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Melanie A. Yazzie ™: jewelry
BITTER WATER GIRL
sterling silver enhancer
3” h x 2” w
Pendant/enhancer cast sterling silver. Gently slide the enhancer over beads or a cord of your own. Beads and cords shown in the images are for sale separately.
Melanie A. Yazzie (Navajo-Diné) is a highly regarded multimedia artist known for her printmaking, paintings, sculpture and jewelry designs. She has exhibited, lectured and taught throughout the United Sates, Europe, Mexico, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Her work is in important museum collections world wide. Glenn Green Galleries, her international representatives, collaborate in creating these jewelry designs that are made in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Figures of animals, insects and other beings are meant to protect and give strength to the wearer. The winged female figures, called pollinators, are named for her personal Navajo clans, the Salt Water and Bitter Water. They serve as symbols of empowerment and the possibility of creating good things. Yazzie see these as her protectors. In her artwork she follows the Navajo philosophy of seeking beauty, balance and harmony.
Some of the pendants/enhancers are shown on strands of beads which are sold separately. Contact the gallery for further information.
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- Dimensions:Width: 2 in (50.8 mm)Length: 3 in (76.2 mm)
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- Date of Manufacture:2019
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- Seller Location:Santa Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1308113826072
Melanie Yazzie
Melanie Yazzie is an American sculptor, painter and printmaker, born in 1966, in Ganado, Arizona. She first studied art at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania. She has received a BA degree in studio art with a minor in Spanish from Arizona State University, in 1990 and an MFA degree in printmaking from the University of Colorado, at Boulder, in 1993.
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