Spam as art
(Times photo - Leigh T. Jimmie)
Lisha Thomas, left, and Lauran Houland, both of Dulce, N.M., carve spam into a butterfly and the U.S. White House, respectively, at the 11th annual International Spam Carving Contest July 14 during the Little Beaver Celebration.
Nostalgia, irony highlight decade-old carving contest
By Erny Zah
Navajo Times
DULCE, N.M., July 28, 2011
(Times photo - Leigh T. Jimmie)
TOP: Judges look over more than 100 entries in the 11th annual International Spam Carving Contest at the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Senior Citizen's Center on July 14 in Dulce, N.M.
BELOW: Nina Zentz, of Dulce, N.M., holds a train engine she carved for the 11th annual International Spam Carving Contest July 14 at the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Senior Citizen's Center.