Pueblo Weaving: A Story of Cultural Identity and Continuity

Master artist Louie Garcia ( Tiwa/Piro Pueblo, New Mexico) and apprentice Tony Jojola (Las Cruces, New Mexico), pueblo weaving. One of six digital stories created as part of a six month Documentary Apprenticeship program in 2016, focusing on cross-generational learning, traditional New Mexican folk arts, and digital storytelling. Alongside a traditional master-apprentice program, artist teams learned digital storytelling techniques, documented their learning processes, and produced these videos telling the story of their apprenticeships and art forms. Program Blog: This program was in conjunction with MOIFA’s exhibition: Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today’s Global Marketplace In the Mark Naylor & Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience June 4, 2017 - July 16, 2018 Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate is about contemporary folk artists and their relationship with their patrons, buyers and collectors. We are especially interested in understanding the pressures they might feel to keep their traditions alive in the face of modern technological advances and new consumer demands. Visitors will see a kind of “mock up“ or series of idea sketches. The artworks will come at a later point in the process- after we have heard from visitors, artists and local community members.