Hopi Marketplace: A Singular Success

The Museum of Northern Arizona's 67th Annual Hopi Marketplace was a heartfelt success, honoring over 60 Hopi artists in 43 different divisions the weekend of July 1st and 2nd. Special Millennium Achievement awards were given this year and a special Loloma Award given to Michael Kapotie as well as prizes for the regular divisions.

This year's Marketplace was also the first to include the Nuvtukya'ovi fun run, organized by Rainy Naha and her husband Rod. Ms. Naha also won Best of Pottery Division for the fourth straight year here. Throughout the weekend there were children's activities and the warm smell of piki bread and parched corn, punctuated by Palmer Saufkie's flute music and traditional dances shown by two different groups: the Hopi Hoiyam Dancers and Hopi-Tewa Sinom Dancers. Hopi Tribal Chairman Wayne Taylor and his wife Loris were on hand for the festivities and visited with the artists.

In the list of awards every generation was represented, from Olive Toney as the eldest senior participant to 12 year old DesireĊ½ Dennis for her colorful basket weaving. Every form of traditional and contemporary art was honored. Many pieces were a bit of both.

The Millennium Achievement Award for Most Creative Quilt went to Marilyn Masayesva for her quilt entitled, appropriately, Millennium Girl.

"Millennium Girl is my daughter. I made the quilt last winter during the time of the lunar eclipse. The eclipse is in the corner there, and my daughter is the maiden in the middle holding two parrots, signifying the future, in her hands. Below her is a snake, the symbol of change."

Indeed, and change for the good.

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