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Booths take over the streets and Plaza
The crowd was packed watching the entertainment all day
Sponsor Board back of stage - Skystone is a Benefactor of SWAIA
More artist booths everywhere
Artist showing Coral Dragonfly Necklace
Artist talking to crowd
Award-Winning Sally Black and her ribbon-winning plaque
Jemez Pottery booth
Navajo Weaving Booth
Fabulous Ribbon-winning Beaded Dress
Award-Winning Hopi Armand Fritz & Dbl Kachinas
Beautiful hand-coiled Clay Deities
Rena Begay's Navajo weaving booth
Bold, large blue painting and Artist
Marvin Toddy's booth and ribbon-winning painting, Navajo
Huge ribbon-winning Painting
Santo Domingo Heishe artist Lillian Lovato and daughter Vanessa
The Lovato Grandchildren
Caroline Carpio, limited edition Bronze Pottery, Isleta
Many painting booths were under the portal
Famous Zuni jeweler Veronica Poblano
Michael McCullough's booth, painter, Choctaw, Oneida
Mateo Romero, Cochiti painter in his booth with a visitor
Lyndon Tsosie, emerging Navajo jewelry artist
Paul with Ray Scott, Navajo jeweler on the website
Website Artist Kai Gallagher at the show
The characters came out dressed with flavor
Tesuque Family of Dancers about ready to perform
Young Dancers and their father (beating drum and singing), Tesuque Pueblo
Traditional Food Concessions: Fry Bread, Roasted Corn and More!
Crowd watching the dancing and music
Singer with Drum all alone on the stage stopped the crowd in their tracks
Women listening to music
Famous Zuni Musician Fernando Cellicion played flute and sang, the crowd was quiet and entranced
Zuni Dancers waiting to take the stage while Fernando Cellicion sang
Zuni Deer Dancers performing
Zuni Deer Dancers - rare photographs, you can't take photos of the Deer Dance if they are dancing at the Pueblo
Zuni Deer Dancers in full costume performing traditional dancing to drum and rattles
Traditional Zuni Moccasins
Closeup of Deer Dancer face
Side shows by non-natives were going on in the hotels offering Turquoise and jewelry
Rough stabilized turquoise on display available for sale
Strands of stabilized turquoise at a wholesalers room
Abundant display of natural and stabilized turquoise rough and strands
Poster for Carico Lake Turquoise "It's all about the Turquoise"
Donated Harley Auctioned at the Gala Saturday Night, sold for $20,000
Julia Audrey at Gala wearing Lovato necklace, Candelaria pendant and Gallagher earrings
Paul O'Connell at Gala
Our table at the end of the Gala with long-time Native art collectors and SWAIA supporters
St. Francis Cathedral off the Plaza Sunday night, all is quiet. Booths will be gone by morning. Hope to
see you here next year!
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Thought you would love to see some images from last year's Santa Fe Indian Market. This is the largest and most prestigious juried native art show
in the world.
There were over 1100 booths with artists representing tribes from all over
the Unites States and Canada with an estimated 80,000 people in attendance.
Held on Saturday and Sunday from 7am-5pm, with Previews of the ribbon winning art starting on Friday night. There was fabulous weather, beautiful art, incredible music and dancing going all day, traditional clothing and food; something for everyone.
Saturday night is the big Auction Gala at the La Fonda Hotel that raised almost $100,000 for SWAIA (Southwestern Association for Indian Arts). All the art is donated by the artists and auctioned off by an auctioneer from Christie's.
