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Cover: Christine Nofchissey McHorse (Navajo), Spine, 2010, Photo Addison Doty.

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NORMAN > Dark Light: the Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art/OU Campus Thru January 12, 2014 http://www.ou.edu/fjjma.html > >

PERKINS > Iowa Nation Grey Snow Eagle House 2 mi S of Perkins on Hwy 177 Weekend tours by appointment, call 405-334-7471 http://www.facebook.com/GreySnowEagleHouse

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> CULTURAL RESOURCE ONLINE > > yArk was founded to ensure world heritage sites are available to future generations, while making them accessible today. CyArk operates internationally to create a free, 3D online library of the world’s cultural heritage sites before they are lost. One such project is the preservation of Hopi Petroglyph sites, in cooperation with the Hopi Tribe. Site information, perspective and detail views, virtual tours, photos, Google Earth interactivity and much more are available for this and other CyArk projects. > http://archive.cyark.org/ hopi-petroglyph-sites-intro > >

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> DARK LIGHT > > culptor Christine Nofchissey McHorse seems full of contradictions. The Navajo artist uses traditional methods to create ceramics that challenge the notion of traditional Native American art. As a resident of New Mexico, her works are being scooped up by non-Southwest art aficionados across the nation.

Her new series, Dark Light, utilizes blackened, micarich clay she harvests from riverbeds in northern New Mexico that fires to a sheen that actually sparkles.

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> ooted in timeless Puebloan traditions, McHorse uses the method she learned from her mother-inlaw, Lena Archuleta of Taos, harvesting the clay by and building her forms by hand. Taos potters, like those of the neighboring Picuris, Nambe and Teseque Pueblos (nestled in the foothills and passes of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains), have been making micaceous pottery for more than 700 years. The clay of this region is naturally rich in mica particles (metamorphic rock subjected to high pressures and temperatures). When utilized in pottery making and after coiling, burnishing and firing, the mica flecks create a glittering surface upon which light dances back and forth.

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> any Native artists have shrugged off the limitations of historicized ‘tradition,’ and as they actively practice their cultural traditions, they creatively respond to diverse contemporary influences,” said Heather Ahtone, the James T. Bialac Assistant Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

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or McHorse, this creative response results in forms that are studies in sensuous shadows and highlights, organic curves, smooth spirals and rounded folds. By creating vessel-based art that is undecorated and abstract, McHorse’s work relates more to modern sculpture than to Southwestern culture. As a result, she has been collected both by contemporary art and Native arts collectors.

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Spatial Concerto 2012, Micaceous Clay, 18 1⁄8 x 23 x 7 1⁄2 in.

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Nautilus 2006, Micaceous Clay, 18 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 in.

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> oreover, McHorse creates objects that speak within a distinctively 21st-century vernacular,” Ahtone said. “She challenges the potential of the clay’s structural limits and natural pliability to build forms that are organic, sculptural and architectonic.”

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ark Light: the Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse is on display through Jan 12 2014 in the Cy and Lissa Wagner Gallery of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. Dark Light is the first traveling exhibition by McHorse and features works created since the series began in 1997. In addition to many of her full-bodied pieces, viewers can see original sketches and design plans on display.

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> nterim museum director Mark White said McHorse’s Norman visit, which includes a week of classroom time in September with OU art students and a gallery talk for the community, reflects the mission of the museum and the endowment’s namesake.

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> e are very grateful for the generous patronage of Mrs. Westheimer and her continued support of art and education at the University of Oklahoma,” he said. “Her endowment continues to combine art and education, and both the university and Norman communities will benefit from this unique opportunity. Christine McHorse is considered to be one of the most innovative forces in Native American pottery today. We are excited for this opportunity to share both the artist and her works with our visitors.”

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ccording to Sheila Morago, Executive Director of the According to the Oklahoma Indian Oklahoma Indian Gaming Gaming Association, by Association,nher group’s 2009 the state Oklahoma is the thirdvery existence and the led the nation in the largest gaming revenue current proliferation of trigrowth rate of tribal generator in the country. bal gaming in gaming. Nationwide, Bingo was the base on Oklahoma is a tribal gaming has been direct result of the tribes’ which we built our current on an upswing with early success with Bingo. growth of $14.7 billion gamimg operations. in 2002 to $27.2 billion Sheila Morago, Executive Director, “What you see now is a Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association in 2011. And Indian direct result of high-stakes Bingo remains a popular Bingo,” she says. “We are attraction at casinos now the third-largest gaming revenue across the country, and Oklahoma. generator in the country behind Nevada and California. Bingo in Oklahoma was Oklahoma gaming has made major the base at which we built our current strides since those early days of Bingo. operations. Oklahoma is still the bedrock From Bingo palaces to Vegas-style resort of Class II gaming in the country and I casinos, the tribes have focused on am sure we will continue to be for the offering a great night out of entertainment foreseeable future.”

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