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Mar. 9–15, 2003

Exhibitions

Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art from the Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C.
July 21, 2002–March 15, 2003
George Gustav Heye Center
New York, New York

Featuring more than 600 masterworks from all 31 states of the Mexican Republic, this exhibition offers a comprehensive view of the most exceptional contemporary folk art of Mexico. Nearly 200 master artists draw from their ancestral traditions, dating back more than 1000 years in some cases. The artists employ a vast array of materials, including clay, wood, straw, leather, feathers, silk, cotton, metals, and stone. This traveling exhibition is organized and sponsored by the Fomento Cultural Banamex A.C. based in Mexico City. The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of Banamex Citigroup. Corono Extra, CONACULTA (National Council for Culture and Arts), Tequila Herradura, and Aeromexico. A catalog is available in the museum shop.


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Ancient Mexican Art from the Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian
July 21, 2002–Summer 2003
George Gustav Heye Center
New York, NY

This exhibition features forty-four pieces from the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian to illustrate the cultural and historical continuity of Mexican art. The objects—most of which have never before been publicly displayed—include ceramic and stone sculpture, bowls, vessels, pendants, masks, and funerary urns. Most date to before the intrusions of non-Native people into Mexico in the 1500s. Several date as far back as 400 B.C.

Ancient Mexican Art provides a window on the world of ancient Mexico, and its objects reveal ancient Native beliefs and traditions. Pendants, bowls, and vessels incorporate images of snakes, scorpions, and especially jaguars, revered as sacred by many indigenous peopoles. Several funerary urns reflect homage to deities, as do wooden and stone-carved objects used during the Mesoamerican ball game.


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The Edge of Enchantment
December 15, 2002–Summer 2003
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

This exhibition presents people from Native communities of the Huatulco-Huamelula region of Oaxaca, Mexico, speaking passionately about their lives, families, histories, beliefs, and dreams.


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Public Programs

Storybook Readings: From the Shelves of the Resource Center
Second Saturday of every month
Resource Center, Second Floor
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

Join us for storybook readings featuring stories about the Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere. For children of all ages.


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Art Talk with Artist Duane Slick
March 14, 2003
Noon
Video Viewing Room, Second Floor
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

Artist Duane Slick Mesquakie/Winnebago) will conduct a visual lecture based on his work in the American Indian Community House Gallery exhibition Four in One.


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Film/Video/Radio

DAILY SCREENINGS: Native Home
February 10–April 27, 2003
Programs start at 1 pm. Repeated Thursdays at 5:30 pm.
Video Viewing Room, Second Floor
George Gustav Heye Center, New York

The Return of Navajo Boy
February 24–March 16, 2003
Presented in cooperation with the 2003 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, March 12–20, 2003.

2000, 52 min. US. Jeff Spitz. When an obscure 1950’s film called Navajo Boy turns up, it leads a contemporary Navajo family to recall its history as the subject of still photos and movie images, and the impact on its life of the uranium mines. This encounter sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the return of the family’s long lost little brother.

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ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL
March 13 & 14, 2003
Program begins at 8 p.m. on both nights
Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue at 7th Street SW
Washington, DC (Metro stop: Smithsonian)

In cooperation with the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum, NMAI presents award-winning Native American productions as part of the District of Columbia’s annual film festival. Admission is free and no reservations are required. Hosts: Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of the NMAI Film and Video Center (FVC) and Barbara Gordon, Film Coordinator, The Hirshhorn Museum.
For more information please call 202-342-2564 or visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org.

March 14: Washington, D.C. premiere of the 2003 national touring festival Video México Indígena/Video Native Mexico. All works in Native Mexican languages and Spanish with English subtitles

Emergence
December 13, 2003
1981, 14 min. US. Barbara Wilk. An animation tells the story of the events leading to the entrance of the Dineh onto the surface of the earth through a number of underworlds. Sacred colors, the cardinal directions, sacred plants, the sacred mountains of the people’s lands inhabited by the sacred beings—all evoke the harmony and spiritual meaning of the Navajo environment.


The Return of Navajo Boy
March 13, 2003
2000, 52 min. US. Jeff Spitz. When an obscure 1950’s film called Navajo Boy turns up, it leads a contemporary Navajo family to recall its history as the subject of still photos and movie images, and the impact on its life of the uranium mines. This encounter sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the return of the family’s long lost little brother.


Video México Indígena
March 14, 2003
2002, 10 min. MEXICO. Ojo de Agua Comunicación. An overview of the dynamic indigenous video producers and organizatiions in the states of Oaxaca and Michoacán in Mexico.


Viko Ndute/Water Festival
March 14, 2003
1995, 22 min. Mexico. Emigdio Julián Caballero (Mixtec). An examination of rain-making ritual and its significance for a Mixtec community in Oaxaca.


Guia Toó/Powerful Mountain
March 14, 2003
1998, 53 min. MEXICO. Crisanto Manzano Avella (Zapotec). In this portrait of the cloud forest ecosystem of his native Sierra Juarez region of Oaxaca, the videomaker shows the arduous way of life of those who live there and work the soil. The energy and vitality of the mountain environment resembles a living entity existing in an ongoing relationship with its human inhabitants.


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