aaaha busy

receiving

judging

preview

receiving was wednesday

got my shit to the sage

sat for like 8 hours with olivia hopenhamf or something who was fucking annoying

ricardo asked me for my number

and i saw all this great art come in--ed noisecat, teri greeves, upton ethelbah, myron ___, summer peters, etc. i know so many by face now haha

judging was thursday

met almost all my judges

rubbed elbows with mary kershaw, emil her many horses, lara evans, karen kramer, tatiana lomaheftewa-singer, ryan rice--all the museum people. and some artists like fidel bahe who wrote me in as his choice for the Smile award, charmae shields nasteway, susan billy :)

definitely tried to meet everyone but it failed because i overslept x-x

tried to talk to others like gov george rivera, cathy notarnicola, and bronwyn fox but im too shyyy

toook alll day, watched the best of each class, including film

best classification winners:

Chris Pruitt (Jewelry), Jody Naranjo (Pottery), Duyani Reynolds-Whitehawk (Painting/2D/Graphics), Arthur Holmes (Katchina Carvings), Marcus Wall (Sculpture), Lynda Teller Peter (Textiles), Jamie Okuma (Diverse Arts), Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty (Beadwork/Quillwork), Valerie Calabaza (Youth), Benny Klain (Film), and Jeremy Frey (Basketry)

preview:

best of show goes to

Jeremy Frey for his amazing black ash basket, he also won at the heard this year! wow! and he's only been weaving for 10 years and he's 31! so excitingggg

met a ton of people like andrea hanley (berlin gallery/heard museum), john Vanausdall (Eiteljorg director), steven karr (Southwest museum director), teresa willis, and kevin gover (nmai director!)

then ran into Dr. Letitia Chambers, the heard museum director, or Titia, as Kitty introduced me to her

wowwww so many people

introduced myself to the very cool collector bill wiggins

im too shy to really network sigh >_>

interesting native art collecting symposium, must do research about university of oklahoma and this famous collector....

then i met jane mccarthy, a volunteer who promised to connect me to rafael, someone who knows all 300 galleries in chelsea

need to remind corey to connect me to those new york met people

also met corey's artist friend who said i was hot haha

steve minkler was the best part of my preview because he ran up to his photograph and said I DID IT, I DID IT

then stayed for HOURS milking the public and making chit chat. was sooo funny :)

then i talked to jeremy frey, who is really cute actually, and his brother who was nice

then the lights int eh convention center went out because of the thunderstorm. INSANITY! i thought when they came back on, all the jewelry would be gone and the basket gone hahaha. we had a good laugh about it haha

well i finally got back to the room when janet hoffmann (sp) and tilden hoffmann gave me a ride back to the hotel and told me about their 13 cats. seriously, indian market man.

for the record,

the works in the art contest put in that room

made the best art show i could never find in any other museum or gallery

these objects were the best of these artists, and i could feel the love, care, precision, in each piece, in each person's hand. it was amazing, and these were all center pieces as far as im concerned.