Southwest Tribal Arts / Richard Dube

Tribal affiliation: Zuni, Acoma, and Navajo

How to purchase:
Website: https://southwest-tribal-arts.square.site/
Instagram: swtribalarts
Email: swtribalarts@gmail.com 

Bio:

Southwest Tribal Arts (SWTA) has developed over the last 2 years with the goal of bringing beautiful and authentic artwork, created by talented indigenous Southwest artists, to the Northeast through friendly, equitable trade relationships. We are delighted and honored to share with New England distinctive and highly prized Acoma pottery; highly sought after, intricate Zuni stone inlay jewelry and fine carved fetishes; and beautiful Navajo assembled jewelry, dream catchers, valued weavings and other arts and crafts. All of these artworks are purchase directly from the artists to foster their economic health, and preserve and enhance their cultural and artistic traditions.

We met some of the Acoma, Navajo and Zuni artists we work with on our most recent family trip to Arizona and New Mexico in October of 2018, and were introduce to the other artists soon after. Admiration for their artwork and our friendly, sharing conversations with them, inspire us to grow our relationships with these artists. Learning more about their lives and families, their fine artwork and creative processes, and their rich and ancient cultures, is an enlightening journey that we cherish. We at SWTA look forward to returning to the Southwest for fun, sharing and learning gatherings, and reunions, with our native friends in their beautiful cultural homelands.

Our vision is to support sustainable livelyhoods with our Acoma, Zuni and Navajo artist families, and hopefully other indigenous artist, through enthusiastic, friendly, co-creative and fair-trade relationships.