded in designs related to cultural stories about the making of the first loom and the beginning of weaving. The relationship to the landscape still influences many of the designs created by contemporary Navajo weavers.