Native American artists featured Saturday during Nevada Day event at Stewart museum
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Great Basin Native artists will demonstrate their art from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 at the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum in Carson City in recognition of Nevada Day.
The museum, set on the site of a former federal boarding school for Native American children, tells the story of the students and people who lived and worked at the facility, in operation from 1890 to 1980. Visitors will need to follow the state’s mask mandate requiring everyone, including fully vaccinated individuals, to wear a mask in public indoor settings, as well as use hand sanitizer and maintain social distance.
Four Great Basin Native artists will be demonstrating their art at the Oct. 30 event in the museum’s galleries.
— Linda Eben Jones, Paiute and Yavapai, and a member of the Stewart Class of 1965, and her sister, Janice Eben Stump, Paiute, and a member of the Stewart Class of 1972, will be demonstrating how to make beaded bags and bracelets. Jones and Stump are members of the Great Basin Native Artists Collective.
— Loretta Burden, Toi-Ticutta (Fallon Paiute Shoshone), will demonstrate basketmaking and cradleboard-making. Burden is a member of the Great Basin Native Artists and the Great Basin Native Basket Weaver’s Association.
— Dale Bennett, Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, will demonstrate her exquisite beadwork that is for sale in the museum’s gift shop.
Additionally, all four artists will have work for sale at the Oct. 30 event.
Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum is at 1 Jacobsen Way in Carson City. The museum’s regular hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Museum admission is free. The museum accepts cash donations that are used to pay cultural teachers and artists an honorarium.