Navajo Art

Scope and Contents Venancio Aragon is a Navajo (Diné) weaver. He learned to weave through “intergenerational knowledge exchange” (a common practice in his culture), from his mother as well as his grandmother’s toolkit. In this interview, Aragon talks about going to college for anthropology and native American and Indigenous studies and how that helped him understand and articulate Western influence on the trajectory of indigenous culture. Speaking specifically about his practice as an artist, Aragon describes...