Dawavendewa Gallery

Gathering Prayers

First Place - Blue Ribbon, Hopi Festival 2007 Museum of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, Arizona

Nuvatukya’ovi

Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence in Two Dimensional Art, Pam and Roland Shack. Southwest Indian Art Fair 2005 Arizona State Museum Tucson, Arizona

Angwusnasomtaqa - Crow Mother

Collection: His Holiness the 14th the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso -

McLeod Ganj, India

Journey to Tuuwaqatsi

Collection: James T. Bialac Collection. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Prayers for the Sun and Moon

First Runner Up, Blue Ribbon - Drawing, Graphics, Prints - Cherokee Art Market 2006. Tulsa Oklahoma

Welcome

Collection: Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Emergence Staircase

Collection: The University of Arizona, Student Union Memorial Center. Tucson, Arizona

Earth Bundle

NASA Astronaut Thomas D. Jones, carried a special memento on his first flight aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour April 9 - 20, 1994.

The Fourth World

Collection: Arizona State Museum. Installed in the Hopi section of the "Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest" exhibit

Glass Ornaments

Designed by Dawavendewa and hand blown by artists in Poland.

Gathering in Song

Acrylic on canvas

Luminary Parrot

Six foot tall sculpture with solar powered lighting. Sold at auction to benefit not-profit organizations in Tucson, Arizona.

Suyang'ephoya Tihu

Left-Handed Warrior Katsina Carving.

Collections

Cherokee Maiden

Collection: Wilma Mankiller - Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985-1995)

Publications, Articles, and Artwork

"Creative Spirits, Meet 4 Tucson Native American Artists"
Tucson Guide Magazine
Spring 2006 

"Art of the Hopi, Contemporary Journeys on Ancient Pathways"
Jerry and Lois Essary Jacka
Northland Publishing 

"Plateau, The Land & People of the Colorado Plateau" - "Murals and Metaphors"
Fall 2006 volume 3, number 1
Museum of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, Arizona

Awards

"Gathering Prayers"

Blue Ribbon
Museum of Northern Arizona
Hopi Festival 2007 - Flagstaff, Arizona

"Mimbres"

Blue Ribbon
Award of Excellence in Painting / Drawing - Arch and Laura Brown
Southwest Indian Art Fair 2007
Arizona State Museum - Tucson, Arizona

"Prayers for a Good Harvest"

Third Place
Hopi Festival 2006
Museum of Northern Arizona - Flagstaff, Arizona

"Nuvatukya'ovi"

Blue Ribbon
Award of Excellence inTwo Dimensional Art - Pam and Roland Shack
Southwest Indian Art Fair 2005
Arizona State Museum - Tucson, Arizona

"Prayers for the Sun and Moon"

Blue Ribbon - 1st Runner-Up
Drawing, Graphics, Prints
Cherokee Art Market 2006 - Tulsa, Oklahoma