News Release
Heard Museum
The Heard Museum is pleased to announce the awards winners of the 2022 Juried Competition from the Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market, including Best of Show:
- 2022 Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market Best of Show Award – Arthur Holmes, Jr (Hopi) for “Reaching Out for Strength, Encouragement”
- 2022 Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market Conrad House InnovationAward – Jamie Okuma (Luiseno/Shoshone/Bannock) for “Becoming”
- 2022 Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market Idyllwild Arts Imagination Award – Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe) for “3 Sisters”
- 2022 Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market Indian Arts & Crafts Association Commemorative Award – Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee, Creek/Seminole) for “Ivory Billed Woodpecker Mokume Gane Gorget”
- 2022 Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market Best of Classification Awards:
- Best Jewelry & Lapidary – Lyndon Tsosie (Navajo) for “Origin of Life Through Light”
- Best Pottery – Alvina Yepa (Jemez Pueblo) for “Hummingbird Water Jar”
- Best 2-Dimensional Art – Carlin Bear Don’t Walk (Crow) for “These Dayz”
- Best Pueblo Carvings – Arthur Holmes, Jr. (Hopi) for “Reaching Out for Strength, Encouragement”
- Best Sculpture – Tim Washburn (Navajo) for “Holding On To Traditions and Looking Forward”
- Best Weaving and Textiles – Mary Henderson Begay (Navajo) for “Ganado Red Chief Blanket”
- Best Diverse Art Forms + Beadwork and Quillwork – Elias Not Afraid (Apsaalooke, Crow) for “Life After Death”
- Best Baskets Diverse Art Forms + Beadwork and Quillwork – Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy) for “Fine Weave”
- Best Personal Attire and Accessories – Elias Not Afraid (Apsaalooke, Crow) for “Spiked Ermine Tail Clutch”
- Best Open Standards – Rain Scott (Acoma) for “Minah’Dee (Keeper of the Salt)”
Best of Show winner, Arthur Holmes, Jr. is a Hopi katsina carver who has previously received awards at three Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Markets. Based between Prescott Valley, Ariz., and Moencopi, on the Hopi Reservation in Northern Arizona, Holmes is known for his detailed carvings and paintings. Holmes’s first carvings were flat wooden dolls for traditional ceremonies, but his work has moved into the “action style” of the katsina carvings we see today. Holmes received Best of Class for Wood Carvings in 2010 and Honorable Mentions in both the 2014 and 2008 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market.
The Best of Show winners were announced at the awards ceremony during the Heard Guild Indian Fair & Market in Phoenix on March 4, 2022. The Best of Show award is due to the generous support of Howard R. & Joy M. Berlin, Kristine & Leland W. Peterson, the Head Family, and Sharron Lewis. The full list of the 2022 juried competition winners can be found here.
The Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market is one of the largest Indigenous art markets in the world and draws nearly 15,000 visitors and more than 650 of North America’s most preeminent Indigenous artists. The Guild Indian Fair & Market provides the opportunity to meet and purchase art directly from multiple generations of artists working in all forms of the visual arts. All proceeds from ticket sales support the Heard Museum’s mission of advancing American Indian art.
About the Heard Museum
Since its founding in 1929, the Heard Museum, a private nonprofit organization, has grown in size and stature to become recognized internationally for the quality of its collections, world-class exhibitions, educational programming and unmatched festivals. Dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art, the Heard successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective as well as exhibitions that showcase the beauty and vitality of traditional and contemporary art. The Heard Museum is supported, in part, by the generosity of Heard Museum members and donors, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture. In association with the Smithsonian, the Heard Museum is part of a select group of museums and cultural, educational, and arts organizations that share the Smithsonian’s resources with the nation.
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