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The ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING

Was held Sunday, November 7 at 4 PM in the Pueblo.  

The meeting included election of the Board of Trustees,  

presentation of annual reports, and presentation of the

Volunteer of the Year Award and the Kachina Award

for lifetime achievement.  

Those who attended enjoyed an excellent, extensive  potluck dinner .

A CELEBRATION OF THE THREE SISTERS

2nd ANNUAL NATIVE HARVEST FUNDRAISER

October 24, 2009, 3-6 PM

At the Pueblo, Smoki Museum

A traditional native dinner was served and received positive reviews.

The keynote speaker was Donald Nelson whose presentation was enlightening and emotional and entertaining.  

The scheduled keynote speaker had been Michael Kabotie who unfortunately passed away the week before the dinner.  The following summarizes some of the reasons he will be remembered.

Michaelwas born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in his junior year there he was invited to spend the summer at the Southwest Indian Art Project at the Universigty of Arizona. Participants included Fritz Scholder, Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma and Joe Hererra (who became a life long friend and his primary artist mentor).

After high school, Michael attended the University of Arizona, studying engineering. After dropping out of college he held a one-man show at the Heard Museum and his work was on the cover of Arizona Highways magazine.

Both Michael and his father, Fred Kabotie, have been innovators in the Native American Fine Arts Movement, creating paintings that reflect traditional Hopi life in contemporary media. Fred Kabotie was one of the Hopi artists responsible for developing the trademark overlay methods used today by many Hopi silver and goldsmiths. He is also the painter of the Watchtower murals in the Grand Canyon.

Michael uses the overlay technique developed by his father and friends in the 1940s and 50s. You’ll see in his jewelry, however, a distinct style of his own; a style echoed in his paintings.

In 1973, he was a founding member of Artist Hopid, a group of painters experimenting in fresh interpretations of traditional Hopi art forms. This group of five artists worked together for over five years.

Michael’s book of poetry, Migration Tears: poems about transitions was published in 1987 by UCLA. He has lectured across America, in New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland and has taught Hopi overlay techniques at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation, Idyllwild, California for over thirteen years. You can find his works in museums around the world, from the Heard Museum in Phoenix to the British Museum of Mankind in London, England, and the Gallery Calumet-Neuzzinger in Germany..

In recent years Michael has moved into the exploration and production of limited edition prints in lithography, serigraphy, etching and embossings. He has also begun a series of collaborative paintings with Celtic artist Jack Dauben. Jack and Michael exchange canvases back and forth, Jack bringing his celtic images, Michael interweaving the Hopi. The paintings take on a life of their own, merging seamlessly the two cultures.  Humor and social commentary often find their way into Kabotie creations.  Michael’s painting reflects his Hopi mentors, the pre-European Awatovi kiva mural painters and the Sikyatki pottery painters with a contemporary interpretation.