Exhibitions 1959-1999

1999

October: Glen Canyon: Silent Voices of a Lost Land

October: Kaleidoscopes: Symmetry in Motion

June: Art and Soul: The Art of Fritz Scholder from the Tom and Mary Jane McClain Collection

January: f5: Five Flagstaff Photographers

1998

December: George Elbert Burr etchings

October: Chaco Canyon: 100 Years of Archaeology

October: Flagstaff Fiber Guild: A Continuing Tradition

Summer: Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time

January: Weave for Us a Garment of Brightness: Historic Textiles of the Colorado Plateau

1997

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition; Hopi Quilt Making: Shared Traditions in an Ancient Community

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

May: Enduring Creations: Masterworks of Native American Art

April: Capturing the Spirit: The Joelle Adlerblum Collection of Native American Painting

March: Imago Coelo: The Image of Heaven a collection of Spanish colonial religious paintings

January: Quilting from the Hopi Mesas: Stitched Traditions from an Ancient Community

1996

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Enduring Creations: Masterworks of Native American Indian Art

Traveling Trunks and Treasures: The Heritage of Children’s Art

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

June: Twentieth Century Dinosaurs by Jim Gary

May: Windows of the West: Masterworks of Art from Three Arizona Collectors from Tom G. McClain, Stephane Janssen, and James Bialac

April: Dwellers of the Four Worlds: Katsinas in the Art of the Hopi and Zuni; Paintings of Jo Mora

1995

November: Arizona’s Bizarre and Beautiful Bugs

October: Sacred Lands of the Southwest photography by Harvey Lloyd

October: To Ride the Wild Wind: A Celebration of the Horse in American History

July: Personal Passion, Profitable Pursuit: The Katherine Harvey Collection of Native American Art

July: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

June: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

May: Enduring Creations: Masterworks of Native American Art

April: Three Visions, Three Missions by sculptor Bob Haozous, sculptor Lorenzo Clayton, and painter Ted Villa

February: Hanoolchaadi: Historic Weavings

Grand Canyon: Geography of Hope

Outposts of Commerce: The Trading Post in Arizona History

1994

October: Hanoolchaadi: Historic Weavings Selected by Four Navajo Weavers

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Spring: Clay Lockett: Indian Trader, Collector, and Friend

Grand Canyon: The Human Passage

1993

November: Edward Curtis’ Hopi Photographs

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Treasures of the Tar Pits

1992

November: The Cutting: Nonconformist Native American Art of the Southwest

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition

September: Natural History of the Colorado Plateau

September: Raptors: Southwestern Birds of Prey

September: Natural History of the Colorado Plateau

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

June: Verde Valley Prehistory

January: Portals to Prehistory: MesoAmerican and Southwestern Ballcourts

In the Eye of the Beholder: Edward S. Curtis Photographs of Southwestern Indians

1991

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

August: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

September: Zuni Artists’ Exhibition

September: Dinosaurs: A Global View

Splendid Province: The Colorado Plateau

1990

December: Garnet Pavatea: Hopi Potter

November: Selections from the Fine Art Collection

October: Student Archaeology in a Volcanic Field

September: 13th Annual Flagstaff Handweavers and Spinners Guild Exhibition

September: The Lockett Collection

August: Trails Through Time

August: Navajo Folk Art

June: Arizona Highways Exhibition

June: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

June: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

May: Zuni Artists Exhibition

1989

December: The History of Extinction

December: Life and Change: From Fossils to the Future

September: Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980

September: Native American Silver

August: Louis Akin: Painter of the Colorado Plateau

July: 40th Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: The Lightfoot Collection

July: Photographs of Hopi Life: 1904-1939

June: Willie Coin Tribute and 56th Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

May: 3rd Annual Zuni Show

January: Separate Vision: The Capstone Exhibit works by John Fredericks, kachina carver; Nora Naranjo-Morse, Brenda Spencer, and Baje Whitethorne

 

1988

September: A Separate Vision– Brenda Spencer

July: Hart Merriam and the Life Zone Concept

July: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

July: Grand Canyon Views

June: A Separate Vision by John Fredericks

May: 2nd Annual Zuni Craftsman Exhibition

April: A Separate Vision– Baje Whitethorne

Fine Art Exhibit-Native American Tradition

1987

December: Kachina Dolls and Dr. Harold S. Colton

November: Handweavers Guild Exhibit;

November: Edwin S. Colbert: Sixty Years of Paleontological Work

November: Natural History Photography

September: 1st Zuni Craftsman Exhibition

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

April: Visage Transcended: Contemporary Native American Masks

January: Gunnar Widforss Watercolors

January: Navajo Weaving

Southwest People: A View from the Outside

Stone sculpture by Presley LaFountain

1986

December: Student Art Exhibition of Northern Arizona

October:Historic Trading Posts 1900-1920

September: James Turrell: The Roden Crater Project

August: Artist Invitational by Catherine Phillips Pels

August: The Natural History of Cact

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

March: Amateur Wildflower Photography Exhibit

February: The Tucson Aqueduct Project: A Study in Hohokam Desert Adaptations

1985

March: Clay Lockett Retrospective

March: Jupiter and Its Moons, Voyager 1 and 2: Missions to Jupiter

April: Native American Costume Show

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

July: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

July: Brushstrokes on the Plateau

July: Flagstaff Handweavers Guild Exhibition

July: Maynard Dixon: Portraits of the Southwest

July: Arizona Watercolors by Jeffrey Lunge

December: 9th Annual Student Art Exhibition

1984

April: Junior Indian Art Show

August: Five Directions

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition;

