{"id":26106,"date":"2021-07-11T23:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoenixvalleyreview.com\/?p=26106"},"modified":"2021-07-11T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:56:22","slug":"visit-a-beautiful-exhibition-small-wonders-at-heard-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixvalleyreview.com\/visit-a-beautiful-exhibition-small-wonders-at-heard-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit a beautiful exhibition “Small Wonders” at Heard Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heard Museum<\/a><\/strong> is home to one of the most extensive collections of American Indian art in the United States!<\/p>\n

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heard.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It features some 40,000 fine artworks and cultural artifacts<\/strong>, with a focus on tribes of the Southwest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Museum you can explore traditional and contemporary works \u2014 from Hopi katsina dolls<\/strong> and Navajo textiles<\/strong> to Navajo and Zuni jewelry<\/strong> and Southwestern ceramics<\/strong> from prehistory to the present \u2014 throughout spacious exhibit galleries, a contemporary art gallery, the outdoor sculpture gardens, trading post-style shop and more.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re inviting you to see the exhibit “Small Wonders”<\/a><\/strong>. This exhibit provides the opportunity to see a range of intricately made small-format works including jewelry (rings, brooches, earrings and buckles)<\/strong> and specialty items such as silver seed pots, fetishes or stone carvings<\/strong>, and silver items in miniature<\/strong>. Each is shaped in silver, gold or from a variety of gemstones, and all are from the Heard Museum\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n

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Darrell Jumbo (Navajo) b. 1960. ‘The Queen\u2019s Pot’, 2005 Coral, sugilite, silver. \/ heard.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some examples of the little treasures in the exhibition are the miniatures fabricated in silver. Some of the miniatures made by jeweler Shawn Bluejacket (Shawnee)<\/strong> include a treehouse with a removable roof that is fully equipped with a slide and a miniature table with two chairs. The table is also hinged and transforms into a small container. When opened, it reveals a bundle of carrots that Bluejacket painted on the interior. Other miniatures include a silver yo-yo by Daniel Sunshine Reeves (Navajo)<\/strong>, a silver teapot with coral inlay by Darrell Jumbo (Navajo)<\/strong>, and silver spoons by Kenneth Begay (Navajo)<\/strong> and Awa Tsireh (San Ildefonso Pueblo)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For those who enjoy jewelry, there is an assortment of brooches, many in animal or insect shapes, as well as complex figurative works by Denise Wallace (Aleut)<\/strong> and more traditional shapes in silver with inset turquoise.<\/p>\n

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Liz Wallace (Navajo\/Washoe\/Maidu) b. 1975. Brooch, 2008 Black pearl, opal, plique \u00e0 jour, silver, 14-k gold. \/ heard.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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