October 16, 2024
A red tapestry is edged with indigo at the top and bottom and features an undulating line of the same color across the top quarter. The work is a flat rectangle of wool, but the vibrancy of the colors makes it seem almost alive.
The piece, Monumental Edge 2, is one of 48 tapestries by DY Begay on display in “Sublime Light,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian that runs through July 2025.
While Begay, who is Diné (or Navajo), has exhibited her work often in the American Southwest, she is perhaps not as familiar elsewhere. The National Museum of the American Indian aims to change that, for Begay and others. The museum is well-positioned to “call attention to incredibly talented artists that are well-known in the Native American art world in Santa Fe but are not really all that well-known in the mainstream art world,” says associate curator Cécile R. Ganteaume.
Read more here at Smithsonian.com.