July: The West of George Elbert Burr

July: Selections from the Carolann Smurthwaite Collection

July: Arizona’s Ancient Rock Art-Metal Interpretations by Fred Myers

April: Contemporary Western Images

March: Margaret Colbert Retrospective

1983

October: Flagstaff Handweavers Guild Exhibition

October: Museum Discovery

August: Tension and Harmony: Navajo Weaving

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

April:Mary Russell-Ferrell Colton and the Museum of Northern Arizona

February: Fine Arts Invitational: Cynthia Bennett, William Franklin, Curt Walters

1982

December: 6th Annual Student Art Exhibition of Northern Arizona

October: Flagstaff Handweavers Guild Exhibition

August: Images of the Colorado Plateau

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

April: What in the World

January: The Navajo Way-One Artist’s View; A Beatien Yaz Retrospective

1981

January: Old Town photographs and artifacts from the “Old town” area which burned about 1885

March: Canyons, Clouds and Ceremony: Highlights of the Museum of Northern Arizona Art Collection

April: The Lost Keam Collection, Hopi Pottery from the Second Hemenway Expedition to the American Southwest, 1890-1894

July: Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

June: Specimens from the Mancos Shale

September: Flagstaff Handweavers Guild

September: Tribute to Garnet Pavate: A Memorial Retrospective

October: Walpi: Three Hundred Years of Change

December: Fifth Annual Student Art Exhibition of Northern Arizona

Kachina dolls made by Ray Naha

1980

November: Student Art Exhibition of Northern Arizona

November: The Art of Beadwork

October: The Weaver and the Wool

August: Arizona Sculpture Invitational

July: 47th Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition; Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

May: A Tribute to Edward B. Danson

March: Patterns in Nature

January: Fabric of Enchantment: An exhibition of fine contemporary batiks from Java

1979

December: Student Art Exhibition

November: Roycraft Press Show

August: Ernest Blumenschein Paintings

July: Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

June: Jimmy Kewanwytewa kachina dolls and Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

May: Navajo Pottery

April: Historic American Marbles

March: Natural Motifs in Southwestern Art

January: Dick Arentz Photography

Gretchen Parshall Swinnerton collection

Indian Motif Kitsch

Hohokam archaeology

1978

 

October: 50th Anniversary Show

August: Art Institute Artists and Arizona Printmakers

45th Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

29th Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

May: The Southwest: Photography of Philip Hyde

March: Sacred Paths: Aspects of the Native American and Hispanic Experience in the Southwest

Pueblo and Hispanic Religious Traditions in the Southwest

Flagstaff Handweavers Guild Exhibition

2nd Annual Student Art Exhibition of Northern Arizona

Contemporary Indian Art

1977

44th Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

28th Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Life Forms photographs by Tom Whitham

Original Weavings textiles by the Flagstaff Handweavers Guild

1976

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

August: Wilson Hurley Grand Canyon

Return to the Sea

Photographs by Don Briggs

Mexican American Art

1975

The Bicentennial Exhibit: Tracing the Routes of the 1776 Expeditions of Garces, Escalante, and de Anza Throughout Arizona

Arizona Craftsman Exhibition

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

1974

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Arizona Designer Craftsman Association

Paintings by Louis Akin

Soil and the Environment

1973

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

The Clay Lockett Exhibition of Indian Paintings

1972

Junior Indian Art Show

Photographs of San Xavier Mission by Helga Teweis

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

The Art of Nicolai Fechin

Display of Indian baskets

Wood Carvings from Bali

1970

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Shields and Weapons

The Santa Fe Studio: American Indian Paintings

Dams and Dilemmas

Lunar Rock a specimen brought back from Apollo 11

1969

Junior Indian Art Show

Bits and Bridles

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

The Paintings of Gunnar Widforss

Grand Canyon Explorer

1968

Junior Indian Art Show

Photography Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Paintings on loan from the Palm Springs Museum and paintings from the collection of Mr. Clay Lockett

1967   

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Photographs by Frederick Sommer

Art from the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site

1966   

MNA Staff Exhibition

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Flagstaff Collects Art

1965

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Eskimo Graphics

The American Art Show

1964   

Moenkopi-Place of Running Water

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

1963

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

The Fred Harvey Collection

Photographs by Parker Hamilton

1962

Persian Miniatures

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

Reservation Days: Photographs of Navajo Country and People

1961

Junior Indian Art Show

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

Annual Navajo Craftsman Exhibition

The Outlaw River: Photographs of the Colorado River by Weston and Jeanne Lee

Western Scenes sketches by Don Perceval

Oil Paintings from the Read Mullan Collection

Illustrations of a photomural exhibit on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum

1960

Annual Hopi Craftsman Exhibition

1959

The Acculturation Process “Shonto Show”

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