Heard West museum grand opening

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Heard West museum grand opening

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The Heard West museum opens this weekend in Surprise.

Heard Museum West?s first long-term exhibition will be Our Stories: American Indian Art and Culture in Arizona. With more than 400 objects on display Our Stories will focus on the great cultural diversity of American Indians in Arizona. The exhibit will examine how Indian people have strong ties to the land from ancestral times to today. Our Stories will share American Indian reflections on their homeland, families, communities and art.

Our Stories will include traditional and contemporary artwork like a Nampeyo jar from the early 1900s, her daughter?s exquisitely painted bird wing jar from the 1970s, and a granddaughter?s piece inspired by the Mimbres tradition. The gallery will be filled with sweeping landscape images, portraits of artists and community members, and, like all Heard Museum exhibits, the first-person perspective.

During, the grand opening celebration, visitors will be able to explore the new museum?s exhibit gallery, classroom and Shop. Plus, there will be music and dance performances and artist demonstrations


Public Grand Opening, June 24, 2006, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Performances at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.
Artist demonstrations 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Heard Museum West, Civic Center Drive and Paradise Lane

COST: Admission is FREE to the public on this special day.
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