Pat Pruit, Laguna Pueblo, won the Best of Show award for the 2017 Santa Fe Indian Market with this zirconium and titanium sculpture. The awards ceremony was held at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center Friday. (Eddie Moore/Journal)
SANTA FE – For Pat Pruitt, winning Best of Show at the 96th annual Santa Fe Indian Market for his zirconium and titanium sculpture, combining modern technique and design with the shape of a traditional pueblo pot — was “trippy.”
“I’m blown away,” said the Laguna Pueblo artist when given the honor by Southwestern Association for Indian Arts leader Dallin Maybee. Pruitt spent nearly 800 hours on the sculpture titled “Sentinel v1.0,” submitted it and “hoped for the best.”
“I don’t think we ever create to say, ‘I want to try and win this,'” Pruitt said when accepting his award Friday afternoon at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. “We create out of the passion of our hearts, to be able to do what we do in the matter that we do it. It’s such a blessing.”
He told the Journal he created his vessel as a way to honor his first Indian Market 10 years ago. That year, he made a smaller, stainless steel piece. He wanted to explore the art form again with new materials and new techniques he’s picked up since then.
The show’s Best of Youth winner was also non-traditional, a Post-It note paper sculpture by 17-year-old Rain Scott (Navajo) called “Splendor of the Peacock.” His father, artist Raynard Scott, accepted the award because Rain had to be at school in Arizona.
He said his son spent two years after school and on weekends putting together the mostly-orange paper peacock, and was “astonished” by it the first time his son showed it to him. “It’s a testament to the passion and time the artists put into their pieces,” he said. Rain’s art will be on display at his father’s booth this weekend.
Other market winners include:
Textiles: Lola Cody (Navajo), created big rug — a 14-feet, 8 inches by 8 feet — made of wool from her family’s sheep. The brown and tan colors come from the sheep, whom Cody thanked when she accepted her award. She previously was awarded Best of Show in 2014 and first place in Textiles in 2013. “It’s always an honor to be recognized for your hard work,” she said.
Pottery: Angie Yazzie (Taos Pueblo) made a black, hand-coiled prayer bowl with geometric designs on its rim. She said she was inspired by a book she found of old, 1800s pottery as well as traditional Taos Pueblo and Kiwa pottery. The designs represent each of the directions, Yazzie said.
Moving Images: Steven Paul Judd’s (Kiowa) short film “The Gift,” is about a young boy whose grandfather has recently died and left him with a magical book and a mason jar with fairly-like spirits inside. It was inspired by his own grandfather’s death last year. Judd said he wanted to use the idea of “people living on.”
Basketry: Donald Johnston (Qagan Tayagungin) won for his Baleen basket with a figure of a man kayaking. Each thread of the basket was hand-split and hand-shaved, he said.
Bead Work & Quill Work: Carla Hemlock ( Mohawk) was awarded for her beading on a long red jacket, top hat, and purse.
Diverse Art Forms: Jamie Okuma (Luiseño Shoshone-Bannock) won for her jacket, long shorts and spiked backpack ensemble. The set is separate from the collection she’ll be showing during today’s 3 p.m. Haute Couture Fashion show at the convention center, which will mix Native and Japanese cultures. The beadwork design on the backpack was digitally copied onto the shorts to match. Okuma has won Best of Show three times; 2000, 2002 and 2012.
Paintings, Drawings, Graphics & Photography : Local photographer Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) won for her large-scale portrait of a woman wearing a white necklace from the Chumash tribe. Romero was also awarded the Institute of American Indian Arts Alumni Award.
Jewelry: Former pipeline worker Wesley Willie (Navajo) said he switched over to creating jewelry 15 years ago, and was awarded for the first time for a bolo tie and bracelet with Morenci turquoise and other stones.
Pueblo Wooden Carvings: Arthur Holmes’s (Hopi) carving of a Rain Goddess took first place. “Each rain [the Hopi] get is inspiration for farming tradition,” he said, describing the farmers’ typically dry climate. He pointed out the carved figure’s hands. In one, she holds the Hopi people’s offerings, and in the other she has snow, to provide rain. He also took home first in the classification in 2011 and 2012.*
By Megan Bennett / Journal North Reporter 8/19/17
MANIK
Kin 87: Blue Solar Hand
I pulse in order to know
Realizing healing
I seal the store of accomplishment
With the solar tone of intention
I am guided by the power of abundance.
As the mental sphere of the planet, the noosphere can only be made fully conscious if it is a function of the unified field of the human mind operating in universal telepathy.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2016-2017.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)
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