Dan Namingha was born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He studied art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The American Academy of Art... Read full biography
Dan Namingha was born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He studied art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The American Academy of Art in Chicago. Namingha, whose ancestry is Hopi-Tewa, carries a strong family tradition of artistic... Read full biography
Dan Namingha was born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He studied art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The American Academy of Art in Chicago. Namingha, whose ancestry is Hopi-Tewa, carries a strong family tradition of artistic expression into its fifteenth generation. His great-great-grandmother, Nampayco, is credited with rekindling the art of Hopi Pottery, which his mother and sister continue. Namingha's uncles carve some of... Read full biography
Dan Namingha was born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He studied art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The American Academy of Art in Chicago. Namingha, whose ancestry is Hopi-Tewa, carries a strong family tradition of artistic expression into its fifteenth generation. His great-great-grandmother, Nampayco, is credited with rekindling the art of Hopi Pottery, which his mother and sister continue. Namingha's uncles carve some of three-hundred variations of Hopi kachinas - doll-sized, wooden renderings of ceremonial dancers who are messengers of the spirit world. Namingha's studies at art schools and at the Institute of American Indian Arts, led him toward the new movements... Read full biography
Dan Namingha was born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He studied art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The American Academy of Art in Chicago. Namingha, whose ancestry is Hopi-Tewa, carries a strong family tradition of artistic expression into its fifteenth generation. His great-great-grandmother, Nampayco, is credited with rekindling the art of Hopi Pottery, which his mother and sister continue. Namingha's uncles carve some of three-hundred variations of Hopi kachinas - doll-sized, wooden renderings of ceremonial dancers who are messengers of the spirit world. Namingha's studies at art schools and at the Institute of American Indian Arts, led him toward the new movements that encouraged experimentation with traditional art forms. That sense of freedom is what he found so... Read full biography
Dan Namingha - Artist Info
About Dan Namingha: Books
Books & Publications (23)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
The Art of Dan Namingha
2000
Hoving, Thomas
176 pages (color)
Faces of Arizona A Tribute to Arizona Artists and Patrons
1999
Sarda, Michel F
207 pages
New Mexico Art of the State
1998
Bix, Cynthia
96 pages (color)
Nasa & The Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection
1998
Launius, Roger D
224 pages (color)
Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media and Identity
1998
Leuthold, Steven
238 pages
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Enduring Inspiration New Mexico Landscape Painting 1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Cline Fine Art Gallery
32 pages (color)
The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
1995
Lester, Patrick D.
701 pages
Native American Artists
1995
Reno, Dawn E.
230 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism
1992
Gussow, Alan; John Driscoll (Intro)
120 pages (color)
Namingha Timeless Land and Enduring Images (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Frauchiger, Fritz/K Hough
30 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery