NMDCA News:

Visit Coronado Historic Site for an artist demonstration from 10 a.m–4 p.m., on the last Saturday of the month, Oct. 25, featuring Hopi artist Kyle Kootswatewa. 

Kyle Kootswatewa will demonstrate Hopi sifter basket making during our monthly artist demonstration series. Sifter baskets were traditionally used for winnowing grain or sifting seeds. Kootswatewa is an enduring practitioner of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and a rising traditional weaver and potter utilizing natural materials. He is of Hopi descent, coming from the Kachina clan in Mungapi, AZ, and his works include plaiting, coil, and wicker basket weaving. His polychrome basketry work utilizes both natural and commercial dyes and his pottery style is inspired by pre-contact Hopi vessels which he creates using prehistoric methods. Kootswatewa fires pottery using both traditional manure and ancestral coal firing.

This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about traditional and contemporary Native art directly from artists representing different Pueblos and Tribes of the Southwest. Included with admission of $7 for adults and free to children 16 and younger, Tribal members, NM disabled veterans, NM foster families, and MNMF and FCJHS members.