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| Venaya pictured with 2014 Miss Navajo Nation, McKeon K. Dempsey |
Recently I was invited to be a part of the annual Restoring & Celebrating Family Wellness "Focus on Youth" Conference in Shiprock, New Mexico. During this even I was able to mentor Navajo Youth and work with many talented Navajo artists including, Keno Zahney, James Joe and Johnson Yazzie among others.
As we began our painting session, Miss Navajo Nation, McKeon K. Dempsey visited and assisted in preparation of the canvas we would all paint on. She stayed for the morning session and painted. I had the chance to talk with her and found that she is especially Art-minded.
She is an alumnus, as I am, of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. We had a great conversation about the Arts in Navajoland, or the lack of them in the lives of Navajo children. We also discussed the status of Navajo women in the Arts on the reservation, Miss Dempsey is a wonderful and very intelligent person who is representing the Navajo People, I am very proud of her as she is my 'lil sister' or shi'deezhi; in the Navajo way of K'e'.
I also expressed my work in 'Indigenous Adornment' and that I favored her Navajo jewelry she was 'adorned' in that day.
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