75th Annual Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture

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75th Annual Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture Flagstaff, Arizona July 5-6

The Museum of Northern Arizona's 75th Annual Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture immerses visitors in Hopi language and artistry, revealing the very essence of today's Hopi people and the ideas that pervade their daily life.

The festival was started by Museum founders Harold and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton in an effort to encourage the survival of Hopi arts and crafts. The festival is now a tradition of Hopi families.

The Hopi are descendants of the ancient Puebloan people whose cultural history is documented throughout the Four Corners region for thousands of years. The Hopi villages are located on mesas in northeastern Arizona. Traditionally, Hopi are dryland farmers who specialize in the cultivation of corn, beans, and squash. Hopi blue corn is adapted to the arid climate and plays an integral part in Hopi ceremonial life. More than
55 artisans travel from the Hopi mesas to share with visitors their lifeways and artistic creations.

By providing a deeper insight into the Hopi culture, this festival fosters communication and the exchange of ideas and offers an in-depth mix of art, music, performances and Heritage Insight presentations. Authentic expressions of cultural traditions and the voices of knowledgeable educators join together, creating cultural understanding and a forum for dialogue.

Festival visitors gain insight from carvers, painters, jewelers, potters, quilters and basket and textile weavers as well as through cultural presentations, storytelling, music and dancing.

Take a taste of piki or Hopi bread baked in outside ovens. Watch Hopi pottery being shaped, painted and traditionally fired. Walk the Museum's Rio de Flag Nature Trail with a Hopi medicine woman. And take part in insightful discussions about the Hopi values of humility, cooperation, respect, balance and earth stewardship.

The Museum of Northern Arizona is one of the great regional museums in the world, surrounded by tremendous geological, biological and cultural resources in one of Earth's most spectacular landscapes.

Other attractions in the area include Grand Canyon National Park, Hopi Reservation, Wauptki, Sunset Crater, Walnut Canyon and Montezuma Castle National Monuments, Lowell Observatory, Sedona

CONTACT Lisa Doskocil, Museum of Northern Arizona, (928) 774-5213

WEBSITE http://www.musnaz.org/

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