Slideshow | Nihi Na’ach’ąąhí Á’té
Navajo Times | Sharon Chischilly
Participants place their artwork on a table for the group to view after the Nihi Na’ach’ąąhí Á’té (We Are Painters) Watercolor Workshop Series Sept. 2 at the Navajo Nation Museum Trailhead in Window Rock.
WINDOW ROCK
Participants turned their attention to local plants Sept. 2 during the Nihi Na’ach’ąąhí Á’té, or We Are Painters, Watercolor Workshop Series at the Navajo Nation Museum Trailhead.
The free, all-ages workshop brought participants outdoors to observe plants before putting what they saw on paper. The session included a short hike from the trailhead to a sandstone area near the museum, where participants worked with watercolor supplies provided by the Navajo Nation Museum.
The workshop was presented with the Diné Native Plants Program. Among the plants selected for painting were spectacle pod, Dimorphocarpa wislizeni, known in Navajo as Nahatʼeʼiidą́ą́ʼ łibáhígíí, and Indian paintbrush, known as Dahiitįį́hídą́ą́’tsoh.
Nizhoni Baldwin of Sanders, Arizona, painted a spectacle pod growing in the field, while Penelope Mike, 11, worked from an Indian paintbrush nearby. Participants used brushes, sponges and watercolors as they studied the shapes and colors of the plants around them.
At the end of the two-hour workshop, participants placed their paintings on a table for the group to view. The museum also invited artists to display completed work inside the Navajo Nation Museum.
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