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Native Art

Livin' the Arts

About Me

New 12/2/07 - Native Radio Interview: Rezervations Interview from Native Voice One, posted in Blog!

New 11/6/07 - Native Art Travel - New features: International currencies, Featured Destinations! Discount Hotel, Travel, Vacation packages - Powwows, Art Shows, Powwow Highway Road Trips! Check it out!

New 3/8/07 - Created new feature at Native Art Network: Native American Art Community Forum . Stop by and leave a message!

My name is Paul Kabotie. I am Hopi and Santa Clara Pueblo from the Southwest. Native American Art is my passion. I love traveling to shows around the country. I grew up amidst the arts my entire life. I founded Native Art Network to cultivate appreciation for Native American Fine Art and to support Native artists, families and communities.


About the picture:

I created this work to reflect my vision of Native Art Network . The circle is a Crow design, from my wife's tribe, created by artist Ann Pisano and converted to a graphic by my friend Kirsten Olivet of Niche Media One . To me it symbolizes the bold yet gentle energy my wife Lesley brings to my life and to the world. The motifs in the background are Hopi designs that represent the arts that have surrounded me my whole life and have become a part of who I now am. The downward facing wedge design on the right symbolize my spirit and the brown hands represent the creativity of all Indigenous Artists.

The colored checkerboard pattern represents my particular artistic medium and creative outlet - the computer keyboard - where I spend countless hours doing art, computer programming, and networking with y'all.

Please leave a friendly note on my profile. Don't post a video or audio that auto-plays - I will delete them. Pictures are fine though.

How you can help:

Consider adding a link on your website to Native Art Network if you like what we're about and what we're doing. Support Native Artists.


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My Interests

Native American history and art. I am fascinated by the art and culture of the many many Native Peoples of North America.


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I'd like to meet:

People doing things that benefit their communities in a positive way and, by extension, the whole world. Jimmy Carter, Buffy St. Marie, Montel Williams, Jessica Lynch.

My Latest Pursuit:

Hotels, Powwows and Road Trips

Heroes:

Native Art Network Artists:
Sheryl Susunkewa
Alex Jacobs
Adrian Wall
Okuu Pin'
Lynda Teller-Pete
Barbara Ornelas
Morning Spirit Jewelry

Native Art Network artists - if you have a Myspace account, let me know so I can add you here!!



My Blog

The Arts Support Tribal Sovereignty

Update 11/30/07 - Added the audio interview belowTHE ARTS SUPPORT TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTYNative Entrepreneur Advocates for BothDenver, CO, November 20, 2007 - The Arts, Tradition, Culture, Education, Econo...
Posted by Native Art on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:23:00 PST

Growing Pains

I can remember as a teenager waking abruptly in the middle of the night with the painful and prolonged sensation of limbs stretching, bones and muscles trying to negotiate one another as I tried frant...
Posted by Native Art on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:10:00 PST

New And Improved

The New Native Art Network! It slices! It Dices! It makes frybread! Get it now while it's hot!You probably noticed the changes to the profile here on myspace. I'm continuously working to improve (plus...
Posted by Native Art on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:31:00 PST

The Great White North

I took my first trip to Canada on business two weeks ago.  I had to get a passport! For the first time ever, flying to Canada requires a passport. It's a sad testament to my 40 year life that I'v...
Posted by Native Art on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:42:00 PST

Lost In Space

Cyber space that is. I've been on the internet every day for months yet have not made it back to my poor little neglected myspace account. My time has been consumed by work work work - Paul is working...
Posted by Native Art on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST

North American Indigenous Games

The Indigenous Games are here!!! For the first time ever in the United States, and right here in Denver. Awesome!Yesterday I went to the opening ceremonies at Invesco Mile High stadium. It was very co...
Posted by Native Art on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:38:00 PST

A MySpace Junkie in the making

The Native America Calling radio show went okay. I was ready to talk about all kinds of cool geeky tech stuff but most of the show was dedicated to legal and policy issues directed to John Dozier, a l...
Posted by Native Art on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:06:00 PST

Native America Calling

Starting out... my first blog!Checking out myspace.com. So far I am pretty impressed with everything here.  I was prompted into signing up here today by a phone call...Native America Calling call...
Posted by Native Art on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:44:00 PST