CORTEZ – The Navajo for generations have created sand paintings for use in sacred ceremonies. Diné artist Bento Yazzie has a unique take on the art form, but he struggles to describe what it’s like to ...

While most visual artists can saunter over to an arts-supply store to get their materials, Michael Augustin’s situation is a bit different. Through rattlesnake-filled canyons, down cliffs and across ...

Eugene Joe is a Diné sand art painter from Shiprock, New Mexico. Eugene comes from a family of sand painters and has spent 50 years as an artist. His work reflects his Diné culture and includes ...

In a big flat sandbox floored with fine, clean sand, on the third floor of Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, squatted two full-blooded Navajo medicine men. The elder, Charley Turquoise, sported a ...

According to legend, the Navajo Indians learned art from their gods. The gods painted lasting pictures on buckskin, but they told the Navajos to make sand-paintings and destroy them as soon as they ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...