Arts

The woman on this year’s Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial poster has no face. She stands with her hands on her hips against a field of turquoise, an eagle fan tucked at her waist and red circles of war paint on her cheeks, framed by a maroon-and-white band of diamonds and triangles.

The music came first. A cane flute no thicker than a finger and a small drum with a head painted red, white and green, both played by the same pair of hands high above the ground.

Kinsale Drake returned to Ééhániih Day with the kinds of gifts she remembers receiving there as a child, this time handing out backpacks and books while announcing that NDN Girls Book Club had secured a bookmobile.

The evening sun was still warm on the downtown storefronts July 11 as Gino Antonio sat behind his table at the Gallup Arts Crawl, polishing silver and talking about Bigfoot.

Twenty new sculptures have been installed in downtown Farmington as part of the city’s 2026-27 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, a public art program now in its fourth year.