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Heard Museum 2301 N. Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004 Tel.: (602) 252-8848 Web: heard.org A Gathering of Weavers: Navajo Weavings Marketplace November 1, 10am - 4pm Meet some of the Southwest's finest Navajo weavers during this first-ever marketplace exclusively showcasing textiles. Watch weavers at work, see a film about Navajo weavings, enjoy book signings, demonstrations and get some early holiday shopping done. Free admission to marketplace; museum admission additional.   7th Annual Heard Museum Spanish Market Saturday & Sunday, November 8 - 9, 9:30am - 5pm Experience the Southwest’s vibrant Hispanic culture, when the Heard Museum presents the Valley’s only Spanish Market. Guests are invited to enjoy the beautiful grounds of the Heard Museum and shop the Market while listening to strolling musicians. Artwork by more than 75 artists from Arizona and New Mexico is the main attraction during this festive, casual and friendly event. Free admission. Sponsored by SRP. Sagrado Corazon, 2008 by Nicolas Otero, 2008 Spanish Market Signature Artist     La Casa Murillo: A Life-Size Shadow Box In the 18 years since Kathy and Patrick Murillo began their craft businesses, their passion for creating “happy art” has gained national recognition and today encompasses numerous product lines. Better known as the “Crafty Chica,” Kathy has developed a devoted following through her nationally syndicated arts and crafts column, books, television appearances and cruises. The couple runs two Web sites – ChicanoPopArt.com and CraftyChica.com – where they sell the more than 100 pieces they create each month in their home studio. Their most popular works are custom-made shadow boxes filled with bright-colored art, glitter and high-gloss finishes that depict room interiors. Although they help others incorporate crafty chic into their lives, the two artists haven’t had the time to decorate their own home in their trademark style. The Heard Museum exhibition La Casa Murillo: A Life-Size Shadow Box reflects their fantasy home. Kathy Murillo Public Grand Opening Celebration With First Friday October 3, 2008, 8pm - 10pm Entertainment by the RastaFarmers with Patrick Murillo Exhibition continues through August 2, 2009.   Underworlderness Through January 18, 2009 Navajo artist Tony Abeyta has worked in many media to create paintings using sand, layers of oil paints, encaustic wax and collage elements that include earth pigments, bronze and copper as well as gold leafing. However, this summer Abeyta will work with yet another media – charcoal and ink washes – to produce a drawing installation for his new exhibition Underworlderness. Abeyta plans to “abstractly render the Navajo underworld, draw the realm we live in today and draw our relationship to the cosmos.” The exhibition will also differ from his usual work in that Abeyta will draw and paint directly on the gallery wall to render the large – as large as 10 feet high – work of art. While he is painting, Abeyta’s 17-year-old son Gabriel will document his work on video and then create a short film utilizing reverse time-lapsed footage to reduce as much as four to six hours of painting to three minutes of video. Gabriel Abeyta will also incorporate original music into the video. Once completed, the video will be shown on several monitors in the gallery. Tony Abeyta has studied painting extensively, attending Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Art, Maryland Institute’s College of Art in Baltimore, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (for which he received a Ford Foundation Scholarship) and New York University. Most recently, Abeyta’s work was influenced by his travels to Europe, where he spent considerable time in Florence, Italy. While in Europe, he had the opportunity to see and study paintings by masters including large-scale works such as Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” In his early paintings, Abeyta used brilliant colors to depict magical journeys into Diné culture and Native spirituality. By 2002, his palette had changed to more subtle and somber earth tones. His black-and-white charcoal and ink drawings featured in Underworlderness are yet another provocative exploration by this creative artist. In the drawings and the mural, Abeyta will explore themes of plant life – seeds emerging from the ground – and abstractions of animals.   Old Traditions in New Pots: Silver Seed Pots from the Norman L. Sandfield Collection Norman L. Sandfield recently gifted the Heard Museum his collection of over 240 miniature silver seed pots. This superlative collection will be on exhibit at the Sandra Day O’Connor Gallery. The collection, which Sandfield assembled over a period of 28 years, ranges from traditional designs rcreated in silver to an interstellar outlook with work like the Star Wars series created by L. Eugene Nelson, Navajo. Sandfield also commissioned works from artists who normally do not create containers, and the results are stunning. Museum Hours Daily 9:30am - 5pm Admission $10 Adults $9 Seniors (65+) $5 Students with a valid student ID $3 Children (6-12) Children under 6 Free Public Guided Tours Daily at noon, 1:30pm and 3pm. Heard Museum members and American Indians: free.