Avian Forest Artwork, Bellevue

 I drove past a strange art object of a bird.  It advertised itself as Avian Forest and is on Bellevue Blvd. between Fontanelle Forest and Camp Wakonda.

Native American Artists and Art

 There are many excellent artists.  Native American art has a special flavor, often pointing towards past oppressions.  They also cary a different spirit.

James Luna:  Artist, performance artist

Michael Naranjo: Blind sculptor

Jamie Ocuma beadwork, footwear and fashion design

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

End of the Trail at Bass Pro Shop, Springfield, MO

Tonita Pena, San Ildefenso artist

Maria Antonia Martinez and family, pottery

R.C. Gorman Navajo Painter

Will Sampson: actor and artist

Acee Blue Eagle Oklahoma painter

Kiowa Five. 

Matika Wilbur. Photographer

Mabel Pike beadwork

Sergie Sovoroff maker of Iqyax models

Buffy Sainte-Marie  Singer, actress, artist

Native Art at San Juan Bautista. 

Native American Art at Mohave Museum of History and Art

Edmonia Lewis. sculptor

Amos Bad Heart Bull. A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux

Native American Art at Gateway Arch Museum

Jack Malotte. Duckwater

Sophie Allison, Irene Mike Duckwater basketweaving

Other Works of Art at the Conference Center

 The other art at the Conference Center is very symbolic and can trigger many emotions and thoughts.  It includes the tree of life, pioneers, and a representation of angels.  Paintings of Jesus

Paintings of Jesus at the Conference Center in Salt Lake

 Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are Christian as attested by these paintings.

other art in the Conference Center

Photo Book Review: Omaha Impressions

 Omaha Impressions, Photography and Text by Mike Whye, Far Country Press, Helena, MT, 2008.

This book offers a photographic journey into Omaha and its surroundings.  The book includes looks at open spaces, farms, green spaces etc., as well as looks at the buildings and skyscrapers of Omaha.  There is even snow boarder close in Iowa.  Pictures of waterways, lakes and ponds.  All presented in an artistic flare.  There is a picture of the gate at The Gerald Ford birthplace, covered in snow which is very nice to look at.  

There is a photograph of Mormon Hollow in Bellevue where the Mormons stayed for a few months on their journey west.  Pictures of uniformed men at fort Atkinson firing a cannon, and a picture of Fort Crook (now Offutt) in Bellevue.  

There are many picturs of statues including at Mormon Pioneer by cemetery by Avard Fairbanks and Martin Luther King down town by Littleton Alston, the pioneers by Blair Buswell at Pioneer Courage Park.  There are also views inside museums, Joslyn Art Museum and galleries, and Hot Shops Center.

Native American Art in the Gateway Arch Museum

 

pottery and necklaces

doll

art

More Temple Windows at Winter Quarters Temple

 There are 12 window murals in the south window of the temple.  They are each teaching a lesson about the immigration.  I was able to find nine pictures of the 12 on line.  The are much prettier in person with the light shining through them.  Some almost look like rainbows in the clouds.

The odometer to help measure distance traveled

Florence Mill

Brigham Young who lead the emigration

I assume Chief Big Elk who parlayed with Brigham Young near Cutler's Park

Handcart-- Didn't travel this way until 1856, 10 years later

Enlisting in thr Mormon Battalion

river crossing