LAWRENCE - Prize winners and participants in the Twelfth Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show juried competition have been announced by show officials.
Opening Sept. 9, the juried exhibit will present 171 works by 83 artists representing 49 tribes and 15 states. Prize money totaling $7550, awarded in two- and three-dimensional categories, includes two best-of-show Awards of $1500 each, 14 merit awards of $300 each, and $350 in youth competition awards. This year's judges were Barry Coffin and Suzan Shown Harjo.
This year's award recipients included best-of-show winners Sandra Okuma, two-dimensional art, and Joseph Savage, three-dimensional art.
Merit award winners for two-dimensional works are: Marcus Cadman, Gordon M. Coons, Tom Fields, Benjamin Harjo Jr., Linda Lomahaftewa, Victoria McKinney, and Luther Narcomey. For three-dimensional works, merit award winners are: Mary Annette Clause, Pam Lujan-Hauer, Linda Lou Metoxen, Patricia Baxter Shebola, Joseph Skywolf, Ken Romero and Sandra Walker. Honorable mention for two-dimensional works went to Marcus Cadman, Dolores Purdy Corcoran, Johnnie Diacon, Linda Haukaas, Jesse W. Henderson, Gwen Coleman Lester, Allen Mose, Marilyn Russell-Bogle, and Sharon Rae Sahlfeld. Honorable mention for three-dimensional works went to George Blackwood, Charlotte B. Herr, Crystal Julian, Roderick Kaskalla, Reuben Kent, and Patrick Scott.
This year's youth competition represents the work of nine young American Indian artists. Winners for ages 13 to 16 were: Michael Champagne, best-of-show; Candice Seymour, second place. Winners for ages 12 and under were: Faith Coyote, best-of-show; Shandiin Woodward, second place; and Stephanie Ebke and Whitney Ebke, both third place.
The Lawrence Indian Arts Show begins at the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology with a $35 per person benefit opening at 7:30 pm, Friday, Sept. 8. First-nighters will have the opportunity to preview and purchase art works before the juried show opens to the public on Sept. 9. Reservations for the benefit opening can be made by calling the museum at (785) 864-4245. The show and sale will remain on exhibit until Oct. 22. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will be an admission charge to the museum during the time of the exhibit ($3 for adults, $1 for students, free for children under five). All proceeds from the admission charge will go to support the Lawrence Indian Arts Show.
Visitors to the juried competition show and sale will see a wide representation of traditional and contemporary works of American Indian artists.
The Twelfth Annual Indian Market runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. The outdoor market brings to the Midwest over 165 American Indian artists from across the United States. The event will give visitors an opportunity to see and purchase original artworks. Some of the artists will also be demonstrating their art form. Entertainment will be scheduled throughout the day.
The Lawrence Indian Arts Show creates an opportunity for the public to view and gain an appreciation of works currently being produced by American Indian artists. In both the juried competition and the market, the public will have the opportunity to view the talents and skills of these artists in baskets, beadwork and quillwork, jewelry, kachina dolls and other wood carvings, pottery, sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, and graphics. Many new artists are involved in this year's juried competition and market.
Other events scheduled Sept. 9 to Oct. 22 are an exhibit of recent works by Navajo painter Anthony Emerson at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets; an exhibit of three-dimensional works in traditional media by contemporary American Indian artists at the KU Spencer Museum of Art; a flute and drum performance and a talk at the Lawrence Public Library; and a metalsmithing workshop with Santo Domingo silversmith Don Nieto at Haskell Indian Nations University.
For additional show information, write or call Maria S. Martin, Coordinator, Lawrence Indian Arts Show, University of Kansas, Museum of Anthropology, Lawrence, KS 66045; (785) 864-4245.
