Arts

Cheryl Todicheeney is a grandmother and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran from Teesto, Arizona. An avid reader and aspiring writer, she submitted this children’s story to encourage conversation about addiction and its many forms. Todicheeney is seeking an illustrator to develop the story into a book.

A mother and daughter from the Ganado area are taking Navajo weaving patterns from vertical looms into a new rug line set to debut March 6, 2026, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

For a moment, the gray sky above Dinétah opened, and sunlight spilled through, casting the scene in soft gold. Director Travis Holt Hamilton stood behind the monitor, watching as the lead actor, “Secody,” a 70-year-old veteran learning to forgive his father, knelt in prayer. The wind lifted the trees, the light intensified and then it was gone.

For Lois Becenti, weaving has been both a livelihood and a way of life for six decades.

Navajo artist Elmer Yazzie chose not to paint the familiar mountains and waterways for his Northern Navajo Fair poster. Instead, he created a portrait of a multigenerational family gathered before Tsé Bit’ą’í, a scene that speaks to the bonds that hold a household together