Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya

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Opening reception for artists is JUNE 22, 2008from 1-4pm................................Presentation of cash awards to: Best of Show: James Joe (Navajo) "Bleeding Sky", 1st: Sonja Horoshko "Media. Land. Scape.", 2nd: Duran Washburn (Navajo) "This Beautiful World", 3rd: Christy Ferrato "Desert Rock Poetry Triptych" and Honorable Mention: Ricardo Moreno "Transcend Dualism."
Adult Category (20+)
6:00 a.m. Summer Solstice begins
Connections: Earth + Artist =
A Juried Tribute Art Show in Resistance to Desert Rock As artists, use your art to give voice to the voiceless! Submit your art of expression, art of protest against pollution, and art on behalf of the environment.
Due to the recent proposal to build a third coal-burning power plant in the Four Corners area, I would like to give voice to all people of the area who will be affected. This includes people from the communities of: Shiprock, Farmington, Hogback, Sweetmeat, Sanostee, Tocito, Red Mesa, Two Grey Hills, Oaksprings, Naschitti, Newcomb, Tohatchi, Gallup, Aztec, Bloomfield, NM, also in the Colorado communities of: Durango, Mancos, Cortez, Hesperus, Bayfield and beyond. The indigenous peoples of the following tribes will also be affected: Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Hopi and the Jicarilla Apache reservation.
The San Juan Valley near the Four Corners in New Mexico houses two coal-powered power plants. A thickening yellow gray cloud of carbon dioxide pollution has continually grown in girth over the years. As a result, it doesnâ€™t snow anymore here. The rain clouds pass right over, leaving the land parched. Our valley, once full of huge strapping cottonwood trees, now stores drying and dying trees. The valley is dying and the inhabitants who have settled here daily inhale filmy polluted haze, and exhale tainted mercury breath. As a life-long resident of this area I have watched the physical decline of the flora and fauna, animal life and too, the ill health affects that have come to plague my DinÃ© people. For generations, my family has planted their crops, grazed their livestock and built their homes in the place the DinÃ© call TotÃ¡, or Farmington as it was later named by the Anglos. In a couple months a new third coal-powered called Desert Rock will be built on the Navajo Reservation. The $3 billion power plant is projected to produce 1,500 megawatts of electricity for places off the reservation, and instead what we will get is more mercury and carbon dioxide emissions.
This proposed power plant has already negatively affected us mentally, spiritually and soon physically. Take a stand for the earth! Stand for the Navajo Elders who are being ignored! Be inspired, create and submit your work on behalf of our precious land, our Mother Earth.
Sincerely, Venaya Yazzie, DinÃ© / Hopi Artist

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A Not So SILENT PROTEST-Desert ROock Art Show

.. The Arts Visual, Performing, Language, Culinary & Physical Desert Rock Art Show A Not So Silent Protest By Stew MosbergJuly 2, 2008, 7:00 am Historically, art by itself h...
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:43:00 PST

The Art of Resisting DESERT ROCK power plant

..TR> The art of resisting Desert Rock Center of Southwest Studies opens "Connections: Earth + Artist" exhibiton ..TR> A sheer peice of fabric is draped over a billowing power plant, creating ...
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

Five tribes seek to protect Mount Taylor from development

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Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:31:00 PST

OPINION-Desert Rock Air Permit Decision long Overdue

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Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST

ACCEPTED art entries 4 Desert Rock Tribute Show

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Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:52:00 PST

Native American Poets

Where do you think poetry fits in the Native American literary canon? I think it fits right smack dab in the middle of NA fiction and non-fiction. Poetry written by contemporary Native American ...
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:24:00 PST

Uranium monsters approach Dine' Nation

Have the monsters returned? The monsters from the stories of our ancestors who tried to destroy the people are once again approaching Diné Bi Keyah.Recent news of a mining company that has applied for...
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:26:00 PST

Thank you, Artists!

Hey all, just wanted to extend my thanks to all of those artists who took time to CrEaTe ArT for Connections: Earth + Artist = A Tribute Art Show in Resistance to Desert Rock. Your ar...
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:14:00 PST

Words of Manuelito

"My God and my mother live in the west and I will not leave them. I was born there. I shall remain there. I have nothing to lose but my life, and that they can come and take whenever they please....
Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Thu, 15 May 2008 01:52:00 PST

How to Enter and Submit an Application

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Posted by Connections:Earth+Artist=Call4 Artists Venaya on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:40:00 PST