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portfolio • 47 moqui trading co. show Arvon Art Show Artists Moqui Trading Co. Show eter Jennings is excited to welcome the Moqui Trading Co. from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, to join this year's show at the Arvon Hotel. Moqui Trading Company, founder and owner Mike Bradford, will be selling items from his extensive collection of American Indian art and artifacts acquired over the last 40 years. "I'll have American Indian art from the 1870s to 1940s which incorporates Navajo classic wearing blankets, rugs, an 1870s Kiowa vest, beadwork, pine bags, a lot of old pawn jewelry, kachina dolls, and a line of ARVON WESTERN ART SHOW Event Schedule Thursday, March 16 Show Opens | 11am - 10 pm The Shamrockers | 6 - 9 pm Friday, March 17 Show Opens | 11am - 10 pm Live Music throughout day 11 am - 10 pm Saturday, March 18 Show Opens | 11am - 10 pm Wylie & the Wild West | 6 - 9:30 pm Arvon Art Show 116 First Ave. S. Ace Powell Gary Byrd Don Dernovich Chuck Fulcher Cindy Betka Sara Foster Mimi Grant Richard Matoon Jerry McGahan Joe Netherwood Steven Oiestad David Powers Fredric Remington Robert Rodriguez OC Seltzer Steve Carlyle Smith Laurie Stevens Janet Sullivan Echo Ukrainetz Ron Ukrainetz Jackie VanHeel Brenda Wolf Shirle Wempner Diane Whitehead By Susie Wall and powerful side. My polar bears are my maternal calming animal. My horses are my free spirit," she says. Brenda has been participating in Western Art Week for the last 25 years. "I love having people come and see my work for the first time," she says. She freely admits that she gets "star-struck" herself when given a chance to meet artists during the week that she admires. Ron Ukrainetz is a historical artist that paints scenes depicting the history of the West. He uses oil paints and a unique method in which he engraves on clayboard, then glazes the engravings with acrylic. is method is highly detailed and takes time. He once spent six months on one piece. Ron says of his interest in combining art and history, "Art has long been the chronicler when there were no words. As a historical artist, relating what I know and what I know to be factual is a very important element." Ron enjoys traveling around Montana, especially when creating his Lewis and Clark pieces so he can "feel the art from the inside out." Turquoise and silver bracelet MOQUI TRADING CO. SHOW Event Schedule Wednesday, March 15 Show Opens | 10 am - 8 pm Thursday, March 16 Show Opens | 10 am - 8 pm Friday, March 17 Show Opens |10 am - 9 pm Saturday, March 18 Show Opens |10 am - 9 pm Sunday, March 19 Show Opens |10 am - Noon Darkhorse Hall and Wine Snug 116 First Ave. S. Lower Level of The Arvon Hotel Hopi Kachina Doll P contemporary Zuni and Navajo jewelry," says Mike. Mike explains that "Moqui" is a Navajo term from the Hopi, which means "old ones." He founded the company in 1984 in Coonwood, Arizona, aer becoming fascinated with the Hopi people and their culture following a visit to the Hopi reservation in 1981. He soon began bringing bird feathers and animal hides to the Hopis to trade for Hopi arts and cras, Kachina dolls, and poery. He also befriended some long-time traders in the Verde Valley and Presco, Arizona, who took him on trips to the Navajo Reservation and Santa Fe. Visitors to the show can view and purchase these exquisite items as well as bring items to Mike that they are interested in selling. "at happens quite oen," says Mike. "People will come up to me and say, 'My mom has something she le me, and we're looking to sell it.' It's exciting to see what people come up with." Meet Mike and check out all that Moqui Trading Co. has to offer in the lower level of the Arvon Hotel inside the Darkhorse Hall & Wine Snug.

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