July 26, 1999

ANNUAL LAWRENCE INDIAN ARTS SHOW JURORS NAMED

Margaret Archuleta, Phoenix, and Ruthe Blalock Jones, Muskogee, Okla., will judge both two- and three-dimensional art works entered in the juried competition.

The juried show and sale, one of six that will take place during the annual Indian arts show, will be Sept. 11 through Oct. 24 at the anthropology museum.

Archuleta is the curator of fine art at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. She has curated several major exhibitions at the Heard, including "Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century." Jones serves as the director of the Bacone College art department in Muskogee, Okla. A practicing artist, Jones works in a wide range of media including oil, acrylic, pen and ink and original printmaking.

Other events at this year's Indian arts show will include:

• A benefit opening including an awards ceremony, art preview and sale, silent auction and reception at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at the museum;
• An outdoor Indian market from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 11 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence;
• A five-day hands-on workshop on Acoma Pueblo pottery making with Dolores Lewis Garcia and Emma Lewis Mitchell Sept. 14 to 18 at Haskell;
• An exhibit of recent works by contemporary Navajo Indian weavers from Sept. 10 through Oct. 8 at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets. A reception for artist Kalley Keams will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 18;
• An exhibit of traditional American Indian art from Sept. 11 through Oct. 24 at the Spencer Museum of Art on the KU campus;
• A book discussion series on Native American writers of the 1990s on Sept. 8 and 22 and Oct. 6 and 20 at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont. For more information on this program and to register, call (785) 843-1178.