🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Apache Woman Herding Sheep," a watercolor on paper by Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (Haozous) (1914-1994)
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C532
Discover more from the MNA collections, by searching our online catalogue of art and objects. musnaz.org/collections/
Arguably one of the most important female artists of the Southwest, Mahoney's art career spanned 66 years, from her roots in the abstract expressionism of the 1950s to her role as a mentor and master artist with a distinctive style bridging realism and abstraction. #joellajeanmahoney #sliderock
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🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Rush to Meaning" by Joella Jean Mahoney (1933-2017)
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C2899
#joellajeanmahoney #sundayartday #sliderock
"It’s very easy to give up and quit, but the magic happens when you don’t.” —Duane Koyawena. Read about the birth and legacy of Hopi R2. Our thanks to Duane and Joe for their dedication in keeping this unique droid alive and bleeping.
#Hopi #R2D2 #StarWars #CultureIcon
🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Eagle Dancers" by San Idlefonso Pueblo artist Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez, 1899-1971)
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C1127
See more from our collections at musnaz.org/collections/.
We’re excited to share this beautiful Arizona Public Media feature on Hopi carver Cory Ahownewa. Cory shows and sells his work at our annual Heritage Festival of Arts & Culture. Thank you, Cory, for sharing your art and story with us. 🙌
🎥 David Fenster | Arizona Public Media
⬇️ Tuesday Trivia ⬇️
Before they were assigned numbers, main roads across the nation were given names. On which road would travelers have found this directional marker on display in our Wagon Road to Mother Road exhibit?
A. Lincoln Highway
B. Mother Road
C. National Old Trails Road
D. Santa Fe Trail
To witness Vishnu Schist is to stand at the hinge between time and breath: a Paleoproterozoic heartbeat buried deep in the earth…”—Stephen Auger
08.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The dark, almost black presence of Vishnu Schist at the canyon’s base—its coarse crystals, its quiet, iron-strong gravity—became not just a sight but a memory pressed into the skin of the water and the air around me. …
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🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Vishnu Schist" by contemporary artist Stephen Auger | MNA | C2573
Featured in our "Call of the Colorado Plateau" exhibition, Auger’s large-scale painting reflects the dark, banded metamorphic rock of the Grand Canyon base layer. #vishnuschist #grandcanyongeology
We want to hear from you! 👇
Help us understand how we can better serve and engage our community by taking a short survey—part of a national study of museum-goers led by the American Alliance of Museums. Your input will help shape the future of the Museum of Northern Arizona. Thank you!
Find that answer and more in our "Wagon Road to Mother Road" exhibition on view through January 2027.
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Two pickup trucks, a couple of people, and an overturned passenger car are seen along a stretch of Route 66 in Navajo County, Arizona, c. 1960
⬇️Tuesday Trivia⬇️
By 1956, approximately how many automotive deaths in Arizona occurred on Route 66?
A. 1 in 10
B. 1 in 6
C. 1 in 3
D. Nearly half
📸 An accident along Route 66 in Navajo County, 1960. (National Park Service photo)
#TuesdayTrivia #route66 #motherroad
Graphic ceremonial bird design with orange, yellow, green, red, blue, purple and black on an empty field in light tan. Signed Tse-Ye-Mu in the lower right corner.
🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Ceremonial Bird Design" by San Ildefonso artist Tse-Ye-Mu (Romando Vigil) Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C1170
Study other artworks and objects—click Collections Online at musnaz.org/collections/
#sundayartday #tseyemu #romandovigil #sanildefonsopueblo #birds
🌟 Native American Artists of the Colorado Plateau 🌟
Apply today to take part in the Heritage Festival of Arts and Culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona June 26-28, 2026. Learn more and apply: musnaz.org/all.../herit...
Our latest exhibit has a signature scent and so much more for you to explore. #nowonview
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We encourage you to stop by our new "Call of the Colorado Plateau" exhibition and experience this large detailed work up close. What is it you see?
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C2861 | musnaz.org/collections/
#sundaymorningart #havasucreekcanyon #canyonwalls #faces
🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
Our art feature today comes from American contemporary artist Merrill Mahaffey. "Havasu Redwall" from the MNA collection is a painting of a cliff face from Lower Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon.
🟠 Exhibit Alert 🟠
Step into a world of vast horizons, rugged canyons, and quiet solitude. Explore the profound impact of nature on the human spirit. Now showing!
If you encounter cultural sites while exploring, always respect the site by staying on trails, not touching artifacts or structures, keeping pets leashed, and leaving everything as you found it. These fragile places tell vital stories, removing anything or causing damage is illegal.
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Overhead view of snowy field with visible square and rectangular outlines of ancestral Hopi pueblo rooms.
After the recent storm, our archaeology team visited an ancestral Hopi site, where fresh snow reveals the outlines of rooms and plazas—part of a larger community that included smaller pueblos, agricultural fields, and petroglyphs—powerful reminders of life and connection on the Colorado Plateau.
21.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He was known for his Southwest imagery and later explorations of ledger-style art. His award-winning work is held in museum and private collections nationwide. Source: Art of the People | artofthepeople.org
18.01.2026 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Toddy was a Diné artist born into the Bit’ahnii (Folded Arms People Clan), born for Red Streak Across Forehead (Zuni), and the son of renowned painter Beatien Yazz. He earned art degrees from Utah State University and worked in acrylics, oils, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, and graphite, and more.
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🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"After the Card Game" by Irving Toddy (1951 – 2020)
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C1898
#navajoartist #irvingtoddy #dinéartist #sundayartday
🎨 Sunday Morning Art 🎨
"Navajo Girl Walking with her Doll" by Diné artist Beatien Yazz
Museum of Northern Arizona collection | C1864
What details or feelings stand out to you in this watercolor?
#sundaymorningart #beatienyazz #dinéartist #dolls
✨ New at the Museum of Northern Arizona ✨
Explore the tradition and artistry of Hopi katsina dolls in Katsintithu—Katsina Dolls, a new exhibit installation drawn from MNA’s extensive collection and selected in consultation with Hopi cultural leaders.
#newexhibition #katsinadolls #Hopi
Archaeologist and Historian David Purcell speaks in the Wagon Road to Mother Road exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 2025.
#Route66 #history Join us this Thursday, Jan. 8, 5:30 pm, at the Museum: Curator Talk: Wagon Road to Mother Road. Hear from MNA archaeologist and historian David Purcell, who has studied bygone stretches of the Beale Wagon Road and Route 66 in Arizona. musnaz.org/events/
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We’re honored to be included in Roger Naylor’s “10 Best Things to Do in Arizona in 2026." 🎉 Being recognized alongside so many incredible places and attractions across the state is truly exciting.
#amazingarizona #thingstodoin2026
🎉 Happy New Year from the Museum of Northern Arizona! 🎉
May your 2026 be filled with discovery and new adventures. We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Museum for another year of inspiration. “MNA Fetish” by Theodore Villa (Apache, Zapotec) MNA collection | C2360
#HappyNewYear #NewYear2026
Janice is wearing the Don’t Worry, Be Hopi T-shirt she invented. She and her husband, Joseph Day, now retired, founded a shop on Second Mesa called Tsakurshovi that sold these shirts as well as traditional Hopi, arts, crafts, and cultural items.
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